So now that you set up a twitter account, do you know what to do? When to do it? Why you are doing it when and how you are doing it? Follow Follow those who follow you. There is a magic threshold of where you follow more than follow you that will have you marked as a spam account. You
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If your business is online, then you should be aware of the power of not only integrating it with a Facebook page and common sense SEO, but also utilizing the social sharing. Those are the icons you see associated on this blog with the numbers beside the icons. Hubspot has this great infographic in its latest release “How to Use
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From time to time I receive requests for measurement tools to measure the reach of a twitter account and it’s efficacy when it comes to the tweeting. While there is no one tool that can give you all the information you need, the following do a good job as a collection to let you know how you are doing. All
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On Monday (Jan 16) Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that the English version of the site will be down as a response to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently before the House of Representatives in the US. The Whitehouse has had to respond to petitions (as required anyway with numbers over 25K) so this is sure to make the petition
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I listened to The Current on CBC Radio with some interest this morning. They were talking about the national Liberal Party convention in Ottawa over the weekend. It seems that that party is trying to be more open and inclusive. What struck a chord with me is that the attendees were treated to some social media learning. They had a
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The new video manager allows more function and easier privacy settings. A few years ago when people didn’t know what Web 2.0 was, I referred them to YouTube. The reason for that was that it helped differentiate what the initial web (1994 – early 2000’s) was. By that I mean that the initial offerings on the web were more push.
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Organic search results are listings on search engine results pages that appear because of their relevance to the search terms, as opposed to their being advertisements. In contrast, non-organic search results may include pay per click advertising. Unlike a website, we do not have full control over the optimization for search engine ranking on Facebook, however there is some things
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“Don’t tweet checkstop locations, police ask. Calgary police are asking people not to use social media to alert others to checkstops.” So starts a story on cbc.ca from Calgary. While I admit that there is nothing wrong per-se with the force in Cowtown asking this, what I do see amiss is that there warning that “… the information becomes outdated
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I recently read about a new Facebook app that allows you to automatically post a fan of the week based on the interaction of fans on your Facebook page. To me it causes two concerns. Is the fan of the week the one who makes the most likes, comments, wall posts? Or is it one who gives the most value
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