Business Insider
Maintaining consistent branding across your social media and web marketing presences is important to your overall brand strategy. Here's the first in a series of articles on each social media platform and how to make the best use of the tools there to ...
Pinterest CEO says key to success was marketing, not engineering
CBS News
Pinterest skyrocketed to become the third largest social network in April. But, it might be the site's marketing -- not its technology -- that has made it the success it is today. Pinterest is a social network where people make image boards to share ...
LinkedIn Co-Founder Shares Secrets With US Vet
ABC News (blog)
A Stanford engineering grad and alum of various tech companies, Hoffman started LinkedIn in his home living room in 2002. After launching in 2003, it became the largest professional networking service, now with over 175 million members in more than 200 ...
ABC News (blog)
AWS EC2 Issues In North Virginia Affect Heroku, Reddit And Others — Heroku ...
TechCrunch
Minecraft, Pinterest, Foursquare and Airbnb are down. Finally, AWS's ElastiCache and CloudWatch are experiencing delays and connectivity issues. Heroku currently reports elevated error rates for both the production service and the development service.
Get noticed even faster with the improved LinkedIn
Bizjournals.com (blog)
For individuals, the LinkedIn profile now includes status updates, skills that can be endorsed by other users, sections for publications and specific projects, a Facebook-style home page and analytics on profile views (e.g., who visited your profile ...
LinkedIn users give thumbs down to Endorsements
V3.co.uk (blog)
In a bid to retain its relevance in the face of competition from Twitter and Facebook, LinkedIn has launched a raft of new features in the past few weeks. These include the ability to follow users who are not in your network, an overhaul to the look ...
V3.co.uk (blog)
Caiti Mondragon: Pinterest, I'm in love
Greeley Tribune
Only you, Pinterest, can light a fire about getting into shape and in the next click of a mouse show me heaven in the form of a cupcake. Yes, I will always choose the recipe for the cupcake. Thank you for helping me realize the power of a crayon. I ...
Cost Plus World Market Launches Its Latest Pinterest Contest with a Fall ...
PYMNTS.com
Pinners, it's time for a fall refresh! Now through October 26, 2012, Cost Plus World Market® (www.worldmarket.com) is holding its latest Pinterest contest with a fall theme. To enter the Fall Refresh Pin It contest, Pinterest users, or Pinners, need ...
Tiburon library to host workshop on Pinterest social network
Marin Independent-Journal
The Belvedere-Tiburon Library will host a workshop on the online social network Pinterest from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at 1501 Tiburon Blvd. in Tiburon. Pinterest is a virtual pinboard that allows users to share ideas and things they find on the Internet.
The Non-Technical Way Pinterest Grew From 3,000 Users To The ...
By Alyson Shontell
While Pinterest is now the web's third-largest traffic referrer, the photo collection site wasn't always booming. CEO Ben Silbermann told the latest Y Combinator class on Saturday that his site only had 3,000 users three months after its launch.
Business Insider
Why Marketers Will Have a Pinerly Pinterest Strategy in 2013
By John Lincoln
Will Pinerly be the next big thing for Pinterest marketers? Learn why you may be adopting a PinerlyPinterest Strategy in 2013.
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Social Media Idiocy of the Day: How I Got Forbes Featured On Buzzfeed
Forbes
I often write about social media disasters that befall brands, so it is with some consternation that I must acknowledge that I caused a small one for my own employer this weekend. On Sunday night, Buzzfeed writer Andrew Kaczynski noticed that the ...
Forbes
The Private Social Network: It May Be Just What Your Company Needs
Forbes
Most of the buzz about social media concerns Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the like, and how they can drive traffic and revenue for consumer brands. That social marketing hubbub is exciting, but it drowns out the quieter but much larger impact ...
Forbes
Social media firms still lack clear biz proposition
ZDNet
Popular social network operators such as Facebook and LinkedIn may have grown into successful, profitable organizations and will continue to expand with acquisitions, but the industry in general is still weighed down by the lack of a clear business ...
Social Networking: Technology is Key to Business Success
HispanicBusiness.com
Eight years after the launch of Facebook and six years into Twitter, businesses understand the value of social media. Now they must learn how to catch -- and keep -- customers' attention, particularly as consumers become increasingly distracted with ...
9 Social Media Myth-busters & charity champions (Part 1)
UK Fundraising (blog)
On Thursday's blog post [url=http://www.fundraising.co.uk/blog/2012/10/11/reporting-cfg-london-members039-meeting-social-media-and-fundraising-sessions]Reporting from CFG London Members' Meeting: Social Media and Fundraising sessions[/url] I ...
UK Fundraising (blog)
Does The World Need More Social Media Analytics? Kima Ventures ...
By Steve O'Hear
I'm not sure the world is crying out for more social media analytics, but France-based Kima Ventures obviously thinks it is. Today, the early-stage VC fund owned by Xavier Niel and Jeremie Berrebi, has announced that it's invested €100000 in ...
TechCrunch
IAB's Infographics Capture Social Media Ecosystem - Business Insider
By Laura Stampler
Capturing how paid, owned, and earned social media interact.
Business Insider
Facebook Gives a Gift to Investors
Wall Street Journal
A new product that extends Facebook's business from advertising into commerce is one of a series of initiatives that could help the social media giant make more off of its enormous user base. Rolfe Winkler reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
Wall Street Journal
Twitter Agrees to Pull French Anti-Semitic Tweets
Wall Street Journal (blog)
It has been a difficult few days for Twitter. After being hailed for its role as a route round censorship in last year's “Arab Spring” the company is now confronting the rigorous anti-hate laws in Europe. These often date back to the aftermath of the ...
Facebook's Shields to Become CEO of London's Technology Project
Bloomberg
Joanna Shields, Facebook (FB) Inc.'s vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, will leave the U.S. company and join a project to create a technology hub in London, according to the U.K. government. Shields will become chief executive officer ...
Twitter is exhausting the insignificant in the presidential debates: Kathleen ...
NOLA.com
The cleverest commenter gets a free, if short, ride on the Fame Wheel, usually at the expense of Mitt Romney, who, let's stipulate, is not the likeliest presidential choice of the Twitter generation. It doesn't help that Romney is so ... giving. During ...
NOLA.com
Twitter: New frontier of polling
Albany Times Union
"Just having a presence on Facebook or having a Twitter account doesn't, in and of itself, do much for it," said Forand, a partner in the firm Red Horse Strategies. "It's the opposite of 'Field of Dreams:' If you build it, they won't come. You have to ...
Facebook Gains as Tool for Terrorists Seeking Friends, UN Says
Businessweek
“Social networks like Facebook are taking on more and more relevance,” Germany's top anti-terror official, Hans-Georg Maassen, said in prepared remarks. “Terrorists can develop ties irregardless of borders.” Spokespeople at Facebook, Google and Twitter ...
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Roots Out Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), Twitter Apps ...
Statesman Sentinel
microsoft corporation Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s Xbox Live officially removed the Facebook and Twitter apps off the console, although these two features might not have been frequently used by most Xbox gamers but have been a part of the Xbox 360...
Statesman Sentinel
Facebook's week of reckoning is here
CNNMoney
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Facebook's second earnings report as a public company lands Tuesday, but an even bigger milestone looms later in the week: On Thursday, many of its employees will officially become millionaires. That's the day Facebook's main ...
Twitter Blog: This Week on Twitter: 22 October
By Twitter
Whether it's a live chat with the cast of your favorite TV show, a Q&A with a political candidate or a pro sports team Tweepstakes, this is the way to keep current on the Can't-Miss-Moments on Twitterfor the week ahead. - Ed. 22 Oct. - James ...
Twitter Blog
Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week
By Eric Larson
Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week -- 10/18 ... Apparently, when a pop star takes a photo of a pigeon, it gets shared on Twitter, like, 44,000 times. "Quiteliked (sic) this .... To leave a comment on this story, please log in with Facebook or Twitter ...
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Twitter Poaches Former Google Exec Matt Derella As New Director ...
By Drew Olanoff
According to AdAge, Twitter is taking this whole brand thing seriously, as it has hired away a prominent Googler, Matt Derella, to be its new Director of Agency Business Development. This is a huge development for Twitter, which as we've ...
TechCrunch
Help us Test the Social API with Facebook Messenger for Firefox ...
By Johnathan Nightingale
For the last few months we've been building the Social API – a way to allow you to plug your favorite social sites into Firefox – and we are ready to start our first Social API test with FacebookMessenger for Firefox. We're really excited about it ...
Future Releases
Firefox begins testing Social API with Facebook Messenger, here's ...
By Ben Gilbert
You live a fast-paced life, and you don't have time to stop your high-speed internet surfing just to check up on Suzie's latest Facebook update. Mozilla. ... 39 comments. Trending posts from Engadget on Twitter, updated hourly. Apple's iPad ...
Engadget
Should Nick Griffin be banned from Twitter? | Poll | Comment is free ...
Yesterday the BNP leader used Twitter to post the address of a gay couple and appeared ...Welcome {name}, you're signed into The Guardian using Facebook.
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Yesterday the BNP leader used Twitter to post the address of a gay couple and appeared ...Welcome {name}, you're signed into The Guardian using Facebook.
www.guardian.co.uk/.../poll/2012/.../nick-griffin-twitter-banne...
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