- ARCHIVE / Social Media
- TweetClock
Check out this nice little app we put together with smarty-pants folks at GraphEdge. TweetClock measure your average response time to direct and indirect messages on Twitter. http://www.tweetclock.com
- Qwiki Will Win
Qwiki at TechCrunch Disrupt from Qwiki on Vimeo. If I could invest in Qwiki right now, I would. This remarkable new offering combines the power of crowd-sourced information (a la Wikipedia) and multimedia content to create a robust information experience. This is exactly how people want to get short blips of information content. Does the [...]
- Social Currency
Interesting offering from “Pay with a Tweet” which allows people/brands/authors/musicians to offer incentives in exchange for tweets. Learn more
- Social Media 101
For those of you just starting to establish your brand’s social media presence, here is a list of 6 things you should be working on every day. Download Social Media 101
- New Facebook Features Exposed in Accidental Update
[via Mashable] “Facebook accidentally went live with a handful of prototype features yesterday, including a site-wide yet short-lived overhaul of Pages. Roughly 45 minutes after the mistaken update, Facebook disabled the site, reverted back to its previous state and then tweeted apologetically about the downtime. But that brief span of time was enough for Facebook members and [...]
- PostPost
We are big fans of both FlipBoard and Pulse, so are excited about the luanch of PostPost, a real-time “social newspaper” that’s created from the links, photos and videos your friends share on Facebook. Mashable reports on the launch.
- Study Reveals Why Consumers Fan Facebook Pages
Great article from Amy Porterfield at Social Media Examiner “Nearly 40% of Facebook users who become fans do so to receive discounts and promotions and 39% become fans to show their support for a brand to their friends.” Click to read more
- When Are Facebook Users Most Active?
Great article from Mashable (and if you don’t read that site everyday, you should). We know that users are spending increasing amounts of time online on social networks like Facebook, but when exactly are users the most active? Social media management company Vitrue just released a study that identifies the days and hours users are [...]
- Your Social Media Audience
Here are five useful things to keep in mind about your social media audience. 1. Most of them aren’t paying attention when you want them to. 2. They are saturated with content. 3. Everyone wants a piece of them. 4. They expect something out of this relationship. 5. They chose you. Your followers can be [...]
- After Building an Audience, Twitter Turns to Ads
via New York Times “In the last two weeks, the company has introduced several advertising plans, courted Madison Avenue at Advertising Week, the annual industry conference, and promoted Dick Costolo, who has led Twitter’s ad program, to chief executive — all signs that Twitter means business about business. It’s Twitter’s biggest financial effort since April, [...]