Word of the year is … unfriend
The New Oxford American Dictionary has named “unfriend” – as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook – its word of the year. Oxford University Press USA, in a blog post, said “unfriend”, a verb, had beaten netbook, sexting, paywall, birther and death panel for the honour. “Unfriend has [...]
Google Reacts to Twitter & Facebook
Google has announced they have made a deal with Twitter and will be delivering Tweet feeds in the SERPs. This is exciting and interesting and it confirms that SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and Social Media are partners in your success. You shouldn’t neglect either! The search engines favour web pages with history, quality and volumes of information, [...]
HOW TO: Measure Social Media ROI
Last month, we reported on a survey that found that 84% of social media programs don’t measure return on investment (ROI). The comments in that post indicated that a lot of individuals and businesses want to be able to measure the ROI of their social media strategies and campaigns, but they don’t know where to [...]
Superhero Facebook Status Updates
What if Super heroes used social media?
Follow your Competitors with Social Media
This is a pretty cool clip that shows how businesses can keep an eye on their competitors using social media. Here are links to some of the tools/services that this guy mentions Platforms Twitter Facebook Blogging Directories Wefollow Software CoTweet Hootsuite
CNN's 12 most Annoying facebook users
Combine dull status updates with shameless self-promoters, “friend-padders” and that friend of a friend who sends you quizzes every day, and Facebook becomes a daily reminder of why some people can get on your nerves. Here are 12 of the most annoying types of Facebook users
What the web is and is not
The WEB IS NOT: Google + Yahoo + Bing + LinkedIn + Facebook + Blogger + Twitter + MySpace. The WEB IS: an aggregation of human expressions, indicative of demographics, psychographics, sociographics and behavioral traits.
