Sherrilynne Starkie
JULY 19, 2012
Good new for Android users! Now you can use voice commands to use Facebook thanks to a new app, Friends Aloud , created by VoiZapp Inc. It lets users access, listen to, and post status updates and comments – all by voice. Some voice command features include: •hearing the latest Facebook newsfeed posts and comments read out. •dictating status updates, comments, and “like” friends’ posts.
SocMed Sean
JULY 8, 2012
A while back, I asked a fairly straight-forward question on my Facebook page : What is your social media pet peeve? Mine is people who just post quotes all day long, thinking they are being inspirational. What’s yours? The number and variety of responses I got was amazing, so I thought I’d digest them into categories. The value, here, is to help each of us understand what irritates other people in the realm of social media.
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Mindjumpers
JULY 2, 2012
Tweet ??The diligent reader of the Mindjumpers blog will have noticed that visual communication is a much-discussed topic here on the blog: Instagram , video sharing apps , visual storytelling and much more. The reason why we post so much about this subject is that we think brands should highly prioritise this way of creating user engagement in their social media strategies in order to build a strong brand identity.
Firebelly
JULY 18, 2012
Ask for unlikes? I thought we wanted likes. At the AllFacebook Conference, one of the panelist suggested asking fans to unlike your Page. You could hear a few gasps around the room, but it actually makes a lot of sense when you think about. Let’s say you neglected advice about giving away an iPad to grow your community. Now you have a couple thousand fans – big deal.
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Waxing UnLyrical
JULY 18, 2012
What do you get when you combine a U.S. Army Veteran, a Yale graduate, an investor, an entrepreneur and a gourmet food truck pioneer? The answer: Jeff Kelley. No, he isn’t five different people, he is just one person, and one extremely interesting person at that. I first met Jeff Kelley at UnCurbed DC, “a traveling restaurant that brings the enjoyment of the food truck experience off the curb and into various vacant spaces.”.
Jason Yormark
JULY 19, 2012
The following is a guest post from Matt Davidson, an extremely talented search marketer. In an effort to bring more content and digital marketing expertise to my blog, I’ve brought Matt on to periodically contribute here. More information about Matt can be found below. I’m a very analytical person. I like to use logic and numbers in any decision that I make.
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SocMed Sean
JULY 24, 2012
Hang around any medium or large business for a while and you’ll start hearing many of the same corporate buzzwords. Phrases like: Ping me if you need me! Let’s figure out how to be more collaborative ! How can we be more innovative ? Are their opportunities for synergy between these projects? Can we put together a cross-functional team? All phrases based on buzzwords that often are nebulous in their meanings, which means they’re difficult to measure.
Mindjumpers
JULY 13, 2012
Tweet People walk around with small computers in their pockets. Smartphones let us share real time events and connect with each other anywhere, anytime. As we have written in a previous post about social media mobile usage , more than half of all Facebook users are mobile. These numbers put together means that nearly 360M Facebook users check the app on their mobile device on a daily basis.
Justin Levy
JULY 10, 2012
Do you want to improve visibility, communication and accountability of social media within your company? It’s as simple as sending a project dashboard on a regular basis to a broader team. Really. That’s the magic pill. It seems so simple yet not enough of us do it. Instead, we complain that there are silos or that people don’t understand that corporate social media is more than just tweeting and status updates.
Waxing UnLyrical
JULY 12, 2012
“Why you stink.” These headlines always seem to magically know more about that thing we’ve always known deep down about ourselves, no matter how well we’ve resigned ourselves to it, shut out the world’s criticism of it, or – er – deodorized it. Hope springs eternal. We all know we’re not perfect… even at the things everyone we meet seems to think we’ve perfected.
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Firebelly
JULY 31, 2012
Curation is the big new buzzword this year in social media circles — collecting information in a strategic amassing of selected information that’s presented in a new way to draw out the subtleties and patterns that might not otherwise be noticed when looking at the group in toto. Curation is an art form into itself. While it’s not as pure and noble as content creation, it’s more than aggregation.
Sherrilynne Starkie
JULY 28, 2012
LinkedIn rolled out a new look and feel for its homepage this week. The simpler and cleaner design makes it easier to navigate the page; it’s starting to look a bit like a Facebook timeline. LinkedIn has refreshed the look and feel of updates in the stream with richer visuals for easier scanning and viewing. There is also a continuous stream of updates with no need to click to “see more”.
SocMed Sean
JULY 10, 2012
Social and mobile…they go together like peanut butter and jelly. But, like anything else, too much of a good thing can be bad for you. The fact that our mobile devices are so portable means they go everywhere with us. And the reduced price of smartphones and data plans means that our social channels tend to go wherever our mobile devices go. With our phones, we can now look up local restaurant reviews on Yelp, share photos of unique items we find at stores via Instagram or Facebook and eve
Mindjumpers
JULY 11, 2012
Tweet Written by Christina Bruun who works as Social Designer at Mindjumpers. Facebook is constantly updating their settings and lately they have started focusing more and more on visual content. The latest update was in the beginning of June, where they among other things made wall photos larger in the News Feed. This of course means that you will have to higher the quality of your posts to avoid that users hide or unlike your page.
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The Realtime Report
JULY 17, 2012
Users are not happy with Facebook, according to a survey released today by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). But Google+, a newcomer to the survey, tied for the highest score in the Social Media category. Facebook was already the lowest-scoring e-business company on the index, and this year suffered the largest decline in customer satisfaction, dropping 8% to a satisfaction level of only 61 (out of 100).
Waxing UnLyrical
JULY 10, 2012
On my way home from work yesterday, I was listening to NPR, and heard an interview with Debra Lee , the CEO of BET (aka Black Entertainment Television). At one point, she was asked who she defines as her competition, and she said (I quote): “Everyone. Anyone that’s fighting for eyeballs, whether it’s a cable network, video game, movie theater — I define my competition as any entertainment outlet that’s fighting for eyeballs.” Image: dietadeporte via Flickr, CC
Firebelly
JULY 23, 2012
The Firebelly crew wishes the Colorado theater shooting victims’ loved ones our sincere condolences. I was unsure if I wanted to compile this round-up. I didn’t want to come off as opportunistic or insensitive. When tragedy strikes, however, social media sites are frequently the first places traditional news sources (along with worried family and friends) turn to for more information.
Sherrilynne Starkie
JULY 13, 2012
Canadian Internet Registration Authority (Photo credit: davidcrow). The 1987 goes down in my history as the year I met my husband. (It took me another six years to get him to the alter, but that’s another story.) But 1987 was also important because it’s the year that the. CA domain was launched. The responsibility for the.CA domain was originally assigned to John Demco at the University of British Columbia (UBC) by Jon Postel , operator of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IA
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Webbiquity SMM
JULY 9, 2012
Recommendations and reviews are common in the consumer world, where customers routinely yelp, buzz and epine about everything from air conditioners to yard ornaments. Search for any local restaurant, retailer or other establishment and customer reviews are almost certain to be featured prominently in the results. Online shopping sites host reviews of products and sellers, and Angie’s List built an improbable business on ratings of household services companies.
Mindjumpers
JULY 24, 2012
Tweet It is always important to draw up guidelines for how to manage your social media channels – both for the everyday community management and if your brand changes community manager. An example could be guidelines for editorial planning to strengthen the identity of your community, to create and plan content and to monitor feedback. However, a community manager must always consider thoroughly every piece of content before posting – using his own judgement and the guidelines.
The Realtime Report
JULY 23, 2012
Regular social media use can stave off depression among older users. According to a study by by Shelia Cotton, a sociologist at the University of Alabama, Internet and social media users over the age of 50 may reduce their chances of suffering from depression by one-third compared to those who do not participate in social media. Cotton’s analysis include 8,000 men and women over the age of 50.
Waxing UnLyrical
JULY 11, 2012
Guest post by Danny Brown. Social media listening. Social media monitoring. Social media tracking. Social media intelligence. There are many descriptions of how we can use social media as a listening tool , to complement (or replace) our more interactive approach where we converse too. While the idea behind social media listening is cool – after all, who doesn’t want to know what’s being said about them, by who and when?
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Firebelly
JULY 10, 2012
No matter what the session topic was at the AllFacebook Marketing Conference , when it came time for Q&A, the same question was frequently asked: “How often should we update our Facebook page?”. Answers given were as varied as the presenters. Here’s a compilation: “Once a day.”. “At least once a day and at a consistent time so that people can rely on it.”.
Sherrilynne Starkie
JULY 23, 2012
The Social Capital 2012 conference took place on Saturday in Ottawa and more than 220 people turned up to share and learn about the latest in social media thinking, issues and technologies. One highlight was Kelly Rusk’s session on using social media for research. Kelly discussed how to effectively research the social web to understand how people interact with each other, organizations and brands.
Webbiquity SMM
JULY 31, 2012
I’ve spent several weekends this summer experiencing the excitement and trepidation of visiting colleges with my eldest offspring. The adventures have been eye-opening (college life has changed a lot since the 90s) and, sitting late last week in another university presentation, it occurred to me that there are lessons to be learned for social media marketers from the way colleges handle this process: (at least) nine of them.
Mindjumpers
JULY 25, 2012
Tweet We often post about the importance of finding the right conversational touch points in order to engage your target group in conversations based on your values and beliefs. Also, the importance of monitoring and listening is a much-discussed topic here on the blog. We put emphasise of these issues because of the importance of getting to know who your users are and to reveal what trends and demands that are being talked about.
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Justin Levy
JULY 3, 2012
With the emergence of companies moving towards becoming a social business , scaling social media within the business becomes even more important. If done correctly, social media becomes embedded into most functions within the business ranging from customer support to sales to email marketing to communications to product marketing and so on. Scaling social media, especially within an enterprise-level company, can be hard.
Waxing UnLyrical
JULY 19, 2012
I’ll admit that it’s fun to bash Klout. They are on the front lines of the Wild West of determining influence, and who is doing that influencing, online. Posts have been written ad nauseam (including on this blog, though they’re not the nauseating kind) on the plusses and minuses of Klout’s service , but I think I’ve finally nailed down what bothers me about the service (which I’m still a member of and will continue to use).
Firebelly
JULY 9, 2012
Here are 5 must-reads on new changes Twitter made to its search functionality we don’t want you to miss. Simpler search. By Frost Li Today we’re introducing search autocomplete and ‘People you follow’ search results to twitter.com. In addition to recent improvements like related query suggestions, spelling corrections and more relevant search results, these updates make it even easier to immediately get closer to the things you care about.
Sherrilynne Starkie
JULY 25, 2012
Registration for the IABC Canada Summit is now open. The conference takes place on Nov 1st – 3rd at Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier — three days of learning aligned with emerging trends and technologies — capped with a dash of social, Silver Leaf Gala, Haunted Walk and “Dinearound.”. Workshops include: • Survival guide to the new social workspace. • The 10 most powerful questions in strategic communications. • Quick and painless ways to add multimedia. • Career planning for comm
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