Archive for the 'Social Media 101' Category

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2006 Bites Abercrombie & Fitch on the Skinny Jean Ass

You might have noticed a bit of a gap in the posts in the past few weeks as I took a break from writing to concentrate on some other urgent projects. Now back, let’s dig into something I heard about a few days ago. Since I don’t shop at the store, I was not aware that the retailer Abercrombie &
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Infographic-ing Your Product

This infographic claims to have “a look at the social media landscape: innovations, problems, demographics, what’s missis and what comes next”. In some ways it does, but really I would see this as a good introductory item to use to explain the use of social media in today’s workplace and the difference that people make when using it for personal
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Pretty Man and the Social Clan

Now that the dust has settled from the coronation of Justin Trudeau as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, it will be interesting if the Trudeau team can capitalize on the interest surrounding the new leader that is buzzing on social media. Like anyone ‘new’ they tend to steal the spotlight from others for a period of
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Social and Mobile: Symbosis

This following article first appeared in Mobile Marketer. I wanted to share it with you. It really sums up how important social is, how important mobile is – but most of all how these content and delivery platforms work together in a really tight symbiotic relationship today and going forward. SAN FRANCISCO – An eMarketer executive at the ad:tech San
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Viral Defence Against Defence of Marriage Act

The following article outtakes from Leanne Italie of The Associated Press. While some may still be in the dark as to what the  red and pink equal sign is, the article covers that aspect, however it is a bit trite in a sense that it questions the power of social media and sees people using this as a social moniker
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Social Timing Insights [Infographic]

When to post, tweet, speak, shout. This infographic from Argyle Social gives some idea as to the whowhatwherewhatwhenwha?

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Matching Up Profile and Cover Photos in Facebook

I have been seeing a lot of mismatched cover and profile photos on pages where they owner wants the two images to integrate and wanted to review this as it has been some time since I have done that in an article called Facebook Image Measurements. Lets start with a template. You can achieve this by doing a screen grab.
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Like and Comment this Post

It’s far easier to like a post than comment is it not? Think about a friend posting a picture. How often do you comment as opposed to simply liking it to let them know you appreciate the post. Now think about posting as a Facebook page admin. When you post something you are more often to get a like than
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The End of Social Media

From the Joy of Tech on Geek Culture. Made my day.

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[Report] It’s a Social World: Top 10 Need-to-Knows About Social Networking and Where It’s Headed

By comScore With the widespread adoption of the Internet around the world came the rise of social networking as a global phenomenon. In March 2007, Social Networking as a category had a global audience of less than 500 million users, representing just 56 percent of the world’s online population. In those days, as Thomas Friedman put it, “‘Twitter’ was a
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