Social media only feel as if they’ve been around forever. Truth is, their explosion has taken place largely between the last Summer Olympics and this one. Facebook had 100 million users 4 years ago. Now it boasts 900 million. The Associated Press story …Find out more from Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh Social Media news
Social Media Consultants Are On The Rise
Anyone who has a business wants to be the customers first choice. This is why businesses need to be working only with the best marketing team possible. In turn, with the popularity of the internet social media consultants are vital to your marketing …Find out more from Business Insider
Social Media Actually Increases Workplace Productivity: Study
Still think social media is a big fat waste of time? Guess again. According to a new report by USA Today that uses the Chicago-based Trunk Club as a centerpiece example, social media can make companies more efficient and even tighter with each other …Find out more from NBC Chicago (blog)
Progressive robo-tweets spark social media crisis
As criticism intensified, Progressive dumped gasoline on the social-media sparks. It responded to its detractors with a perfunctory statement through the app TwitLonger, which allows tweets exceeding 140 characters. Its reply began: “This is a tragic …Find out more from CNN
Yammer Seeks to Simplify Enterprise Social Network Usage With Upgrade
Yammer has upgraded its cloud-based enterprise social networking software with new and improved features designed to make it easier for end users to manage their content. Similar Articles: What the Heck Is Yammer? Why Yammer Is Worth $1 Billion to …Find out more from PCWorld
Punishing Groupon: Social Media Backlash?
But despite these positive numbers, the Street pummeled the stock, just as it did the previous quarter, apparently because of both a growing concern that the daily novelty of Internet deals is wearing off and a general disillusionment with social media …Find out more from CFO.com Magazine
Social media shift in business
The social media campaign against Target started with a single complaint over the weekend from mother Ana Amini that the retailer sells clothing that makes young girls ”look like tramps”. The Port Macquarie primary school teacher’s Facebook post has …Find out more from Brisbane Times
Hatred for Social Media Stocks Is Getting Extreme: Time to Buy?
I still think Zynga in the $5s will make money, and now with all this “social media is dead” fervor I’m going to re-examine the stock. The one thing I do know is that Zynga is sporting more than half of its market cap in net cash, as opposed to Yelp …Find out more from Minyanville.com
Facebook Banned: 9 Ways To Get Kicked Off The Social Network
From nudity to name changes, the giant social media site has quite a few rules about what can and cannot be uploaded onto its users’ profiles. And with nearly 955 million users to keep tabs on, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that Facebook …Find out more from Huffington Post
‘Social Media Games’ Notes Best Countries For Facebook Ads
The U.S., China, Russia and Great Britain may have dominated the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, but nations as far-flung as Mexico, Turkey and Italy were among the strongest performers in the “2012 Social Media Advertising Games,” a report from ad …Find out more from MediaPost Communications
Blog posts about Social Media
8 Tips for Using Facebook Scheduled Posts | Social Media Examiner
Facebook scheduled posts: Everything you need to know to batch your facebook posts into blocks to give you more time to focus on your business.More By Andrea Vahl
How to Use Essential Social Media Metrics for Marketing | Social …
Social media has gone way beyond the new Image and experimental stage. You no longer have to wonder if it is going to help your business to achieve success. You are able to identify metrics that tell you definitively.More By CompuKol
Social Media Newsfeed: Google+ URLs | Facebook Babies …
Social Media Newsfeed: Google+ URLs | Facebook Babies | Salesforce Buys Buddy.More By Tim Sohn
Finding Gaps In The Social Media Monitoring Market | Social Media …
Small and medium businesses now have a solid option for social media listening and monitoring in SM2 by SDL.More By Jason Falls
The Social Media Implosion Continues – 24/7 Wall St.
Is Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) really a social media company? We might consider it a Web 2.0 (or 3.0) company instead, but the market is what the market is… Groupon has become a stick in the mud for just about all social media players …More By Administrator
Other stuff around the web on Social Media
Monitoring Weapons Bans With Social Media – Slashdot
Harperdog writes “Kirk Bansak has a great article outlining a coming revolution in non-proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and bio-weapons, courtesy of smart …Read more here.
