Ping.fm has recently announced that they will be discontinuing service in mid-June 2012. As you might have heard, we are about to close Ping.fm. We’ve built its successor, Seesmic Ping, which is more reliable, stable and robust, providing more features and focusing on the most popular services. Because of that, Hootsuite announced that they will be removing Ping.fm (part of
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This recent infographic from Socialbakers is pretty much summed up by their description: “New Socialbakers Data Proves Facebook Helps Big Brands Build Big Momentum in Emerging Markets” Before you glaze over at another infographic, it is worth your time to look at some of the math used at the bottom. Too much is done these days in terms of numbers
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Another day, another blundering fool shooting himself in the foot by exposing his dark side – and ignorance of the fact that social media is not the place for private thoughts on advocating violence against women. Official spokesman for Rep. Nan Hayworth’s (R-NY) re-election campaign Jay Townsend is not helping his party friends these days when he espoused “Let’s
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A new white paper by Third Door Media and distributed by Adobe’s Digital Marketing has looked into the relationship of social media and mobile. When you are on your mobile, accessing an app is not the same experience as on the desktop. The newsfeed is different, pages are not as present and of course there is no advertising. For now. According
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I think you would agree that Facebook Fans of brand pages are strong advocates, or ones who help you spread your message. Now a new study by Forrester Research confirms that. Brand engagement is a driver of loyalty and purchase for companies, and Facebook is a great channel for advocates to share brand experiences with others. Facebook therefore should be
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Much ado about the Timeline and integrating the profile image to work with the cover photo has been made. But what about your app icons? Each app you make can have it’s own thumbnail image and associated small icon. While you cannot move where the Photos are, you can manage the page so that the last image up is
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No doubt you have seen the recent development with advertising – allowing you to determine if ads will continue to be shown to you or not. I don’t mean all ads, just those who are participating in this program. The value to this for the viewer is the minimizing of ads that they don’t want due to non interest
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Another development in Facebook is the ability to star those who are close to you to ensure you get all of their posts. This is another step for Facebook to give you tighter integration with your friends of relevance and also to strengthen what Facebook knows about you. The more data that Facebook is able to have on you,
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Over 14.2 million smartphone users scanned a QR/Bar code, reaching 14.5 percent of the smartphone audience in EU5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK) during the three month average ending March 2012. More than half of the smartphone audience that scanned a QR/bar code did so from a printed magazine or newspaper (50.9 percent), making it the most popular source.
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Have you noticed in the advanced section of your Facebook apps that there is a couple of radio buttons under “migrations” for ‘Breaking Changes’? Below is the information that you should be aware of with regard to July. The August 2012 are not so critical if you enact the July changes. You best do that now – time is a
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