October 2011
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When Should You Post on Facebook?
Researchers and bloggers and social media(ers) have tried to measure the best times to post on blogs, and Twitter and Facebook. Why? It’s important to know when you are most effective on your social media sites. If you want people to see your posts, you should submit them when the greatest number of individuals will see them.
Most studies show that posting before 8am and after 5pm will...
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Who I follow on Twitter, and why?
Do you run a company Twitter account? Are you on the fence about running a company Twitter account? Or, are you a Twitter user that follows your favorite brands on Twitter?
Then this post is for you.
I’ve talked about my personal rules for how many people I follow on Twitter. I believe that it’s difficult to manage my account when I follow more than 100 people. For example: when I...
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Blogger Etiquette
I read a lot of blogs. I don’t discriminate against genres, I read whatever I feel like reading, whether it be about social media, entertainment, sports, personal etc. I have my go-to’s and then I have the ones I frequent less often.
Here are a few things I’ve learned about Blogger Etiquette:
Blogging is meant to do two things:
Provide a place for the writer to express...
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Social Media Tips for the Holidays
Would you say it’s too early to already start talking about Christmas? Well the holiday season began last month for most businesses, so it’s time to get thinking about your holiday marketing efforts on your Social Media sites for 2011.
*I thought this was creepy, but strangely… it fits.
I read a great article today on Blue Glass about how to engage your followers on your...
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How does your Business/Organization use Social...
How much does your company spend on Social Media per year? Do you pay for a service or do you have a full time individual running your social media sites? Have you decided to skip out on this whole “trend” because it’s just a “fad”?
Did you know 79% of B to C companies use social media campaigns to reach their audience & 13% who are not active users plan to be...
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Nobody Puts Newsstand in a Folder [or maybe they...
So I’ve had a little bit of time to play with the new iOS 5.
Many of it’s features, I love. Others, I’m not sure I will use often. Most notably for me is the Newsstand app.
In theory Newsstand sounds cool. But I can’t imagine using it on my iPhone, perhaps my iPad… but I have not yet bought into subscribing to newspapers and/or magazines via the app store yet.
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iOS 5 Releases at 10am
Today is a big day for Mac lovers everywhere.
iOS 5 is scheduled to be released at 10am PDT today.
What’s on this new update?
iCloud - you’ll receive 5GB of space. When you plug into a power source all of your documents, music, movies, photos, etc. will be automatically pushed to your devices.
iMessage - now you can send unlimited messages to anyone who has an iPhone, iPod, or...
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Are YOU Talking About This?
You may have noticed the new “are talking about this” feature popping up on some of your favorite pages recently.
This is part of the new metrics system the social media site plans to roll out within the next month. This new feature will help page owners track who is (and how often they are) talking about the page’s brand or service.
How does it come up with this number?
The...
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Highlights from the iPhone 4s Keynote
I followed @Engadget and @gdgt’s live coverage of the iPhone keynote today.
Tim Cook took the stage today to announce the new iPhone 4s
New iOS features:
Notifications show up on the top of your screen and are visible by swiping down.
This new messaging service will push to your iPhone and iPad and you can respond from either device.
The new Reminders app.
Newsstand allows...
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