Using Facebook and Twitter Trends to Find High Traffic Blog Topics

Social media has come along way. At their inceptions, Facebook and Twitter provided a new way for people to socialize. Tweets and posts became the trendy way to communicate. We discussed our hectic day, our overbearing bosses, and some of the things that piqued our interests. We even let people know when we were going [...]

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5 Tools to Help You Manage and Grow Your Social Media Effort Online

80% of Americans use a social network site, and they spend more time on Facebook than any other United States based website. Businesses of all sizes and across all industries have wholeheartedly embraced the social media phenomenon. More than 70% of businesses polled reported website traffic increases once they implement a social media marketing plan. [...]

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Social Media in for a Valuation Crisis

Published on 06 December 2011 by in Social Media

Social Media in for a Valuation Crisis

After the setback to Pandora Media and Groupon whose price slipped below the IPO issue price Zynga has scaled down its valuation, showing deep concerns in the social media. Will the downtrend persist ?

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No Secrets at Facebook

Published on 22 November 2011 by in All Things Search, Social Media

No Secrets at Facebook

Irish authroties have started audit proceedings of Facebook data after it was revealed that Facebook collected extensive personal data on both users and non-users.

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Ending Social Media Marketing Confusion

Consider this scenario: You know you’re supposed to get on Twitter to somehow promote your website. So you start randomly tweeting out links to a product or service page on your website. But who is going to care? Sure, you could do some Twitter searches and find people who are asking their own Twitter followers [...]

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Is Randi’s Idea Bigger than Facebook?

Did Randi Zuckerberg leave Facebook to start a rival network or create an independant and important ally of FB in the field of visual media ?

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Google+ hands tech blogs a shocker

Google may be right to have yanked off the powerful tech blogs off its social networking site, but its strong arm policy did not win many friends.

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A few weeks ago I learned that I was chosen as one of the “Top 25 Online Marketers to Follow on Twitter” by David Vogelpohl over at Marketing Pilgrim. (I’d like to thank my family, my 2nd grade teacher…) While it was cool to be chosen, more interesting to me was how David characterized my [...]

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5 Quick LinkedIn Wins for Your Business

It is clear that the Internet is now an essential part of establishing businesses of any kind and size. The Internet is fast becoming the main medium for business networking, researching and collecting useful information, and website promotion among other things. It is unbelievable how much convenience and efficiency conducting business dealings online bring to [...]

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A Twitter Knockoff Has China Talking

Sina Weibo took advantage of a social media vacuum to become the top micro-blogging service in China

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Constant Contact Buys Social CRM Startup Bantam Live For $15 Million In Cash

Online marketing company Constant Contact has acquired social CRM startup Bantam Live for $15 million in cash, subject to certain post-closing adjustments.

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Facebook apps on home address, phone could shatter privacy

Last weekend, the social media giant Facebook unleashed tempting apps baiting its members into divulging their mobile phone numbers and current home addresses to application developers. Access my basic information at the Facebook app that now included name, address, mobile phone number, your network would be made available on the developer platform through a number [...]

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Facebook To Layer Mail, As Google Wants To Layer Social Media

For long Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been saying that the search engine giant merely wants to layer social media into its e mail service and has no intention of entering the segment in a big way. Now Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday revealed a new messaging service at San Francisco that will layer [...]

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The Analytics Engine To Measure Your Klout

Move over Search Engines. The time has come for the new generation analytics engine. Understanding the influence metric, or the measure of influence is the latest kid on the block at the social media marketplace. Klout. the two year old start up from the San Francisco bay area set up by Joe Fernandez and Binh [...]

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