Posts Tagged ‘Status Updates’

LinkedIn is about to get a whole whack of very valuable data.  The network, with over 100 million professional users, is giving those users the ability to follow and like their favorite companies, just like Twitter users follow and retweet their favorite celebrities.  The difference is that LinkedIn is full of this generation’s technology leaders, [...]

AllFacebook Marketing Conference returns to San Francisco on June 28-29! Join us and get a how-to guide for marketing to Facebook’s 800 million users. A full agenda will be announced soon. Keep an eye on our event site for more information. Special early pricing is available for only $249 until this Wednesday, February 15, so register today.

Updating Facebook isn’t as simple as posting a status here and there. Status updates should be done through a calculation of the information available to you. If businesses understood this more often, they wouldn’t hire an intern to do their social media. Instead, they would pay money to hire a professional in the field. A professional will be able to find your windows of opportunity.

Never underestimate the power of porn. A distraught Glasgow woman has single-handedly forced the giant soft drink maker Coca-Cola to pull a Dr. Pepper Facebook promotion after her 14 year old daughter’s status was altered to include reference to a porn movie. The promotion required Dr. Pepper “hijacking” users’ status updates with embarrassing statements – [...]

2009 saw a tremendous increase in usage of Social Media sites like Twitter and Facebook, and could easily be termed as the Year of Social Media. This growth in the usage of social and collaboration platforms has led the enterprises to seriously consider using social platforms for business collaborations, according to Mark R. Gilbert, research vice president at Gartner Research.
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