Category: Social & Community

Pinterest had been beta testing their “Promoted Pins” advertising product and found some great success with it. They now plan to roll this out to all of their partners at the start of 2015.
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Almost half of us have visited a brand’s Facebook Page and about 40% of the one of us who did, clicked like.

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We all remember the missing child pamphlets and milk cartons beginning in the 70’s and 80’s as they began the first outreach for missing and abducted children.

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Gifs, those animated images that are everywhere on the web except Facebook, can now be made by anyone.
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Facebook is creating the opportunity to push social media promotion as a step higher up in the conversion funnel of a business.
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“Fear of Missing Out” is a real thing – the acronym “FOMO” has been included in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Many people know that having lots of fans is great, but getting them to actually see what you post is the real goal.
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As reported in SERoundtable, Google Trends will now display the Top 200 videos that are currently trending on YouTube.
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A new video social network named Ocho is being launched which promotes the ability for users to easily create and share short (8 second) high quality videos.
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Someone probably told @UPS social media department about how influencer outreach is a truly awesome branding tool.
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Ello is generating some buzz lately as a new social media platform specifically positioned as the “anti-Facebook.” http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ello-new-facebook-killer-15-minute-fame-flame/1
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With as much industry noise out there as there is today, how can you stay our climb to the top when your content for social media outlets has been maximized or has become stale?
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http://www.searchenginejournal.com/use-twitter-build-amazon-wishlist-using-hashtag/116829/
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If you are looking for the answer, there’s none yet… Google Plus is a good student of his older sister Google Search. Why not just clearly say what went wrong?
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It’s a pretty big news for one reason only, I’d say: It proves that Google is trying their best to give
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Just now the bbc are showing on TV the news that Isabella Sorley is going to be jailed for 12 weeks and John Nimmo sentenced to eight weeks for sending abusive tweets.
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The social media world is getting mature to the point where we can no longer ignore the trolls, because, well, they exist…
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As always be careful what you say on facebook!
The old Bailey UK (court) today heard how a man was tracked using facebook and hacked to death with a axe!
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It appears Google is now looking at taking all that data they have on you and using it to inform the updates / actions of some kind of social meda automation spam software with one of
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Mark Traphagen shared some interesting thoughts on what Google’s aggressive integration of Google Plus comments (Blogger and Y
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