07/12/2013
Pro Tip: Having a lot of fans is not a social media strategy, but having engaged fans is. So enter the conversation! If you sell bicycles for a living, comment on news articles or blogs where people are talking about bicycles.
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Pro Tip: Having a lot of fans is not a social media strategy, but having engaged fans is. So enter the conversation! If you sell bicycles for a living, comment on news articles or blogs where people are talking about bicycles.
Which social network do you use the most and what is your favorite thing about it?
Have you used Facebook Graph Search yet?
Social media stalking has never been so easy. And guess what: You can't opt out
Correlation study of how 44 different factors affect Google rank
The study deals with the definition and evaluation of ranking factors that have a positive correlation with the front rank in Google organic search results.
It's the first weekend in July. Are you spending more time outside and less time inside online?
For the first time, Twitter will allow advertisers to target users based on things they did off the service, like web browsing, as well as personal information like an email address.
Twitter has opened up retargeting and email-match targeting, but is also giving users the option to opt out.
Still standing on guard. Happy Fourth of July everyone!
How effective are your communication abilities? This video is hilarious!
"Don't try to fix it. I just need you to listen." Every man has heard these words. And they are the law of the land. No matter what.
Facebook is testing a new chat room feature. How do you see brands taking advantage of this in the future?
Facebook has built a new feature codenamed Host Chat that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the feature tells us. I've contacted Facebook and it confirms it has begun testing this feature in the wild. Reminiscent of the old AOL..
Who is producing what we consume and how are they making their money?
At some point we all realized that money does not grow on trees, but can it grow digitally? Our host Jeanette sat down with Alexis Robin who is in charge of digital advertising with the ad agency lg2 to find out!
This awesome infographic describes how a few ways different regions react to social marketing and options to shop online.
You might think that when it comes to shopping, everyone wants to get the lowest price and get the job done as fast as possible, right? Apparently not.
This is cool: What people are searching live on Google
A visualization of the latest hot searches from Google Trends.
Brands can now more finely tune their social media strategies with redesigned Page Insights.
Facebook is announcing some changes to Page Insights, the analytics tool for monitoring the performance of your pages. Product Marketing Manager Galyn Burke told me that this is the first time the Page Insights interface has been updated since October 2011. Now, the specific changes ma..
New ways to engage. Has the feature rolled out to you yet?
Facebook comment threads are about to get quite a bit more crazy. A new camera button is rolling out that allows users to reply to posts with a picture. It's a simple feature, but it's one that...
What is the greatest benefit you get from social media? Let us know!
Are you excited for iOS7? Tell us why or why not.
Steve Wozniak, a technology icon for his work at Apple, is an elder statesman in the industry; he's a person whose opinion carries measurable weight. Recently, in an airport, the fine ...
Happy Father's Day everyone! What's the best advice your father ever gave you?
Are you taking advantage of #hashtags on #Facebook yet?
Designing your mobile site? Take note: Google downranks sites that redirect mobile to homepage.
Smartphone users are a significant and fast growing segment of Internet users, and at Google we want them to experience the full richness of the web. As part of our efforts to improve the mobile web, we published our recommendations and the most common configuration mistakes.
The evolution of Superman's S. It's more than just that - it's the evolution of a brand. How is your brand image evolving?
McDonald's takes aim at the 'internet generation' with trippy new ads...do they succeed?
Series of short ads shows the company may have finally figured out the Internet.
Give them advertising they can actually use. Great examples from IBM.
Imgur is used to share photos with social networks and online communities, and has the funniest pictures from all over the Internet.
Always try to be an optimist, like this goose here.
Imgur is used to share photos with social networks and online communities, and has the funniest pictures from all over the Internet.
Creativity is the engine. Which advertisement in this list caught your attention the most?
Guerrilla advertising attracts eyeballs at places and time which are unexpected.
Swiss mobile brand Swisscom challenges anyone walking by to stare at a Samsung Galaxy S4 for 60 min. If they do it, they get to keep the phone. That's one way to get people to remember your brand.
Swiss mobile brand Swisscom is taking the classic playground game of outstaring your friends and turning it into a promotion for the Samsung Galaxy S4.
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"Facebook and Twitter have been almost impossible to access from inside Istanbul, and other parts of Turkey." Are you keeping up with the events in Turkey?
A massive anti-government protest in Istanbul, prompted after days of unrest were sparked by plans to redevelop one of the last remaining central public parks, appears to have lead to a throttling of social media both in the city and across Turkey. TechCrunch has independently verified via a numb..
Twitter has announced a new advertising tool that will allow for stronger lead generation on that platform.
Do you use #hashtags on #Facebook?
References to hashtags in Facebook's code suggest the social network could be working on bringing the feature -- popular on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr -- to its own platform. Developer Tom Waddington from Cut Out + Keep, who has discovered a number…
Remembering those who served so that we may be free. Thank you service members.
Who loves Siri?
@riddsorensen on Twitter Siri and Me Compilation - @riddsorenen by Ridd Sorensen on Vine
Are you using Twitter's new security feature yet? You probably should be.
Twitter, catching up to the rest of the pack, turns to login authentication.
If this is you, please change your password immediately.
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