2 new updates are coming to the Google+ buttons you’ve all been using on your sites. Take note that for anyone within the Google+ Preview Group – all of these updates go live right NOW! First, Google is updating the +1 button sharing flow. Your users have been able to share from the +1 button for about […]
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50 Best Twitter Chats for Business & Marketing Students
The staff writers over at Best Colleges Online have put together a great list of 50 Twitter hash chats that are beneficial to business, as well as marketing students. The chats are categorized into several sections: Business Technology Marketing & PR Young Professionals Management & Leadership Entrepreneurship For the full list head on over to http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/50-best-twitter-chats-for-business-students.
Google Plus Pages Finally Arrive
Google Plus pages have been long overdue. I remember writing about them back on July 21st – and now, finally – 3 months later – Google Plus Pages have finally went live! As of now Google Plus users can head on over to the Create a Page tool and get started with their own page. […]
Twitter Launches Web Analytics
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Most businesses with any online presence, along with bloggers and webmasters, are aware of the benefits that Twitter can have on your business. There are SEO benefits, marketing and promotional benefits, and customer relationship benefits to name just a few. Fact is that you’re business or website has probably been mentioned on Twitter […]
Webmaster Central Hangout on Google Plus
Google has been quietly hosting weekly hangouts for webmasters allowing them to ask Google engineers various questions related to a specific topic chosen for each hangout. The next hangout is scheduled for Wednesday 31 Aug 2011 at 11:30am PDT for 1 hour, announced by Jenny Murphy earlier this morning. The topic for this hangout will be […]
Google Adds Inline Friend Annotations to the Plus Button
Many of you who are using the Google +1 buttons on your site may have noticed that as of last week you can now see faces and names of friends and contacts who have +1’d you’re page. Their new addition to the code now allows these annotations to be displayed inline rather than in a […]
Hello Heello!
[frame align=”left”][/frame]No, it’s not a typo. I really am saying hello to a ‘brand-new’ social network launched today called Heello (pronounced he-low), created by Noah Everett, the founder of TwitPic. Interestingly enough the launch of Heello came the day after Twitter launched it’s own photo-sharing service as a direct competitor to TwitPic – which ofcourse brings up […]
Rapid Purple Now On Foursquare!
Small business owners are using technology and social media more and more these days, and not just to advertise their business, but to learn about their competition and keep up to date on the latest trends. In my ever-growing effort to help Rapid Purple has now officially joined Foursquare! You’d be surprised how many business […]
Randi Zuckerberg Leaves Facebook, Starts RtoZ Media
Facebook Director of Marketing Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of founder Mark Zuckerberg, has decided to leave Facebook to start her own company, R to Z Media. RtoZ Media, will focus on helping companies become more social. “My goal is to launch my own innovative programming and work with media companies to develop their programming in new, and […]
Google Plus One ‘async’ Code Minified
Earlier on last week I had told you about the recent changes made to the Google +1 button and the launch of the new asynchronous button snippet. Thomas over at Web2.0Hub has taken the new ‘async’ snippet and minified it to make it even smaller. Not sure what that means? Essentially minification is the practice of removing […]
Google Plus Platform Preview Launches
In an attempt to keep everyone up-to-date, and to allow sufficient beta testing of new features, Google has announced the Google+ Platform Preview – allowing you to test updates to the Google+ button before they launch to all users on your site. When you’re logged into the account you’ve enrolled with and you visit a page […]
Facebook Launches ‘Facebook for Business’ Website
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]It’s obvious that social networking is a key part to marketing a business, and Facebook hopes their new Facebook for Business site will help business owners understand the various benefits of Facebook; and teach them how they can use it for their businesses. I have previously talked about how to create a social […]
LinkedIn Job Application Plugin Goes Live!
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]LinkedIn has launched a new plugin that allows companies to place an “Apply with LinkedIn” button on their job listings pages. thus allowing all those hunting for a job to apply for positions using their LinkedIn profiles as resumés. Any company can embed the plugin by adding an eight-line code snippet to its […]
Google Plus Business Profiles Are Coming Soon!
Christian Oestlien posted an update on his Google+ account today regarding Google+ Business Profiles. Since the Google Business Profiles concept has leaked out to the masses there have been tens of thousands of requests to be one of the first beta testers of these business profiles. Due to this demand Google actually made the decision […]
Getting Traffic from Social Sites
Social sites like Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon have become hot and are getting hotter all the time. Both online and offline businesses are jumping into social marketing – and for a good reason. It works! Many small online businesses are flocking to social media. In fact, one report states that utilization of social media by small businesses has […]
Google Plus Invites For Everyone!
It’s been fairly quiet lately, sorry. With the new layout slowly coming together – and a ton of new projects happening all at once I have been rather swamped. I can’t lie though – I have wasted ALOT of my free time on Google+; building my circles, setting up my sparks, etc. It all takes […]
Google Asks Businesses to Hold Off on Creating Google+ Profiles
If you’re one of the lucky few who got in on Google+ when the first few invites went out – chances are you’ve thought about making a profile for your business on Google+. It’s the natural thing to do – you have a business twitter account, a business facebook account, so now you create a […]
Creating a Social Media Plan
Creating A Social Media Plan
Happy Social Media Day!
Social Media Day is a global celebration of the technological advancements that enable everyone to connect with real-time information, communicate from miles apart and have their voices be heard. Toronto, O.N.; Las Vegas, Nevada; Victoria and Vancouver, B.C.; San Carlos, California; the state of Arizona; San Jose, California; and its sister city Dublin, Ireland, have signed proclamations that declare June […]
How To Profit With Facebook Advertising
Facebook is in millions of homes around the world. In fact, it has more than 500 million active users. (An active user is someone who has been on the site in the past 30 days.) On November 6, 2006, Facebook launched their advertising program. “For the last hundred years media has been pushed out to […]