Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

Flowtown and Column Five have put in the work so you don’t have to – they’ve put together a Social Media Cheat Sheet for small businesses that covers the ins and outs of the social media ecosystem and can help you navigate the major social media sites on the web.

Dealing with all the notifications in your inbox can be a pain, but a couple of teen entrepreneurs, Ben Lang and Tim Kendall have taken it upon themselves to make your life easier with Notification Control – a service they put together to let you manage all of your social media email notifications from one place.

Last week some of the web’s most popular sites, from Wikipedia to Reddit, went dark to protest SOPA and PIPA. The protest was enough to stop SOPA in its tracks (at least for the time being), and Visual.ly, the world’s largest database of infographic, has put together a nice visualization of ‘How the People and Social Media Changed Congress’ Mind in One Day.’

This week, VH1 Classic is hiring a coordinator and community manager, and RebootIL is on the hunt for a social media and marketing manager. Meanwhile, Mobile Deluxe is in need of an art director and a senior programmer. Get all the details on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com. [...]

How many pets are online? How many pet owners are tweeting and Facebooking for their cats and dogs? How many pets have a YouTube page? A new infographic reveals that Fido and Fluffy are hitting the social web a lot more often than you may think!

This is a guest post by Josh Williams, President and CSO of Kontagent Whether in the early stages of developing a mobile application, or already launched with a substantial user base, mobile app developers and marketers can gain a huge advantage and greater chance at success by looking at the way social app developers scientifically optimize [...]

This week, Raytheon is hiring a social media manager, while Big Think is seeking an account manager. Rodale is looking for an SEO manager, and PMC is in need of a content manager for ENTV on YouTube. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com.

We’ve made our way into 2012 and as we start the new year with a fresh slate it’s the perfect time to look back and see what we did right (and what we did wrong) over the past 12 months. A fun new infographic from Flowtown, in partnership with Column Five, takes a look at the biggest social media trends and events over the past year and determines which “hit the spot” and which “missed the mark.”

Recently, a jailed political activist based out of Iran recorded a 15 minute video and posted it on YouTube.  This is despite the government’s attempt to silence his efforts.  The man, Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, is the head of the Democratic Front of Iran, and uses the video to criticize the Iranian government who are putting undue [...]

Let this be the year that you actually keep your New Years resolutions, and let social media be the tool that helps you achieve your goals!