Social Media & Technology
5 iPhone Apps to Update Now
If you’re an iPhone owner like me, you likely have quite a few apps on your phone. While the average iPhone user has somewhere around 65 apps according to TechCrunch, these apps are constantly being tweaked and fine-tuned by their developers. While Android users can opt to have many of their apps automatically updated, Apple [...]
How To Update All Of Your Social Networks At Once
Can’t keep up with your social media life life? If you’re overwhelmed by balancing your Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social network profiles, you may be exhausted by updating each of your social networks individually – especially if you post the same content to every social network. While high profile social media users and brands [...]
How to Remove Google Plus Circles from Google Talk
Google+ has changed the way Google services mix and interact in a big way. With the upcoming change to Google’s privacy policy essentially combining every Google service under one umbrella of terms, it’s clear that Google’s long-term intentions are to intermix various services as much as possible. Once side effect of this integration can be [...]
Why Brands Should Use Google+
In the summer of 2011, Google launched its latest attempt at social networking, following the failures of Google Buzz, Google Wave, Orkut, and Jaiku – just to name a few. While Google+ has picked up a few million users, brands have been hesitant to adopt profiles on the social network as popular interest in Google+ [...]
5 Social Networks That Are Making a Comeback
Justin Timberlake is bringing something back, and while it’s not a Grammy Award-winning song from 2007, it’s something equally reminiscent of that same year. As Ashton Kutcher has been busy investing in new startups like Zaarly, Hipmunk, Airbnb and Square, Justin Timberlake is hoping to leverage his fame (and fortune) to bring back one of [...]
How to Start a Blog
If you haven’t yet started your own blog, now is never a better time. Starting a blog is easy, fast, and can cost little to nothing. Many people start blogging for a vast majority of reasons, and may choose to either start a free blog on a service like WordPress.com or pay several hundred dollars [...]
Top Five Reasons to Pay for LinkedIn
Looking for a job? You’re not alone. Currently, over 13 million people in the United States are unemployed — and that’s not counting residents who are not able to claim unemployment because they have exhausted or are ineligible for unemployment benefits. Utilizing every resource available to you in your search for employment is critical to [...]
Four New Social Networks to Watch in 2012
For over a decade, broad and comprehensive social networks like Facebook and its previously popular predecessor, MySpace, have been the predominant social networks. In the last few years, startups have been building niche social networks that offer unique features depending on users’ interests. Some of these networks are geared towards those affected by cancer, and [...]
How to Engage Key Influencers
Lately we’ve been discussing ways that social media managers can help improve their social strategy, which has become a critical component of any marketing program. A recent study found that 82% of the world’s online population engages in social networking, and two in five use their smartphone to connect to social networks nearly every day. [...]
How to Determine Your ROI
ROI is not just a buzzword. This term, which is the abbreviation for “return on investment,” refers to the classic theory in marketing that you must consider the benefit from the overall investment in a marketing campaign. (Of course, the term can be applied to any investment you devote to other aspects in life, such [...]
