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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...
Facebook’s first foray into physical gifts fails
They wanted to play in the world that Amazon and other companies have dominated for a while. They weren't asking...
New ways hackers are stealing your identity
As you read this, hackers everywhere are hard at work trying to obtain your personal information and steal your identity....
13 signs that social networking has taken over your life
It’s hard to imagine a life without social networks. I mean, what would we do without access to Facebook and...
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"...
Be thankful about real life on social media
Businesses are starting to get it. They once saw social media as a channel like many others through which they...
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...
Vinstagram? How a Vine-like feature on Instagram could change Facebook
Anyone who loves the Vine app for Twitter knows two things - it can be a lot of fun and...
#Instagram: the savior of small businesses
When a group of people from a business begin to engage in ways of promoting their businesses what are some...
Use social media to educate consumers… and possibly blow their minds
The days of businesses focusing their efforts on entertaining their fans on social media are behind us... at least they...
Four types of Facebook posts that businesses can rotate if they must
There are too many opportunities out there in the world of social media that makes it a bad idea to...
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,...
Social media is the leader in disaster response
What is the first thing that pops into your mind during or after a disaster? Well during the course of...
As Home fails, Facebook tries a lifeline with dock feature
The primary goal of Home, Facebook's Android app that basically takes over your phone, was to keep people more connected...
Social media loves animals. Thankfully, humans do as well.
If there's one thing that plays well, almost universally, on social media, it's animals. From pets to wild beasts, animals...
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...
Twitter and Instagram use rising for teens but Facebook is still the king
A social media study conducted by Pew (pdf) reveals some interesting facts about social media use by teenagers. One of...
Is social media privacy breached if it’s software that’s listening in?
Facebook and other social networks are employing keyword-sniffing programs that monitor our private communications such as chats and direct messages....
72,000 posts per hour leaving Tumblr shouldn’t worry Yahoo one bit
As Tumblr users cope with news of a new overlord, many are voicing both concern and annoyance at the $1.1...