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100-115 characters: the sweet spot for getting retweets
When you want to get some pretty good data on using social media for marketing, one of the best people...
The wrong ways (and right way) to do contests or giveaways on Facebook
There's a trend on Facebook that simply won't die. Many business pages continue to offer giveaways, contests, and even "exclusive"...
The art of getting retweets (with addendums)
There really is more art than science when it comes to getting retweeted on Twitter. For individual influencers and organizations...
Reach versus inaccuracy: should social media be at the forefront during a crisis?
The use of social media to report events has become a normal occurrence. Any time anything happens that is newsworthy,...
App.net: Facebook without the baggage
More and more people are deleting their Facebook and Twitter accounts because of all the advertisements that flood the page....
One small step for Twitter, one pretty decent sized leap for spam haters
If there's one thing that could bring down the whole Twitter empire outside of a catastrophic meltdown of all of...
People care about Facebook privacy, just not enough to do anything about it
"Damn you, Facebook. I don't like you but everyone I know is on it. If I want to see pictures...
On Twitter, we like to spew vitriol
The opinions that we express in the real world are often not congruent with what we post on Twitter according...
Don’t upload photos to Pinterest
They say you learn something new every day. I learned something about Pinterest the other day that blew my mind...
3 things businesses need to know about their Twitter strategy
Twitter is still the most used social network by businesses. This surprises some, but the latest statistics showed that 77%...
The biggest reason parents join Facebook: yep, monitoring their kids
There's a strange change that has been happening since the dawn of social media and that continues to accelerate every...
If you want to learn how to use Vine, Adam Goldberg is the master
If it's possible to be a true filmmaker using only the 6-seconds allowed on Twitter's Vine app, actor Adam Goldberg...
It was the best hacking Facebook could have hoped for
No harm, no foul, lesson learned, you're data is safe. That's the message that Facebook gave its users with a...
Posting only links on Twitter means posting nothing at all
Anyone who has been on Twitter as long as I have (6 years I believe) knows that the site has...
Five fast and furious years of Facebook
It's hard to believe that Facebook is nearly a decade old. I can remember when it was just a social...
Clever LinkedIn promotes itself by congratulating others
We are vane creatures. LinkedIn has been on a roll, lately. They seem to have come to grips with their...
Trending on Twitter now costs $200k a day in the US
In 2008, Twitter introduced the ability for advertisers to buy promoted trends, a way of taking over a portion of...
Why did Facebook make Instagram evil?
If you're one of those who almost deleted your Instagram account but did not because you figured you'd give them...
5 types of Facebook content that make local businesses stand out
In an environment with a billion users, millions of business pages, and just about every company in every industry trying...
Mark Zuckerberg on privacy
Facebook graph search has the potential to be a great thing for Facebook and its users. Perhaps more importantly, this...