Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

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.

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.

Over the past couple months a brand new meme has taken over YouTube (and the world!)—the hilarious ‘Sh** Girls Say’ web series has spawned a deluge of copycats. In recent weeks the tech savvy have gotten in on the fun with ‘Sh** VCs Say’, ‘Sh** Silicon Valley Says’ and now, ‘Sh** a Social Media Community Manager Says.’

Is social media a distraction for students or an integrated part of college life? This infographic shows how schools have joined their students on sites like Facebook and Twitter to make college campuses even more social.

Last night’s game didn’t only beat the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards’ record of 3.1 million social media comments, it crushed the record with a whopping 12.2 million social media comments. Bluefin Labs breaks it down in 3 great infographics.

The closing moments of Super Bowl XLVI, which saw the New York Giants come from behind to edge the New England Patriots 21-17 with a last-minute touchdown, were so dramatic that they set a new tweets per second (TPS) record on Twitter. The final three minutes of the Super Bowl saw Twitter users firing off [...]

You may remember Mobli as the visual social media platform that Leonardo DiCaprio invested in back in October, that has also attracted big names like Paris Hilton, David Arquette and more. This week, Mobli is adding another big star to their roster, announcing a new partnership with seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong.

Today KLM Royal Dutch Airlines reached a new milestone—1 million Facebook fans—and they’re celebrating with a Thank You video on YouTube.

MDG Advertising has put together an awesome infographic exploring ‘The Growing Read Of Social Media’s Election Impact,’ taking a look at how social media has grown since the 2008 election and what it means for 2012.

Are recruiters using social media to recruit new talent?  The folks at the tweetMyJobs blog say yes, and have produced an intense video with a whole stack of statistics about the current state of social recruiting.  As they mention in their blog post, they try to focus on the specifics to deliver an honest appraisal [...]

On average we will share 415 pieces of content on Facebook each year; we’ll spend an average of about 23 minutes a day on Twitter, tweeting a total of around 15,795 tweets; we’ll check in 563 times on Foursquare, upload 196 hours of video on YouTube, and send countless emails. But have you ever stopped to think about what happens to all that content when you die?