Posts Tagged ‘profile’

Even the LinkedIn agreement tells you that you have to have a picture with your profile. So, you might as well take the time to really get a good picture done right.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Facebook users are afraid of change, according to a USA Tod ay poll released in mid-October, which revealed that 56% of Facebook users did not like Facebook’s latest changes. With that being said, Facebook users are constantly growing by the day. What keeps current users with the social networking platform, and what drives new users towards it? The answers are endless, but we should not be looking at what brings users to the platform, instead we should be looking at what drives users away. Timeline, Facebook’s “new kind of profile,” could be the underlying answer to the question at hand.

As a business owner, I understand the frustration of not being able to add prospective consumers or clients to your fan page. I’m sure you’re tempted to create a simple profile (timeline) page for your business to help attract targeted individuals in your market, however, it is something that I would not recommend. In fact, not only do I condone the activity, but if you create a Facebook profile (timeline) page for your business, you are in direct violation of Facebook’s Terms of Use. Some of you may think this information is repetitive, but I think otherwise. Search Facebook for businesses in your local area, and I guarantee most of them are not getting the message.

500 million of us have a Facebook profile, but what if the socializing there could be expanded to the entire web? The creators of Googlin, a social web surfing application, are hoping that an immersive social web experience – from CNN’s homepage to your Google searches – is the next generation.

Have you ever wished that you could express yourself more thoroughly on your social network profiles and go beyond the conventional profile images and text? Vanityvid, a new Israel-based startup, is taking the profile pic to the next level by giving users the opportunity to turn their Facebook and Twitter profile pictures into videos. I [...]

Many people believe that as the perceived value of a social networking page has increased, so has the quality of those enterprises. If that’s your school of thought, you will despise SocialVibe. But there are some redeeming qualities. Read more