Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

The problem with your typical social media strategy is that it assumes that all users, fans or followers are created equal. For a traditional website this actually makes sense. You don’t know anything about your visitors except maybe the geolocation data and the route through which they reached you.  Social media is fundamentally different. The extra wealth of data you…

Through using social media websites and social bookmarking you will be able to send a link and description of your website to millions of viewers in less than a minute, for free! If you have just launched your website or just want to attract new web traffic, using social media websites and social bookmarking is a free and fast way…

There is a new social networking site. “Not ANOTHER  one!?”, I hear you cry. Well, you’ll be happy to know that this one – named Music Lunge – is specifically for musicians, so it won’t necessarily be another website that takes over your life. But will it actually compete with existing sites like Facebook and Twitter which already offer (admittedly…

Honestly, am I the only one who is more than just a bit bored with global social networking giant that is Facebook? As time goes on, I am getting less and less interested in what is going on in the lives of the “friends” connected to my Facebook. I have 270 people connected to my account. 100 of these I…

We all love social media and if you don’t have an account on Facebook and Twitter or at least one of them then what on earth are you doing!? Although millions of people enjoy interacting with their friends on the networks there are a few things that you really need to think about before announcing to all of your friends…

Twitter is a popular website where people tweet, or write one or two sentence messages for their followers to see. These can also include links to websites, pictures, videos, and all sorts of things like that. Twitter launched promoted accounts in October 2010. When an account is promoted, an algorithm is created for the account to find new users who…

Twitter is a very powerful medium for us to share our feelings about practically anything under the sun, to our followers, as short text messages. Our followers are people who love, respect, admire, and value us and look forward to listening to our thoughts and ideas. Now, the question is, can we market our services or products to our followers…

Okay, you can tweet what you had for dinner if you are a chef or a cooking school instructor or a food critic or anything that would lead you to believe that people actually care what you ate. But if you do not fall into the above categories, spare us the details of what you had for dinner unless you…

Everyone knows that social media has become one of the most powerful marketing tools out there, but what does it have to do with website design? The average user of social networking sites has likely clicked on links to various products, services and companies from the social networking page and been impacted by web design whether he or she realized…

Top 20 Social Media Tools Hootsuite – manage your social media accounts online and link up with your traffic stats in Google Analytics. Untweeps – tidy-up your Twitter account by finding the accounts you’re following which have gone stale. Klout – find influencers based upon Klout score and find ways to improve the influence of your own account. Topsy –…