Social Media

For online publishers who want more subscribers, it helps to think outside the inbox. There are now 100,000 Facebook fans of JackThreads, the members-only fashion site for men; and Thrillist, a free daily email offering tips on local food, shopping, and entertainment. Social media manager David Pessah told Social Times he’s always looking for new ways to repackage content on Facebook and emerging platforms like Pinterest and Oink. Here are some of his best strategies.

Social media has changed the face of storytelling. Characters, real and fictional, tell their stories in 140 characters or less on Twitter; filmmakers have found storytelling outlets in YouTube and Vimeo; stories are told on blogs, through all sorts of media from text to photos to news clippings, on Facebook walls and beyond. E.A Marciano, a Brooklyn-based writer, has turned to these channels to tell the story of four Brooklynites in The Hyp Replacement, an experimental literary project told through Twitter, Tumblr, Blogspot and YouTube.

AllFacebook Marketing Conference returns to San Francisco on June 28-29! Join us and get a how-to guide for marketing to Facebook’s 800 million users. A full agenda will be announced soon. Keep an eye on our event site for more information. Special early pricing is available for only $249 until this Wednesday, February 15, so register today.

In the ‘Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen,’ which has been viewed over 21.1 million times since it hit YouTube last Wednesday, Tommy Jordan fires 9 rounds into his daughter’s laptop with his .45 after discovering a rant she wrote on Facebook about her parents. Wondering what’s happening with the family since the video has gone viral? Jordan shares it all on his Facebook page.

For online publishers who want more subscribers, it helps to think outside the inbox. There are now 100,000 Facebook fans of JackThreads, the members-only fashion site for men; and Thrillist, a free daily email offering tips on local food, shopping, and entertainment. Social media manager David Pessah told Social Times he’s always looking for new ways to repackage content on Facebook and emerging platforms like Pinterest and Oink. Here are some of his best strategies.

As a social media professional and as parent of a 12 year old girl and 10 year old boy I have a different perspective on the use of social media by my kids than the average parent. I am all too knowledgeable on the pluses of my kids using it and of the risks and [...]

The folks over at Grovo have released this cool new video explaining what we’re trying to do with social media, and how we got here.  The video covers social media from its trivial to epic, and describes the phenomenon pretty well.  May be a nice video to send along to an older family member who [...]

A fun new infographic takes a look at the role social networks, and specifically Facebook, play in the relationship development from dating to marriage and even (unfortunately) divorce.

Does your “significant other” love their social media sites almost as much as they love you? If your boyfriend is addicted to Path, your girlfriend can’t stop tweeting, your husband can’t get enough of Angry Birds or your wife updates her Facebook at any chance she can get, we’ve found the perfect Valentine cards for you.

Google+ is still virgin territory for  games and other social applications. At the Inside Social Apps 2012 conference this week, Inside Network’s Justin Smith sat down with Google+ director of engineering David Glazer to talk about what developers can expect from the platform.

84% of colleges and universities now use Twitter to reach out to their students — that’s up from 0% in 2008-2009.  With LinkedIn, it went from 0% to 47% in the last two years.  There’s no doubt that social media is affecting the way schools reach out to students, and you can bet that students [...]

This is a guest post by Keith Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of BigDoor Often the terms “social games” and “gamification” are used interchangeably, but in actuality they’re very different animals. While it’s true that gamification borrows its game mechanics from social gaming, there are many real-world situations where it makes more sense to apply gamification [...]