CNET
How will microblogging service Twitter make money? Co-founder Jack Dorsey says advertising is the way forward. Its new profile page headers boost curb appeal. by Andrew Nusca commentary Advertisers are an amusingly needy bunch. They want your attention ...
#Twitter Update: Benefits for Users and Brands
Search Engine Journal
The changes affect the look and feel of profiles on twitter.com and the mobile apps for iPad, iPhone, and Android. As of yesterday all twitter users have the option of adding a very facebook-esque header photo and better controls over their background ...
Google+ hits milestone -- 100M active monthly users
Computerworld
By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Answering critics who said Google+ was among the walking dead, Google this week announced that it has some 100 million active users among the 400 million that have signed up for the social network that turned a year-old ...
Ricky Gervais-backed social media app Just Sayin lets you listen in, literally ...
Entertainment Weekly
One of the more delightful parts of social media has been watching famous people fight, or flirt, in public view. From the recent “four way” “fight” between Octavia Spencer, Retta, and Yvette Nicole Brown over Joe Manganiello, to the “dancing pig” spat ...
Salesforce Unveils Social Networking Initiatives For Businesses
CRN
Salesforce on Wednesday unveiled a series of social networking programs, designed to leverage the company's cloud-based applications to help businesses in sales, marketing, communications, data collection and analysis. The new programs continue the ...
Get started: Social media especially critical to small businesses, US lags in ...
Washington Post (blog)
Social media especially vital for small firms: Facebook and Twitter now account for more than half of website traffic for small businesses, more than double their impact for large companies (sending only 19 percent of visitors), according to a new study.
Why Health Care Needs Social Media
Huffington Post
We know that people with more and stronger social connections are more likely to be well and happy, and social media can bolster that. It can give people ways to not just interact with friends and family, but ways to meet new people. There were lots of ...
Did “Call Me Maybe” And Social Media Really Change Music Marketing?
iMedia Connection (blog)
If anything though, the story in that article isn't about how social media and artists like Carly Rae Jepsen have wreaked havoc on the “old model” of music marketing and promotion, it's about how smart marketers have recognized ways to integrate social ...
Obama campaign aims social media engagement at young voters
CNN (blog)
(CNN) - President Barack Obama's campaign on Wednesday announced a new social mediaoutreach project which asks young supporters to share what matters to them this election season. Supporters are encouraged to post photos of themselves to social ...
Social media is big
Toronto Star
In 2011, YouTube reported the online video-sharing site experienced over 1 trillion views in that year alone. With over 7 billion people on Earth, this number works out to roughly 140 views for every living person. Similarly, social networking sites ...
Social well-being of tween girls negatively affected by use of social media
Deseret News
Summary. Social media use and media multitasking often have a negative effect on the social well-being and communication skills of girls from age 8 through 12, according to a study, conducted at Stanford University in March of this year. You might also ...
Deseret News
Social Media: From a Point of Presence to a Point of Business
ClickZ
Search for "social media listening" and you'll find upwards of 200 tools and platforms that claim (most rightly) to "bring visibility" of the social web and the ways in which it impacts your business. Sentiment, trends, and influencers all factor into ...
Did social media just sucker punch a presidential campaign?
Storyful (blog)
Could this be history in the making? Will we look back on November 7 as the daysocial media crippled a presidential campaign? It's clearly too soon to tell, and regardless of the outcome, it's a simplistic reading of what happened when a YouTube video ...
Storyful (blog)
Romney May Suck at Social Media, Doesn't Mean He Won't Be ...
By Hamish McKenzie
As measured in social media by the moment, the election campaign for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been an utter disaster. Luckily for him, however, moments don't last as long as they used to. From “corporations are ...
PandoDaily
Quite Possibly The Worst Social (Media) Tactic...And How To ...
By Kevin_Hudson
Now I'm not a fan of putting the word Image “tactic” in the same sentence as the word “social”, for obvious reasons.
Social Media Today - The world's...
By Kevin_Hudson
Now I'm not a fan of putting the word Image “tactic” in the same sentence as the word “social”, for obvious reasons.
Social Media Today - The world's...
Slimmer PlayStation 3 and Two Other Stories You Need to Know
By Stan Schroeder
Social Media News Welcome to this morning's edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Sony Announces ...
Mashable » Tech
Social Media Tips for Small Business | Small Business Trends
By Ilana Bercovitz
Assigning an intern to manage the social media channels a few hours per week is simply not enough anymore. Your online community expects to receive responses to inquiries in a timely manner (typical accepted response time is within 24 ...
Small Business Trends
4 Social Media Goals Every Business Should Measure | Social ...
Social media business goals: How to measure and increase your brand awareness and website traffic, visitor loyalty and conversion rates.
www.socialmediaexaminer.com/4-social-media-goals/
Facebook's CEO drops to 36 from 14 in Forbes' ranking of richest
USA TODAY
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was the biggest dollar loser in Forbes' latest ranking of the 400 wealthiest Americans. His company's lackluster IPO in May ... 239; and Twittercreator Jack Dorsey at No. 392. There are 45 women on the list, ...
Facebook Testing Mobile Ads for Applications Made by Others
Businessweek
1 Google, which is expected to have 55 percent of the market, according to EMarketer Inc. Pandora Media Inc. (P) is second, with 8.7 percent, and Twitter Inc. nabs the No. 3 spot, claiming 5 percent.Facebook, which makes most of its money from ...
Facebook Expands Promoted Posts for Users Test
WebProNews
Facebook is once again testing the self-absorption and inherent narcissism of its users by allowing them to pay to make sure their witty statuses and clever amateur photography reach the maximum number of friends. Once a limited test, Facebook has ...
Morgan Stanley Says Funds Took 2% Facebook at $38 a Share
Bloomberg
Morgan Stanley (MS), the underwriter that took Facebook Inc. (FB) public at a record high market value, said its own money-management unit bought more than 2 percent of the shares sold through the $16 billion offering. Morgan Stanley Investment ...
SEC probes possibly fraudulent Facebook pre-IPO sales
CNET
SEC probes possibly fraudulent Facebook pre-IPO sales. CNET has learned the Securities and Exchange Commission has issued subpoenas in investigation of fund that allegedly tried to sell 500,000 pre-IPO Facebook shares it may not have actually had.
Firm on pro-people decision, Mamata posts on Facebook
New York Daily News
Kolkata, Sep 19 — West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said she and her party stood firm on the "pro-people" decision of withdrawing support to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) ...
Bollywood celebs wish Ganpati on Twitter
New York Daily News
19 -- Bollywood celebs as well as crickters are upbeat about Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations today as they share their excitement on Twitter. While Salman Khan and family would be organising a Ganpati celebration at home, SRK, Preity, Karan Johar and ...
Twitter Is Baking Little Favors For Its Advertisers Into Every Change ...
By Romain Dillet
Twitter has released numerous. ... Hot topics. Zuckerberg Interview · Apple · Facebook · Amazon ·Twitter · Google · WatchFacebookCEOMarkZuckerberg'sFirstPost-IPOInterviewatTechCrunchDisruptSF · Main Event Page ...
TechCrunch
Twitter CEO: Apple Is Our Mentor, Facebook Our Opponent
By Chris Taylor
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, fresh from a day of smartphone Twitter app releases, said Tuesday night that his company saw Apple as a "mentor" to Twitter.
Mashable » Social Media
Another Taste of an Ad Network: Facebook Debuts Off-Site Mobile ...
By Mike Isaac
The social giant is testing the waters for Facebook ads outside of Facebook.com. ... Hesseldahl); @LaurenGoode (Lauren Goode); @MikeIsaac (Mike Isaac); @BonnieSCha (Bonnie Cha). A single RSS feed of all ATD Writers' Twitter accounts ...
AllThingsD
Twitter Blog: NFL on Twitter: Week 2
By Twitter
Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Week 2 is in the books, and #NFL players are moving full steam ahead both on the field and on Twitter. As we did last week, we've recapped the most popular games on Twitter. The most tweeted-about were: 1.
Twitter Blog
Facebook makes major mobile play by allowing its data to be used ...
By Brittany Darwell
Essentially, Facebook will serve as an “ad exchange layer,” as TechCrunch calls it, that will add demographic- and interest-based targeting capabilities to traditional mobile exchanges that bid for placements on mobile ad networks. Many have ...
Inside Facebook
Google, Facebook, Amazon lead new tech lobby group - CNET News
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4 Quick Tips for a Better Twitter Header - Yahoo! News
[More from Mashable: Twitter CEO: Apple Is Our Mentor, Facebook Our Opponent ]. The header might be similar to other social networks' concepts, but there are ...
news.yahoo.com/4-quick-tips-better-twitter-header-10271039...
How LinkedIn Could Explode Revenue
DailyFinance
Today, LinkedIn (NAS: LNKD) , the world's largest professional network, is making bank selling its data-rich platform to recruiters and corporations. In the second quarter, its hiring solutions segment, which accounts for just over 50% of all the ...
Linkedin Corporation (LNKD) Reaches 10M Members in U.K.
Insider Monkey (blog)
Linkedin Corporation (NYSE:LNKD), the social networking site that has been exceeding market expectations ever since its IPO, announced early Wednesday that it has achieved a significant membership milestone in the U.K., as now 10 million people – or ...
Insider Monkey (blog)
7 Ways LinkedIn Can Drive More Traffic to Your Website
Entrepreneur (blog)
So the better looking your LinkedIn profile is -- meaning professional and complete -- the more qualified you'll appear to your audience and the more interested people will be to check out your site. 2. Increase your connections. A good LinkedIn ...
Entrepreneur (blog)
LinkedIn Branches Out: Board Connect Links Nonprofits to Board Members
The Nonprofit Quarterly
This week, LinkedIn launched Board Connect, a program that allows nonprofit organizations to identify and recruit potential board members. Notably, LinkedIn is rolling out Board Connect to a limited group of nonprofits working in the fields of social ...
LinkedIn Supports Non-Profits with New Board Connect
Marketing Pilgrim
Since LinkedIn is all about networking, it's the perfect place to find professionals willing to donate their time and brain-space to a good cause. Board Connect helps in three ways. It begins with an educational webcast designed to get board member ...
Marketing Pilgrim
NewzStand, the Facebook/Pinterest for news, has debuted
VatorNews
I'm the kind of person who really likes to be up on what's happening in the world, so I wind up reading a lot of news during the day. I know, being up on the latest news and trends is kind of my job, but I like to read about a lot of different things ...
SuperFastBusiness Identifies Techniques for Lead Scoring, Image Marketing ...
Equities.com
Schramko recently released his latest update to help businesses across the globe reach their sales goals through lead scoring, image marketing on Pinterest, and filtering customers. The Aussie-based CEO also recommends some key tools for optimizing ...
A Fun Day At Pinterest
By Trey Ratcliff
A few days ago I went to Pinterest to give a talk about The Future of Photography (and various other things), and I hung around after the event to snap a few photos. You can see me there (Trey Ratcliff on Pinterest). I had a great time getting to ...
Stuck in Customs
443 Enterprise APIs: LinkedIn, Salesforce and FedEx
By Wendell Santos
LinkedIn Our API directory now includes 443 enterprise APIs. The newest is the Swift-Kanban API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the LinkedIn API. We list 48 LinkedIn mashups. Below you'll find some more stats from the directory, ...
ProgrammableWeb
New LinkedIn Career Page Takes Your Employer Brand to the Next ...
By Thomas Sexton
Building a strong employer brand yields huge benefits for companies, so it's no surprise that over 70% of employers say it's a top priority*. Thousands of companies are using LinkedIn Career Pages as a powerful way to showcase their brand ...
Recruiting with LinkedIn Blog
LinkedIn Blog » Hey UK, You're One in 10 Million!
Today is a very special day for LinkedIn and our members. We've surpassed an important milestone – 10 million members in the UK – an achievement of which ...
blog.linkedin.com/2012/09/16/uk-10million/
4 Tips for Using Pinterest to Market Your Startup ...Do you really know how to use Pinterest to help attract people to your business? If not, here's ...
www.youngentrepreneur.com/.../4-tips-for-using-pinterest-for...
BBC News - LinkedIn reaches 10 millionth UK user
The professional networking site LinkedIn has announced it now has 10 million members in the UK.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19624075
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