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"Twitter Is Amazing, Facebook Pretty Much Useless"

RealClearMarkets - Twitter Is Amazing, Facebook Pretty Much Useless: " . . . .Twitter will end up a multi-generational force, like newspapers, radio and the still dominant television industry. The SFO coverage Twitter facilitated -- you really can't say curate -- is a classic example of why Dorsey's creation will live and, over the long run, Mark Zuckerberg's will die." (read more at link above)

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Ways to Optimize Your Yelp Listing

The 3 Most Effective Ways to Optimize Your Yelp Listing:" . . . 1) Claim Your Listin . . . 2) Read Your Reviews . . . Read the reviews, make the changes, and improve your offering. A business with a great product and service will have a positive rating. You’ll see the results on your Yelp listing faster than you might think. 3) Encourage Reviews . . . (read more at link above)

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Facebook Doesn't Want You To See This Number?

The Number Facebook Doesn't Want You To See: " . . . . There is, of course, one group privy to a glance behind the curtain. Facebook advertisers and group administrators can see post stats, including how many people “saw this post” — the key hidden metric. But revealing audience size, however large or small, is crucial to get potential advertisers to spend money, and Facebook doesn’t have to worry about potential advertisers feeling ashamed. It’s not personal, just business. The advertisers are the ones buying, Facebook is the one selling, and we’re just the goods. When it comes to complex, data-rich systems like Facebook, we see only a sliver of the full picture. It’s not the whole story, just the part we need." (read more at link above)

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Managing Your Social Media Accounts

Managing Your Social Media Accounts | DLA Piper - JDSupra: "Imagine a situation where you have a small business that is planning a major event at a sports venue and needs to utilize a variety of social media channels to publicize the event and garner support for it. Such a business may engage a third party to assist it in managing its social media presence on Facebook and Twitter in order to maximize their ability to generate ticket sales and interest in the event. Your small business turns over its passwords and username to the third party so that they can perform the agreed upon services. Several months after the event and after payment for these services, the parties get into a fee dispute over unrelated services and the third party changes the username of the business to the third party’s name on Facebook, then changes the passwords for Facebook and other social media accounts. Your small business is effectively locked out of its social media accounts." (read more at link above)

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Do Not Dump Your Website for Just a Social Media Presence

Social Media is Great, But Don't Dump Your Website: " . . . Social media is everywhere. If you want to connect with consumers, especially younger ones, it’s imperative that you get out there and use the various social platforms to market your business. However, going online and networking with potential customers will only take you so far. As Forbes notes, it’s a myth to say that social media can replace your website. You still need both for your marketing efforts to be effective. Think “hub and spoke.”. . ."

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Teens and Facebook

Teen Tech - Business Insider: "Most of the teens are on Facebook, but they don't use it as heavily as the other apps mentioned above. My cousin did use it to connect with his new college roommate, but I suspect the fact that the teens' parents and older cousins like me are on Facebook doesn't exactly entice them to share their activity on it very much."

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Remarkable Properties of Mythological Social Networks

The Remarkable Properties of Mythological Social Networks | MIT Technology Review: "Ten years ago, few people would have heard of a social network. Today, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn permeate our lives. They show us how we are linked to each other and how we are more broadly placed within society. What fascinates scientists is that the general properties of social networks seem to be invariant regardless of where they crop up. For example, one of the remarkable properties of social networks is their small world character. This means it is possible to go from one part of a network to any other part in a small number of steps (this is where the phrase 6 degrees of separation comes from). . . ."(read more at link above)

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Twitter Two-Factor Authentication May Not Stop Account Hijackings

Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication Can't Stop Account Hijackings: "In fact, two-factor won't even help organizations who don't want to be hijacked the way AP, The Onion, and The Guardian were earlier this month by the Syrian Electronic Army. Most organizations share accounts, where multiple staff members post using the same account. They won't be able to turn on two-factor because staff members don't have access to the same phone, Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, noted on the Naked Security blog."

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A House with Its Own Twitter Feed

In San Francisco, a House with Its Own Twitter Feed | MIT Technology Review: "As weird as a Twitter-enabled house might seem, it offers a glimpse of the future. As interest grows in the “Internet of things”—the idea of adding network connectivity to all sorts of normal objects—everything from desk lamps to ovens may soon come Internet-ready."

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Teens Migrating to Twitter

Poll: Teens Migrating to Twitter - ABC News: "Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations. . . ."

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Pinterest Teams With Brands

Pinterest Teams With Brands for 'More Useful' Pins | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: "Pinterest is about more than photos of your favorite hairstyles and new exercise regimes. The social corkboard today launched a new branding function for products, recipes, and movies. Pinterest partnered with popular websites to provide users with more details about certain pins. Clothes and furniture, for example, may now come with pricing and available locations for purchase, while recipe pins include cook time, ingredients, and serving sizes. Additionally, movie pins provide content ratings, cast members, and more details."

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Tips for building a better LinkedIn profile

LinkedIn: 3 tips for building a better profile - CBS News: "Use LinkedIn Today--LinkedIn Today allows you to customize your page through subscriptions to channels for real-time news coming from influential people, periodicals and industries. Topics range from social impact to higher education to innovation to big ideas. "Adding these channels will keep the conversation growing and evolving on LinkedIn and at the office," says Williams.". . . ."

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Tumblr adds More Ads and Rearranges Buttons

Tumblr Brings More Ads To Users’ Dashboards, Rearranges Buttons & Teens Freak Out | TechCrunch: "Already the user base was distressed over the impending acquisition, some leaving in droves for WordPress after the fact, and today a minor change to the Tumblr dashboard involving the relocation of the Reblog and Notes buttons has them hand-wringing again. Those changes rolled out yesterday, and today have reached 100 percent of Tumblr’s user base. The company says the buttons were moved for consistency between mobile and web."

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The Wrong Friends Might Sink Your Credit

As Banks Start Nosing Around Facebook and Twitter, the Wrong Friends Might Just Sink Your Credit | Betabeat: "He predicts that banks will soon start asking customers to verify their social media profiles. Not everyone has a social media presence, of course, so submitting your Twitter handle will first be pitched as a way to provide customer support or account alerts, which will later open the door for “more complex products,” Mr. King said."

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Strange Facebook Home

The Strangeness of Facebook Home - Facebook’s new interface for smartphones is at odds with how the world uses computer--

Review: Facebook Home | MIT Technology Review: " . . . Facebook has a single model of the world, unapologetically monolithic: the canonical graph of the relationships between more than a billion human beings. If the company is to grow, it must insert itself between people and their smartphones; there are still simply too many moments spent watching things, or reading things, or making things, that it does not own."

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Twitter opens up its analytics platform

Twitter opens up its analytics platform, lets everyone review the performance of their tweets for free - The Next Web:  The change was spotted by Christopher Penn, vice president of marketing technology at SHIFT Communications earlier this week, as well as Danny Olson, a digital strategist at Weber Shandwick. Users simply need to head to the Twitter Ads dashboard and click on the ‘Analytics’ tab at the top of the page to access the new features.

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LinkedIn becoming just another social network

LinkedIn becoming more like other social networks
Los Angeles Times
Looking to become a destination that people visit more regularly, LinkedIn has begun rolling out a new feature that lets individuals and companies post photos, documents and presentations in status updates. "Whether it's a thought provoking presentation ...

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NFL Teams and Social Media

NFL Teams and Social Media: Who's Hot, Who's Not - Blogging The ...
By One.Cool.Customer
Social media has changed the way NFL fans interact with teams and players. We take a quantitative look at which teams are doing particularly well with their social media efforts, and which aren't.
Blogging The Boys - All Posts

PS4 has twice as much social media attention as Xbox 720
PlayStation Universe
A study by Fizziology, a leading social media tracker for consumer products, reports that PlayStation 4 has almost twice as much social media buzz as Microsoft's next-generation system. Fizziology monitors discussions and aggregates topics from ...

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Crowdsourcing Critical Thinking to Verify Social Media


Crowdsourcing Critical Thinking to Verify Social Media During ...
By Patrick Meier
My colleagues and I at QCRI and the Masdar Institute will be launching Verily in the near future. The project has already received quite a bit of media coverage—particularly after the Boston marathon bombings. So here's an update.
iRevolution

How To Make Social Media Day Official in Your City - Mashable
In this article we break down step-by-step how to obtain a Social Media Day proclamation from your local government.
mashable.com/2013/05/16/social-media-day-proclamation/

Google+ Redesign: This Week in Social Media | Social Media ...
Social media news and new developments making social media marketing easier. (Google+ new design, Google Hangout app, Pin Alerts, LinkedIn privacy ...
www.socialmediaexaminer.com/google-redesign-this-week-in-...


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