Posts Tagged ‘Social Networking’

What’s the biggest advantage to using social media as a police agency? It isn’t sharing information; it is connecting with communities.

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.

Brian Moylan, an editor at Gawker Media (and self-proclaimed “Gawker shit talker” on Twitter), remembers a recent spate of 20 minutes that seemed like the longest ever. He couldn’t click the refresh button on enough browsers fast enough. Having just spotted a Tweet on Billy Crystal’s feed announcing the nine-time Oscars host would be emceeing [...]

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?

Google continues to introduce more and more upgrades to Google Plus search functions.

LinkedIn even went so far as to release the top 10 buzzwords that are overused by professionals in the U.S. If you look over the list, you will see a common denominator – each buzzword is not specific enough – too generalized.

This infographic by JESS3, takes a look at what the average statistics are for the social network on any given day, including number of friends, private messages and comments.

A teenager tweets before committing suicide and no one responds. What does it say about social media and youth?

Between now and December 4, 2011, Stumbleupon will reward you with a free $10 Amazon gift card for every 5 friends you refer to their site.

This year, editor in chief of Black Enterprise, Derek Dingle, started Tweeting. It wasn’t during a press conference. It was during a boxing match. He was watching Bernard Hopkins, who was about to become the oldest heavyweight champion ever, cheering him on through the social network. Readers joined his playful oldies-take-on-young-bloods banter. “Yeah,” one of [...]

You have hundreds of friends of Facebook, but how many real life friends do you have? According to a new study, not as many as your parents did.