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When you want to get some pretty good data on using social media for marketing, one of the best people to turn to is Dan Zarrella, Hubspot's social media...

There's a trend on Facebook that simply won't die. Many business pages continue to offer giveaways, contests, and even "exclusive" games on Facebook in...

There really is more art than science when it comes to getting retweeted on Twitter. For individual influencers and organizations with a lot of clout,...

The use of social media to report events has become a normal occurrence. Any time anything happens that is newsworthy, many turn first to social media,...

More and more people are deleting their Facebook and Twitter accounts because of all the advertisements that flood the page. What if I told you there was...

If there's one thing that could bring down the whole Twitter empire outside of a catastrophic meltdown of all of their servers, it's spam. Hackers and...

"Damn you, Facebook. I don't like you but everyone I know is on it. If I want to see pictures of little Timmy sliding into third base or hear what's...

The opinions that we express in the real world are often not congruent with what we post on Twitter according to a report from Pew Research. Just because...

They say you learn something new every day. I learned something about Pinterest the other day that blew my mind a little. Users like links. This might...

Twitter is still the most used social network by businesses. This surprises some, but the latest statistics showed that 77% of businesses were on Twitter...

There's a strange change that has been happening since the dawn of social media and that continues to accelerate every day. Teens are talking less to...

If it's possible to be a true filmmaker using only the 6-seconds allowed on Twitter's Vine app, actor Adam Goldberg would be the director, star, producer,...

No harm, no foul, lesson learned, you're data is safe. That's the message that Facebook gave its users with a recent blog post titled "Protecting People...

Anyone who has been on Twitter as long as I have (6 years I believe) knows that the site has gone through major transformations in the past. Lately, Vine...

It's hard to believe that Facebook is nearly a decade old. I can remember when it was just a social media toddler spreading across colleges. Oh, how it...

We are vane creatures. LinkedIn has been on a roll, lately. They seem to have come to grips with their status as a resume- and...

In 2008, Twitter introduced the ability for advertisers to buy promoted trends, a way of taking over a portion of the homepage to drive traffic to a topic.

If you're one of those who almost deleted your Instagram account but did not because you figured you'd give them one last chance to stop leaning towards the…

In an environment with a billion users, millions of business pages, and just about every company in every industry trying to play along, it's hard to post…

Facebook graph search has the potential to be a great thing for Facebook and its users. Perhaps more importantly, this is the first major play that Facebook…

One of the biggest old-school truths that is obsolete today is the idea that you should follow everyone on Twitter that follows you.

We all knew that astrophysicist Neil deGrass Tyson was an intelligent and witty man of science, an advocate for space and scientific exploration, and a…

While learning incredible things and meeting equally incredible people at the New Media Expo in Vegas, I ran into Triberr founder Dino Dogan.

One of the initial promises of the internet was realized when social media started taking hold a few years ago.