Our take on what’s happening in the world of social media and word of mouth marketing: the good, the bad, and the buzz-worthy!
We’re excited to welcome guest blogger, Chris Treadway, today who wanted to respond to our blog post from last week about the Value of a Facebook Fan.
Measuring social media success has been a hot button issue since the first business spent the first hour on social media engagement. Often times, pundits will point [...]
by Kristen Malzone
Last night, I got the chance to spend some time with the of the Live Off Groupon contest winner: Josh Stevens (@Groupawned). I learned a lot about the challenges he has faced so far and how he has utilized social media to overcome those challenges. We ate dinner at Oliva on the Lower [...]
by Dave Kerpen
In today’s Watch Me Wednesday video, I poll a few new summer Buzz Builders on their opinions about the “Like” button and what it means for the future of the internet.
One Buzz Builder suggested that the “Like” button allows businesses to gain immediate feedback from their audience as well as increase traffic on [...]
By Amy Slife
Social media novices and companies who have yet to enter the space might be the first to say the social sharing medium is a fad, but the growth numbers for many social media platforms should show anyone questioning the staying power of social media otherwise. According to a Nielsen survey of February 2010 [...]
by Devin Sugameli
In the wake of all the news surrounding Facebook’s changes to its Privacy Policy, many found themselves scrambling to make adjustments accordingly. But there are plenty of privacy settings on Facebook that have been available for a while that you may have missed earlier. Below are our top 5 most important old and [...]
by Leo Mikinberg
If you haven’t already heard the buzz, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the Facebook team have announced a new initiative that may change the way you interact with Facebook and the rest of the web. The new “Like” button is part of a larger project called Open Graph, which is an attempt [...]
By Dave Kerpen
In today’s Watch me Wednesday video, I talk about Facebook’s upcoming foray into location-check ins as widely reported in sites such as AllFacebook and Ad Age. But what I’ve seen very little written about is the potential tie-in between Facebook location-check in and its’ virtual credits. Facebook Credits [...]
by Claudia Titolo
SN-Reach is an analytical social network marketing company. Until recently, sharable links were unable to track exactly how many people they’d reached, or share much in the way of clear and detailed feedback. SN-Reach promises to fill that data gap with their Facebook application which creates your own branded page on Facebook [...]
by Kristen Malzone
Epic Change recently launched a campaign called #ToMamaWithLove to honor moms across the globe and to raise funds to invest in one remarkable mama who dreams of building a home for children in her village. Meet Mama Lucy. She is the mother to an entire school in Arusha, Tanzania and it is one [...]
by Devin Sugameli
Facebook’s latest round of privacy policy updates have been the subject of much debate and even criticism since their unveiling on April 22nd. If you’re even remotely concerned with the amount of information you share publicly, it would behoove you to take a tour of the new privacy settings pages and make [...]
