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Best Tweet Length

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 to...
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Facebook Gift

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 for...
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Hacker Guy

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. It’s...
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1 min read
Social Media Addict

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 Twitter?...
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2 min read
Facebook Contest

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” games...
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2 min read
Thankful

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 could...
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Retweet

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 with...
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Instagram Video for Business

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 it’s...
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Instagram Business

#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 of...
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2 min read
Education

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 should...
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Facebook

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 ignore...
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1 min read
Tornado Crisis

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, many...
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Hurricane

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 each...
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1 min read
Facebook Home Dock

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 on...
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1 min read
Machu Picchu Llama

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 dominate...
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App Dot Net

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. What...
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