The Little Things in Social Media
Although I’m usually knee-deep in the latest toys of social media, I like LinkedIn. Yes, you heard me. For all the criticism that LinkedIn receives, I find it to be one of the most stable social sites, consistently growing, and abound with reliable information. But, back to the little things, the ones which really make Linkedin special to me.
Facebook Fan Pages Now Allow Location and Language Targeting
Facebook just started adding an option for your brand pages to choose your audience visibility on wall postings: While this may seem like not that big a deal, think of the possibilities. Users targeting multiple countries and languages can now have multi-purpose...What to Expect from PPC Accounts During The Holidays
‘Tis the season to be selling. So many sites make a large percentage of their income during these last 6 weeks of the year. For some, it’s even make-or-break–especially with the year we’ve had. For those of you who spend your day running a...Subreddit Takeover: A Social Media Coup
In what may be the first of its kind in the social media world, the little used and subscribed /r/football subreddit of Reddit.com was overthrown by the /r/soccer subreddit. Though things seem to have died down, yesterday’s events can only be described as a social media coup.
Twitter Adds (and Removes) Retweets (Beta)
Some of you may have noticed a new Twitter Retweet logo marking your friends’ RT’s. Since users, the originators of the term, have been utilizing “RT” (followed by the author’s @name) almost as long as Twitter’s been around, and...Plurk Community: You’re Doing it Wrong
Image via CrunchBase I remember when Plurk first came out. At first glance its user interface was different but once you got to spending some time on the site, it was pretty cool. As luck would have it, Plurk also came around when Twitter was having some of its...Facebook Share Released: Facebook Takes on Digg and Tweetmeme
As Facebook comes in to become one of the largest population groups in the world, it still finds its own flaws. Thanks to what can easily be assumed to be the influence of other social media sites, such as Twitter and Digg, the folks at Facebook have added yet another...Homeless But Not Humorless
While visiting Austin, Texas, I came across this ingenious sign being utilized by a homeless man. Judging by the fact he had set this sign down and was instead using a second sign he’d fashioned, the one pictured here may just have been too snarky for the passersby.