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10 social media marketing strategy tips
The internet is rapidly filling up with social media experts, consultants, charlatans and everything in between. To sort the wheat from the chaff, it’s generally a good idea to listen to those that have walked the walk rather than just talked the talk. So then, it was interesting to listen to Luke Lewis, UK editor … Continue reading
News:rewired: how does the Facebook algorithm work?
The Facebook algorithm is a hugely impactful filter on the world’s biggest social network and who sees what, but how does it work in practice? To find out, it’s helpful if you can hear from the horse’s mouth and the recent News:Rewired conference in London saw Vadim Lavrusi, journalism program manager at Facebook explain the … Continue reading
WhatsApp Messenger price drop: Deal of the Day
It may have a silly name, but it’s certainly useful for those of us that like to chat and message across platforms whether your friends have an iPhone, a Blackberry, a Nokia or Android Smartphone (but sadly no iPod touch at present), plus it could save you on text message costs. It now supports group … Continue reading
Techcrunch and information overload
A few years back I used to scan and then clear out my RSS feeds everyday. Over time I’d narrowed the feeds I subscribed to down to a manageable amount and in twenty minutes could get through the days main news, plus the kind of serendipity you get from niche blogs to keep you on … Continue reading
Facebook micropayments
Facebook is expanding its Facebook Credits payments system across the site in a move to boost revenues from games and virtual goods. Facebook first introduced a limted trial of its Credits system in in May 2009 as a way for users to buy e-goods from the Facebook gift store and a small number of third-party … Continue reading
Facebook at home
Facebook is fast catching Yahoo and Google as US web users’ home on the web, having already overtaken MySpace and Microsoft in the past year. It has doubled in the past 6 months to nearly 30 billion total minutes usage, against Yahoo’s 40bn and Google’s just over 35bn. And why? Mobile access is certainly a … Continue reading
Social media statistics growth
Nielsen claims that the time spent on social media sites rose 82% in 2009 across the US, UK, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, with consumers spending more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009. Facebook accounted for an impressive 67% of social … Continue reading
Call for social media ROI statistics
There are endless debates in the industry about how to measure social media ROI and indeed even if you can or should. However, these almost exclusively focus on off-site activity on social networks, e.g. what benefits are there from a Facebook page or a Twitter profile. What is missing are credible statistics that cover on-site … Continue reading
Top 10 posts of 2008
In a sudden rush of originality and inspiration, I’m going to share surely the first ever list of 2008′s most popular posts! 10. Gearing up for something more useful The awful pun in the title didn’t stop the traffic as this look back at Google Gears’ first year scraped into the top 10. 9. Google … Continue reading
Quality, not quantity of social networking stats
A recent post seems to have struck a chord with Google with ‘Lies, damn lies and social networking statistics‘ currently among the top few positions on Google in a number of markets for the search term social networking statistics. As an update, Wired claimed in March 2008 that MySpace had an average growth rate of … Continue reading
