All Entries in the "News" Category
Google vs Facebook
The war between Google and Facebook is becoming much more of a topic trend among industry watchers. After all, the impact has ripple effects that impact everything from SEO to social media marketing, PPC advertising, and much more. Previously, ‘links’ and search engine results were the currency of website traffic. Now, it is completely apparent that the ‘like’ button is transforming the web into a more efficient democratic entity.
Social Media and Search
News that Foursquare is currently in talks with major search engines came today. If it hasn’t yet become complettely clear for those brands still ‘watching and waiting’ while social media continues to grow, social media and search are heading towards becoming inextricably linked and consequently, social media presence will increasingly translate into search engine results.
The Value of a Facebook Fan: All Facebook Fans Are Not Created Equal
Over the past few months, a trend on Facebook has created a viral batch of fan pages. These fan pages were created by seemingly innocent creators who ‘thought up’ a fan page using some type of funny title or phrase. Some of these fan pages generated an incredible amount of fanning, usually because the name of the fan page was humorous.
But for those major brands spending big bucks to generate fans via marketing dollars, are these funny and sometimes clever fan pages generating a less expensive way to drive fanning?
Facebook’s Social Plugins Video
Facebook just released a video explaining Facebook social plugins. It was immediately apparent that the video itself was created in a way that tries not to overwhelm the viewer with too much information, by using playful creative images to help illustrate the explanation.
Social Media and Trust: Coca-Cola could have an advantage of 650 million people
As Facebook rolled out Open Graph (for those of you still behind on this – it basically pulls your public Facebook profile details into websites that you visit if those websites have Open Graph installed), it seemed to be a fittingly monumental initiative for the social media giant. Even with the ensuing backlash concerning privacy issues – the concept seemed to be a very progressive step towards the evolution of social media.
‘Become a Fan’ changing, Facebook Fan Pages will say ‘Like’
Facebook rolled out the change from ‘Become a Fan’ to ‘Like’ today. According to Christopher Heine, of Clickz.com, Facebook had communicated that their research pointed towards a higher level of comfort for Facebook users when ‘liking’ versus ‘becoming a fan.’
Facebook Races Past Google, Brands Risk Becoming Irrelevant
If you didn’t happen to notice, Facebook just passed Google as the number 1 online destination in the U.S. for web users, according to Hitwise.
What does this mean? It means the rise of SMO (Social Media Optimization) and the continue competition between search engines and social media as a primary destination. It’s obvious that both social media, and search capability are important – who will be the first to find the perfect blend of the two technologies, making it seamless for users to find relevant, trustworthy information online through friends and resources?
How Geo-location in Social Media and Mobile Advertising Will Change Everything
Heard of Foursquare? No? Well, it isn’t going away anytime soon – especially when it can literally walk consumers directly through the front door for businesses. (Hint: it gets people to use their mobile phones to tell friends when and where they are – Starbucks, an Irish Pub – you name it) Heard of AdMob? No? Well, they were this teeny tiny mobile-advertising company one guy named Omar Hamoui started in January of 2006 – and Google announced in November that they agreed to acquire the firm for a breath-taking $750 million in stock.
Facebook Users: Get Ready to Share Your Location With Friends
That’s right. As Big W speculated at the beginning of this year – 2010 will be the year of ‘Where are you?’ and geo-location in social media. In fact, according to Nick Bilton of the New York Times, Facebook is planning to take the wraps off of it’s location-sharing feature at the f8 conference in late April. Are you ready to share your location on a map with your friends?
How to Workaround Facebook’s New Requirement: 10K Ad Spend Per Month For ALL Fan Page Promotions
Due to the recent policy guideline changes Facebook has made, impacting promotions, it is important for small businesses and major brands to make sure that their agency, consultant(s), and internal staff are well aware of the compliance requirements. Should your company fail to comply, you risk removal of your Fan Page from Facebook – a disaster for all parties involved.
Social Media and Agencies by Guest Author: Lisa Fritts
In the agency world, social marketing has quickly become a must-have, core competency. Particularly as the lines between who does what among agencies has turned into a shag carpet – completely fuzzy and a little bit awkward for some!
Big Facebook Fan Page Changes Coming: Designers/Developers Take Notice
Have a Facebook Fan Page? There are some changes coming through the pipeline from Facebook, that will impact major brands and small businesses with Fan Pages. Facebook is circulating a document outlining the changes to Fan Pages.
10 Strategic Social Media Approaches and Best Social Media Practices
Ten social media strategic approaches that will impact your positioning with your community. As we move further beyond interruption marketing and the day of the 30 second-spot, full conversations with consumers and brands will evolve. Make sure your are using these approaches to make the most of your engagement with your community of listeners.
What is your Social Media Alert and Response Team Emergency Plan? Get a SMART EP.
Social Media Alert and Response Team, an acronym that describes an immediate emergency plan involving a key group of decision-makers within your company or organization, that can respond to a potentially disastrous conversation chain or thread of negative consumer feedback starting to gain momentum within your social media presence.
In social media, often the speed of the response can be more important than the content of the response.
Where in the world is your social community?
At a recent social media conference held by the Business Development Institute in New York City, McDonalds presented their own insights on the lessons learned from social media initiatives that they have engaged in. One of the first, and most basic steps, is to determine which social communities to engage since different regions of the world are drawn to different social communities.
