Category Archives: Social Networking

If you have any lofty notions of minimizing your social media contacts in order to lead a more Zen life, you may want to stop by Facebook just one more time and re-evaluate your decision. You may be caught off guard by how Facebook is continually improving their game, and find yourself happily buried in your phone once again. The most recent update to Facebook’s mobile software is hip and addicting and improves smart phone chatting. Read On

LinkedIn is yet another awesome way to easily connect with other professionals. In fact, LinkedIn is the one social network that is solely dedicated to helping you show off your business smarts and grow your career opportunities. If you are looking to keep up with your colleagues, consider the following 5 steps for really getting the most out of your LinkedIn profile. Read On

You may have thought the days of passing judgment based on popularity and social influence ended with high school. Boy, were you wrong. With a plethora of social media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, YouTube, and more, you can expand your social influence wider than you ever imagined. And Klout is there to put a number on it! As silly as that sounds, Klout is actually a really cool way to determine how much influence you have in the online social world. Here are a few ways Klout determines your social influence score. Read On

Want to be let in on a cool secret about writing for social media outlets? You can forget everything your college English professor taught you about writing. Well, almost everything. You probably don’t want to mix up the classic you’re/your, it’s/its, and they’re/there/their, unless you want tons of comments about how you stink at English. With the exception of always employing proper grammar, go ahead and forget your college writing class, and consider this instead. Read On

Have you ever felt the urge to make a comment on a Facebook post that’s loaded with hashtags about how hashtags don’t actually make sense for Facebook? Well, that urge to educate may be dispelled as Facebook is considering actually adding hashtags to Facebook as a viable search option. Here are a few reasons marketers are getting excited about hashtagging on Facebook. Read On

If you’re not currently using Pinterest as part of your online marketing strategy, now is the perfect time to start. Not only does Pinterest draw loads of traffic from interested consumers, Pinterest just made it a whole lot easier to evaluate traffic. Here are a few reasons Pinetrest Web Analytics will brighten up your life.

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Have you seen it yet? If you’re into engaging in Facebook conversations, you may have stumbled upon Facebook’s latest experiment to make commenting easier—the “reply” button. If you haven’t seen Facebook’s “reply” feature yet, don’t fret. The “reply” button is in testing mode right now, so it is not currently available to all users. The “reply” button will be located right next to the “like” button on each comment, and allows users to directly reply to any comment.

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It seems the leaders of each prominent social media platform are playing a competitive game of keeping up with the Joneses, and they’re all playing hard. I recently posted about all the cool updates on Google+, and, as it turns out, Facebook is not far behind when it comes to keeping it fresh. Facebook is slowly rolling out some new features that make users’ Facebook experiences even more dynamic. Check out some of the Facebook updates to the new news feed.

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Yesterday Google+ launched some exciting new updates to the Google+ profile that make navigating profiles easier. Not to mention, they look pretty snazzy.

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With image marketing at the top of the digital marketing game these days, it is important to be aware of exactly what each top image marketing business has to offer. Companies like Twitter and Instagram have been dominating the visual marketing world for a while, but Yahoo! recently made some updates to their mobile Flickr app that certainly gives both Twitter and Instagram a run for their money. Here are just a few things Flickr is doing that will hopefully convince you to include Flickr in your small business Internet marketing strategy.

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