Posts Tagged ‘social’

Consumers are sharing more online every day. In fact, Facebook data reveals consumers share four billion things a day and Mark Zuckerberg predicts that every year, consumers will share twice as much as the year before. From photos and videos, to status updates and recommendations, consumer-generated content is increasingly common and incredibly powerful.

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.

Clients will expect you to be able to prepare them for social media marketing. By providing them with the appropriate information, you will be able to release some of their initial anxiety, while also promoting the need for your services.

Think what it would be like to be sitting on the other side of the conference table, especially if this was your first time investing in social media marketing. What type of questions would you ask, and, if the right questions were asked, what kind of answers would you be looking for?

If you are an avid reader of our daily content, which any sane individual is, you may remember reading a lot of articles that were vital to your title as a social media intellect this week.

Whether we were discussing slavery of the 21st century or providing you with successful tips for your LinkedIn picture, each story served its purpose in one way or another.

Even if you missed our vital stories this week, we put together a list for you, so that you don’t have to go searching through our archives. Take a few minutes to read each article, absorb the important points and move on with your day.

On behalf of our staff at Social Times, we would like to thank our military members for protecting us from harm and keeping us safe. Happy Veterans Day!

App battle is all the rage. You know, when you whip out your smartphone and race to see whose map application can find directions to the Panda Express first, or whose app finds the best reviews? Or whose app finds discounts on General Tsao’s chicken?There’s an app for almost anything except finding the right apps. [...]

Typically, I’m not the one to rave about a company’s product in an article of mine, but this particular product deserves my full attention. vCita, a new way to engage and meet your online audience, helps enhance your business’s online presence by providing you with various services: online video meeting rooms, phone conference services, online payment systems and more.

Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an online event that features major speakers and small group workshops, begins in 22 days. If you’re looking to register for the early bird rate, your last day to receive this special opportunity is September 8. Interested in learning more about one of the speakers? Meet Robert Scoble.

As more and more social TV apps pop up, it has become apparent that the future of TV is social. Hulu is jumping on the social bandwagon with a big announcement this morning—they are making the Hulu experience even more social with Facebook integration.

From the looks of it, the new social shopping company is truly social. Quopons and merchants create unbeatable deals that consumers really want. “We only send out one email per day featuring one deal to our subscribers,” says Stan Eyler, CEO of Quopons. “They can buy the deal but in order for the deal to reach the ‘tipping point’ and ‘activate,’ a minimum number must buy the deal or it is ‘No Deal,’ which encourages buyers to contact friends about the deal through social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.”

Need a clear sign of where Evernote, and perhaps every other Web-based tool, is headed? Check out the note-taking service’s latest Windows update.

Tapjoy, a company that provides monetization and distribution services, released today that they have a new way for independent developers to evolve their games into profitable and popular titles. According to the company, they plan to invest their resources and capital into pre-launch games that have the potential to become successful. If a game is chosen, it will receive monthly marketing credits to acquire new users through Tapjoy’s network of over 100 million social gamers and 200 million mobile consumers.