Wall Street Journal (blog)
If global enterprises fully embraced social media then between $900 billion and $1.3 trillion of economic value could be unlocked each year, a panel at London's Social Media week was told Monday. That is equivalent to just under half the gross domestic ...
Social media evangelism
ScienceBlogs (blog)
It's that time of the year. Spots for ScienceOnline are a hotter commodity than Justin Bieber concert tickets amongst the pre-teen crowd; The Open Laboratory 2011 has just come out in print; and academics are discussing the utility of social media in ...
Social Media Week- “The Changing Face of Employment”
ChicagoNow (blog)
Social Media Week kicks off today around the world. It will occur simultaneously in Barcelona, Bogotá, Chicago, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Judah, London, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghais, Torino and Vancouver. It brings together area companies, ...
ChicagoNow (blog)
UberVu's Social Media Filtering Tool For Big Brands Is Now Available
TechCrunch
UbueVu tries to go beyond social media monitoring by providing actual suggestions of things for social media managers to do. Today its Signals service, which we covered previously, is out of beta. The service also comes with a completely redesigned ...
How Companies And People Create Value From Social Media
Fast Company
Things we once considered opposing forces--doing right by people and delivering results, collaborating and keeping focus, having a social purpose and making money--are really not in opposition. They never have been. But we need a more sophisticated...
Fast Company
8 Key Insights from a Social Media Masterclass
Forbes
To learn more about social media success, I spoke with Chris Thomas who heads up research at Media Measurement Ltd, a specialist metrics company based in London. Chris helped me recently by producing an analysis of Apple's reputation after the ...
Forbes
Obama goes Hollywood on social media
NBCNews.com
mitt romney 's 47% remark is still lighting up social media . one week after it went viral. jansing & company just got new numbers from visible measures. those video clips have been viewed nearly 9 million times. they've generated 50,000 comments so ...
NBCNews.com
Madame Tussauds Hollywood Launches First-Ever Social Media Contest ...
Sacramento Bee
24, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Madame Tussauds Hollywood, the legendary wax museum, announced today the official kick off of its "Social Media Figure Contest" during an opening event for Social Media Week Los Angeles, a worldwide event exploring the ...
Media Alert: MWW Hosts Social Media Week Panels On The Power Of Brand ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2012 — /PRNewswire/-- MWW (www.mww.com), one of the top ten global independent public relations firms, will host two events during Social Media Week in Los Angeles and Chicago on September 27. The Chicago panel, hosted by ...
How Social Media Is Empowering Women in Haiti
By Neha Prakash
Actress Maria Bello has created We Advance University, a site and mobile app to connect and empower women in Haiti to get needed services.
Mashable » US & World
Social Media Will Distract You At Work [Infographic] | The Blog Herald
By James Johnson
Red e App wants social media users to realize that their daily work time is being interrupted constantly because of Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms. In its findings the company found that the average working is interrupted by social ...
The Blog Herald
Social Media for Professional Development: Workshop & Webinar
By Jane Hart
Workshop runs 1 - 31 October 2012 Led by Jane Hart In this online workshop at the Social Learning Centre, we will be looking at how to use a number of different social media tools for your own professional development purposes. This online ...
Jane's Extracts
Why You Can't Sell with Social Media (And 3 Things to Do Instead ...
By FixCourse
Social media can give your company many different benefits.It can increase awareness and introduce you to new people. It can be used to help customer service, and follow-up with disgruntled customers. It can also be used to get the elusive, ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
B2B Social Media Marketing Tips for Success from ...
By Lee Odden
As customers evolve and change the way that they find and consume information, marketers must innovate their approach to meet customers where they're looking, especially in the social mediaworld. Business to Business marketing can ...
Online Marketing Blog
5 tips on how to improve your Klout score | Socialmedia.biz
The company is best known for its Klout score, a a number between one and 100 that represents an individual's overall social media influence based on his or ...
socialmedia.biz/.../tips-on-how-to-improve-your-klout-score/
Google Toying With A New Hangout UI With Bigger Icons, Pointing To A ...
TechCrunch
Google has been sprucing up its Hangouts video calling service with an updated API for features like private messages, and the ability to block people and change a Hangout from private to public. A video celebrating Hangouts gives us a glimpse of even ...
Is Google+ the Next Big Thing for SEO?
ABCN's Officing Today
There is so much talk about Google+ lately, I decided to go to our friends at SEO, Inc. and find out more. Certainly given today's dynamic business center environment, we need to acquaint ourselves with the communications platforms available and then ...
ABCN's Officing Today
Google+ Claims 100 Million Active Users
Midsize Insider
Google asserted that its social website, Google+ now has 100 million regular users, defined as users who visit the site at least monthly. This traffic may remain modest compared to Facebook traffic, in spite of the latter's well-publicized stumbles ...
Google+ trends: Emmy Awards, Apple
Yahoo! Philippines News
Apple's latest OS update, iOS 6, which replaces Google Maps, the previous default mapping program on the iPhone, with Apple's own maps service, continues to attract attention on Google+. The mapping service, which has been the subject of various ...
Google+ Local Photos Show !!!
Search Engine Roundtable
Instead, Google was showing exclamation points in place of the photos. It seems like Google just fixed the issue with this. Jade W. from Google wrote: Seeing a bunch of reports that exclamation points are appearing on local Google+ pages instead of photos.
Search Engine Roundtable
Cadbury to launch secret flavour on Google+
Marketing Week
It will use Google's Hangout On-Air broadcast feature to allow nine fans from around the world to sample the flavour as well stream the event simultaneously to its own YouTube channel. Each fan will be sent the bar in advance and have been instructed ...
Marketing Week
Google plays down "Facebook competitor" ambitions
IT PRO
Google+ allows users to group friends into Circles based on their shared interests, swap information with them, and invite them to take part in video calls using the site'sHangout technology. People always expected us to be building a Facebook ...
IT PRO
Facebook's stock falls as Zuckerberg effect wears off
CNET
Shares of Facebook, which have been on a tear since CEO Mark Zuckerberg sought to calm Wall Street during an in an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt less than two weeks ago, are getting slammed today. The stock was down 10 percent in midday trading, ...
Referee Halsey suffers Twitter abuse
ESPN
Referee Mark Halsey has received abuse on Twitter after sending off Jonjo Shelvey and giving Manchester United a controversial penalty in their victory over Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday. The abuse has been condemned as "beneath contempt" by the ...
ESPN
Twitter Will Fight to Keep Data Private
Escapist Magazine
Twitter claims that court-ordered transparency put it "between a rock and a hard place." TwitterCEO Dick Costolo, speaking at the Online News Association's San Francisco conference, said that revealing Malcolm Harris' personal Tweets wasn't something ...
Twitter Hack Pushes Facebook Link Direct Message Malware
PC Magazine
Twitter users, beware: A new malware campaign may leave your followers with a virus if they click on a link to a bogus Facebook photo or video that appears to be from you. Sophos analyst Graham Cluley reported today that a number of Naked Security blog ...
Twitter Miner Dataminr Raises $13 Million
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Telis Demos. Dataminr, which turns Tweets into high-frequency trading news and has been tagged as one of the Twitter CEO's favorite startups, has just raised $13 million from institutional and private investors, the company announced. AFP/Getty ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook taps Bango for mobile payments through carriers
CNET
The mobile payments company announced its Facebook partnership earlier today, saying that folks who use the social network's mobile app can now purchase digital goods through carrier billing. Users will be asked to confirm a purchase, and then the ...
Friend mining: Facebook preps for social search future
CBS News
(CNET) No other company in the world holds as much personal data as Facebook, which puts it in an ideal position to cull data from your friends and friends-of-friends, and even those you don't know, to bring you answers to your deepest questions. Such ...
Inside Facebook's lab: A mission to make hardware open source
ZDNet
Amir Michael, Facebook's manager of system engineering, is stood in the company's hardware lab trying not to get in the way of the assorted engineers, wheelie-chairs and bottles of water scattered around the room, describing Facebook's attempt to ...
ZDNet
Facebook Stops Asking Users To 'Snitch' On Friends With Fake Names
Forbes
Regardless, Facebook says the survey is over now, perhaps in part because of theTwitter user who tweeted this — the snitch who snitched on the snitching survey.
Forbes
Meet The 30 Biggest Advertisers On Facebook
Business Insider
We asked internal sources at Facebook, as well as external executives atFacebook's client companies, to tell us what they knew about Facebook's top spenders. Our friends at ComScore also supplied us with some incredibly useful information about ad ...
Business Insider
Facebook Mobile Payments Via Carrier Billing (And Bango) Live In ...
By Ingrid Lunden
Another step ahead for Facebook's strategy to make more money out of its mobile business: the company is accepting mobile payments for its mobile web service via carrier billing in the U.S., UK and Germany and it has now been confirmed that it is Bango powering the service. The option of letting users bill services like virtual gifts and game credits to their mobile ... View Staff Page Follow me on twitter. Ingrid is a reporter for TechCrunch, joining February 2012, based out of London.
TechCrunch
Using Twitter to Promote the Fall TV Season - NYTimes.com
By By TANZINA VEGA
Lots of people are accustomed to watching television while simultaneously posting updates to Twitteror Facebook or looking up information online, or what is known in media circles as “the second screen experience.” But why watch two ...
Media Decoder
10 Tips and Tricks for Powerful Twitter Search
By Amy-Mae Elliott
SEE ALSO: 10 Facebook Tips for Power Users. Take a look though our handy hints in the slideshow above. Let us know in the comments below about any Twitter search tips you'd like to share. Print Story Email Story Reprints ...
Mashable » Social Media
Jimmy Kimmel And Tracy Morgan's Twitter Prank At The Emmys ...
By Perez Hilton
Jimmy Kimmel and Tracy Morgans Twitter prank at the Emmys actually worked. ... About 25,000 tweets instantly hit the Twitterverse, as Twitter TV revealed: OMG 25,000 tweets instantly thanks to OMG TRacy Morgan #Emmys — thanks ...
PerezHilton
Pro athletes on Twitter: league execs say marketing outweighs ...
By Jeff John Roberts
Former executives from the NBA and the NFL say that teams and leagues should encourage players to use Twitter -- even if some foreseeable headaches occur. The marketing benefits are worth it and the number of gaffes may subside as ...
GigaOM
Cirque du Soleil (Cirque) on Twitter
Cirque du Soleil. @Cirque. We are Cirque du Soleil - we currently have 21 productions worldwide. Follow us for insider info & promotions! Las Vegas, NV ...
https://jp.twitter.com/Cirque
Twitter Goodies | iCrunched
Hi Friends, Twitter Goodies Profile Widget + Twitter Goodies Search Widget + Official Tweet ...Facebook Members · Twitter Goodies · Foursquare Integration ...
icrunched.co/twitter-goodies/
LinkedIn endorsements offers more credibility behind skill sets
ZDNet (blog)
The Endorsements feature is essentially another form of offering a reference on a LinkedIn profile. It also gives more credibility to skills and expertise listed on a profile in comparison to what might be listed on a paper resume. Similar features ...
There's Something Big Missing From LinkedIn
Forbes
This means that instead of opening up a window and searching LinkedIn or Facebook or Twitter for a contact's page, feed or stream, the application will automatically do that for you and display it inside. It's really not that big a deal. And it's not ...
TRENDING WITH TX: K-Pop, Pinterest, Santigold, volunteering
StandardNet
Pinterest is a social networking site where users can “pin” things that they are interested in onto boards that they create. It is essentially the best of all things in the blogging world. All of the best recipes, crafts, cleaning tips and more are on ...
StandardNet
5 Ways to Use Pinterest for Your Job Search
Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
Brie Weiler Reynolds is the content and social media manager at FlexJobs, the award-winning site for telecommuting and flexible job listings, and a former career advisor. At FlexJobs, Brie offers job seekers career and work-life balance advice through ...
Pinterest Packs a Punch
Business 2 Community
Pinterest, inarguably one of the fastest rising stars of the social media world this year (and the subject of a FairWinds Perspectives study this past spring), filed a comprehensive lawsuit against Chinese cybersquatter Qian Jin, citing a host of ...
5 Ways CPG Brands Can Use Pinterest
Chief Marketer
Did you know that 19% of online women use Pinterest, according to Pew Research? With such a large percentage of women using the platform, it's hard for brands to ignore Pinterest's marketing potential. Retailers and women-oriented magazines made a big ...
LinkedIn Debuts Endorsements As A Lightweight Way To Recommend A ...
Centralia Chronicle
LinkedIn Debuts Endorsements As A Lightweight Way To Recommend A Professional Contact's Skills. Posted: Monday, September 24, 2012 7:30 am. LinkedIn Debuts Endorsements As A Lightweight Way To Recommend A Professional Contact's Skills ...
Develop your own high-quality list for marketing efforts
Bizjournals.com (blog)
And while connecting with prospects via Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and even Pinterest may be the wave of the future, any good marketer still knows that the key to running an effective marketing program in 2012 is having a fresh, well-targeted list ...
Pinterest proliferation – how and what brands are pinning
Marketing magazine Australia (blog)
Last month, much was made of the international study published by Experian, the global information services company, on the meteoric growth rates enjoyed by niche social networks. Across the globe, Pinterest and Instagram massively increased their...
Marketing magazine Australia (blog)
More consumers spending time on Pinterest and Tumblr
Brafton
According to Compete.com, both Pinterest and Tumblr's users bases are growing, and visitors spend more time on these sites than ever before. The data that Pinterest.com has seen steady growth in 2012, topping off at more than 21 million unique visitors ...
5 Ways to Use Pinterest for Your Job Search
By Brie Weiler Reynolds
As a cultural phenomenon, Pinterest has many more uses than inspiration -- just search "my resume" on Pinterest to see.
Mashable » Social Media
LinkedIn Debuts Endorsements As A Lightweight Way To ...
By Leena Rao
Professional social network LinkedIn has allowed you to write recommendations for contacts for some time now, but usually these involve actually writing out a recommendation that can posted on a contact's profile. Today the network is ...
TechCrunch
LinkedIn Announces Endorsements: Professional Facebook Likes
By Emil Protalinski
LinkedIn today announced Endorsements, a new feature that allows you to recognize professionals for their expertise. Endorsements launches today in English across four countries: the United States, India, New Zealand, and Australia.
The Next Web
How to Schedule your Pins on Pinterest | Jeffbullas's Blog
By Tehmina Zaman
So you've heard the buzz about Pinterest, set up your account and optimized your Pinterest page. Congratulations! But what now? If you're like most people you've probably jumped straight intoPinterest and quickly discovered that pinning ...
Jeffbullas's Blog
LinkedIn Adds Skill and Expertise Endorsements | WebProNews
By Sean Patterson
The Endorsements feature launches today in English, but LinkedIn stated it will be available in allLinkedIn-supported languages in “the next few weeks.” A Slideshare presentation accompanies the blog post and shows how the feature is ...
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