Category: Social Media

YouTube vs Television

Top earning actors and channels with the most subscribers or viewers are good for comparison, but when it comes to the top shows on YouTube and standard television, YouTube is winning the competition hand...

Why Hashtags Are Here to Stay

Why Hashtags Are Here to Stay

These days, the word ‘tweet’ does not refer to the fact that you could tweet like a bird, it is about whether or not you have something interesting to share on social media. Inspired by the speed of sound, Twitter is a social phenomenon because these days a conversation is digitized. Though this social media platform comes in close with Facebook, in terms of marketing and branding, Twitter eclipses Facebook.

Tips on Effective Money Making from Forums

Tips on Effective Money Making from Forums

These days, the internet is full of free of charge online money-making possibilities. It has supplied numerous possibilities to individuals seeking to help to make extra earnings with no extra expense. Online marketing is actually...

Things to Avoid When Using Social Media

Things to Avoid When Using Social Media

The technology has indeed changed the landscape of communication as compared to the previous centuries, wherein people can only communicate via letters. You still need to wait for weeks and even months just to receive the mail that may contain letters and photos. Social media have offered a great medium for people to get updates from their loved ones overseas. On the other hand, there are always two sides of the coin. Yes, social media offers a lot of advantages but there are some things that you need to avoid when using social media.

The Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

The Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Everyone knows how beneficial social media marketing can be for a small business. However, many businesses simply do not put enough effort into monitoring their social media presence outside of their own account. No longer are social networks used solely for contact information storage and sharing of funny pictures between friends. Social networks can be excellent marketing tools for small businesses and big businesses alike. There are a few tools that can help you to more effectively monitor your social media presence.

Use Video in Social Media Marketing

Use Video in Social Media Marketing

If you own a site and run a business, you can share news and corporate events, pictures to draw customer’s attention and build a relationship between your customer and your brand. It can be done either on your site directly, or using a social media resources. On your social media page you can build a real community of fans and customers and share important updates and news.

Web 2.0 and Digital Marketing Domain

Web 2.0 and Digital Marketing Domain

Digital marketing in the present era relies on web 2.0 sites and CMSs. Marketing through Web 2.0 sites internet marketing on the basis of social web. Here, social web implies typical websites, which foster communication and sharing between users. Blogs, affiliate channels, forums, wikis, web portals, social networks, bookmarking sites and user reviews are some of the examples of Web 2.0 sites.

Social Media Marketing Via Youtube

Social Media Marketing Via Youtube

The internet has truly changed the way people live. Through the internet, people can browse and at the same time give information, send mail, share and upload pictures and videos in a matter of seconds. With the advent of social media, web- and mobile-based technologies can turn communication into interactive discussion among organizations, communities, and individuals.

Top plug-ins to enhance Facebook experience

Top plug-ins to enhance Facebook experience

Plug-ins today not only enhance your experience of a particular software but complete it. Once you start using the right plug-ins, you will wonder how you ever got through never using them at all. Every application has something that you can add to – whether it is browsers like Chrome or Firefox, social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, or your own smartphones – Android or iOS. For Facebook however, the most popular social media network, plug-ins can personalize your experience all the more. You can choose from a variety of plug-ins depending on your need, which do everything from reading aloud your Facebook messages to returning a poke automatically, but here are a few which have made the top list, by popular use, and which are used across platforms.

How to Use Facebook’s Privacy Settings Effectively

How to Use Facebook’s Privacy Settings Effectively

Facebook can be a fun place to get in touch with friends and share updates about your life with the people you know; however, Facebook can also be a very public place, and it is essential to use the privacy settings on your Facebook account to make sure that only the people you want to share these things with can actually see them.

Three Great Infographics to Teach You About Market Research

Three Great Infographics to Teach You About Market Research

Market research is an essential part of building a business. Whether you’re in the catering industry, develop pharmaceuticals, or work with social media, knowing what your consumers want, and what the competition is getting...

Customer Service: Can Social Media Replace the Contact Centre?

Customer Service: Can Social Media Replace the Contact Centre?

If you believe the hype, social media is taking over the world. It’s the Internet’s version of a water cooler, online store, billboard, and concert hall, but is the hype true? Well, not everyone enjoys using social media – for some people, the privacy concerns and usability issues are just too great. However, few people like using traditional contact centre services; perhaps social media could solve the problems of confusing IVR menus, poorly trained contact agents, and long hold times.

3 Ways to Get More Out Of Twitter

3 Ways to Get More Out Of Twitter

Twitter has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity over the last few years. It now has over 100 million active users and is an easy way for people across the world to communicate and share information. However, to a newcomer Twitter can seem a little daunting. To the untrained eye it can appear to be a bit chaotic and confusing but with a little help you could be Tweeting away with the masses in no time. There are also many Twitter users who are not getting all that they could from it. Below are 3 simple ways in which you could get more out of Twitter.

Facebook Advertising – A New Avenue of Making Users “Like” Your Brand

Facebook Advertising – A New Avenue of Making Users “Like” Your Brand

There are many things that offer you plenty of opportunities to promote your products and services to the defined target audience. With growing demand, Facebook and other social media channels have managed to get up to the marketing expectations of the companies. With a great platform, Facebook presents the clients with an excellent engagement site. The latest avenue which has worked wonders for many companies offers a versatile system that can create links for the visiting users. Such a system helps the company in measuring the liking trend and thus; it will further assess the exact shares.

3 Awesome Social Media Apps

3 Awesome Social Media Apps

Once upon a time, in a not so distant past, social media was looked upon as some sort of novelty, that would fade into obscurity like internet chatrooms, America Online and a million other internet sensations that slowly but surely faded into the memories of the general consciousness. Obviously, unless you have been living under a rock for the last decade, this is no longer the case. Here are some well known and most used social media apps.

5 Ways to Make Facebook More Productive

5 Ways to Make Facebook More Productive

Social media has become the new preferred platform for a company, or a person, to speak and communicate with the greater public. No longer is it necessary to have a public relations expert or media exposure, because social media allows a person or company to do it entirely by themselves. Of course, it does take some effort and expertise to do it properly. These days, Facebook is one of the most popular- if not, the most popular- social media site on the internet. For many, Facebook is a way to waste time and procrastinate, but there are ways to be productive on Facebook, and there are ways to get the most out of it in the process.

Educational Leadership: Taking a Page from Social Media

Educational Leadership: Taking a Page from Social Media

The popularity of social media continues to expand as technological improvements make it possible to connect with people in whole new ways and this has not only caught the attention of marketing departments. Those creating educational policy and attending educational leadership graduate programs have begun to pay very close attention to the development of some of these tools. While many K-12 districts place restrictions on social media use within schools, many others have found ways to take advantage of these services and tools. Oftentimes, this integration is controlled and monitored, but it still engages students in a way that traditional measures do not.

Social Networking Tools for Businesses

Social Networking Tools for Businesses

The social media explosion has caused businesses all over the globe to re-imagine what branding and marketing look like in a digital world. While this has been a step in the right direction for the global business community, social media marketing comes with its own set of challenges. For starters, each social network has its own language and boundaries. First off, there are the obvious content barriers that are embedded into both Facebook and Twitter. Still, it seems that the gap between Twitter and Facebook is shallow when compared to the nebulous black hole known as Google+. With this in mind, the big question surrounding Google’s burgeoning social network is: So, now what?

Twitter Country

Twitter Country

On August 29, 2011, Twitter took a huge stride into the Washington tech policy world by proclaiming the hire of telecommunications policy veteran Colin Crowell, a former top FCC and Hill telecom aide. Twitter is not waiting for the newest Department of Justice inquiry or FBI raid before preparing its connections in Washington D.C. Instead, the company is arming itself and gearing up for the inexorable D.C. tumult.