All Entries Tagged With: "social media tools"
LinkedIn: More Relevant Than Ever
After a scary ride, during the meteoric rise of Facebook, LinkedIn seems to have made the right decisions – decisions that will keep it as the power player it deserves to be in social media. It’s faster, more useful, and a critical part of any business professionals activity.
Twitter Applications for Everyone
Not sure what Twitter apps are good? Bad? Ugly? OneForty has got you covered. Find great Twitter applications based on user-reviews and even meet/view the developers who made them.
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.
2010 Geo-Location: Social Media Year of “Where are you?”
Trending 2009, location-based social media APIs have been storming the social-sphere. If you look closely at how search engines have trended towards localization, it makes sense. Over the years, technology starts at a macro level and then evolves to service users on a more personal level. Now, social media is going to rapidly evolve from a macro level to a location-based micro-level.
Twitter Beta-testing ‘Contributors’ Feature
Twitter announced a new feature, currently in beta, that businesses can leverage on Twitter to help make their business to consumer tweets more personal. The feature is called ‘Contributors’ and appends the contributor’s username to the byline.
Web 3.0? Nimbus and Focus.
At the current pace of the accelerating social media space – the next evolution in social media could send everyone racing, yet again, to understand and strategically gauge the best implementation of the medium…which may become completely reinvented. Relax, it won’t happen tomorrow or next week – but keep your expectations in check as it can always be right around the corner. What are we talking about? Web 3.0. Where your status will be called your “nimbus” and those things you want to follow or have interest in will be called your “focus.”
Is Social Media a Fad?
In one of the most compelling videos we have seen to date, a great stack of staggering and significant statistics are linked together in a chain that documents the exponential growth of social media mathematically. The fundamental shift in the way consumers consume has been changing the dynamics of marketing and the online spend vs traditional offline spend for even the biggest marketing budgets.
Top Facebook Apps Leaderboard Statistics
As of today and according to a tracking system developed by Inside Facebook (which permits developers to submit their applications for the list) the top application on Facebook, with a commanding 63 million users, is FarmVille. This interactive game takes advantage of every possible user-generated sharing activity in the execution of game play, and it’s paying off time and time again.
Google Social Search
As the lines between search engines and social networks continue to blur, things are getting interesting. Consider, as most of you already know, that Google is the #1 online destination and that Facebook is now #2 (at the time of this writing as per Alexa rankings) so both giants have the world’s best platforms for their particular category. The final piece of the current puzzle involves figuring out how to leverage the power inherent in both companies’ respective platforms in a way that shows users their first online destination should be one or the other. Or does it?
Behold: The Power of Twitter Lists
So, what the heck is the big deal about Twitter’s new API that allows you to create a Twitter list?
It’s a big deal, and here are the reasons…
Creating these lists, even if you don’t post to Listorious, will start to cement you as an authority on the resourceful tweeters that other seek to find. In other words, other Twitterers look to you in order to find the people they should be following.
The Facebook Brand Landing Tab: Do You Have One?
The brand landing tab. It’s no secret that FBML can be used for flash executions of designs, and HTML executions. The boxes tab has become cumbersome and ‘disjointed’ compared to the dynamic and polished landing tabs developed by Coca-Cola, and Dove.
Wufoo: Create Free Online Polls Without A Programmer
These guys did it right, setting up a wealth of template options to run polls, capture data, and more to get you started but with the easy editing features you will quickly see why Wufoo is an award-winning tool and top of the class in its category. It is free for basic features, and affordable for increased features – and extremely user-friendly. We bet you will love it.
Activate Your Natural Sales Force: Flip.to Leverages Social Media & Your Employees
At a time when some companies are completely banning social media in the office, and others are embracing it, it looks like Flip.to presents a compelling reason to keep your employees happy while you simultaneously give your bottom line more potential.
Build a potentially viral Twitter campaign in less than 5 minutes
We have heard of tons of strategies for Twitter promotions and marketing – and there is a new tool out there every 20 minutes to try and execute a campaign via Twitter. But here is one application so easy, and powerful, your Twitter promotion could go viral after only five minutes of setting up your promo.
