4 Twitter tools well worth checking out
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Here are 4 very useful tools if you are a fan of twitter: 1. Bufferapp – When you are browsing the web and come across interesting content you may not want to share it all at once. So what you do is click the buffer button and buffer will create tweets based on the article [...]
7 Tips for running Facebook Competitions
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It can be very useful run competitions on Facebook but there’s a few things not to do. 1. Don’t run it on your wall You should read the Facebook Competition guidelines and you’ll see that you are not allowed to run the competition from the wall. You need to run it as an application which [...]
Facebook take a big leap forward…
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At the F8 conference yesterday Facebook announced some major changes to the Facebook platform which were the biggest changes we have seen for a long time. Facebook now have over 800 million users with over 500 million of them recently using Facebook in one day which was another milestone for Facebook. One of the major [...]
Facebook on the move…
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Facebook are making significant changes to user functionality at the moment in particular around the area of your newsfeed and status updates. That’s the great thing about a bit of competition. Google + was released recently and will be rolling out new functionality rapidly. Facebook needs to ensure that it stays ahead of Google …
Using Facebook as a page…
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A few months ago Facebook implemented functionality which allows you to use facebook as a business page instead of using it as an individual. Companies wanted to be able to interact with other brands and people as a business instead of using their personal profile. At the moment this functionality is under used and is [...]
Is your Business a Social Business?
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Jeff Schick the VP of Social Business Software in IBM presented at a Dublin Chamber of Commerce event on Wednesday. The purpose of this talk was to let people know the dramatic changes that are happening in businesses at the moment due to adoption of social technologies. A Social business is a business that has [...]
Facebook Edge Rank Versus Google Page rank
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If you have been involved in Search Engine Optimisation you probably would have heard of Google Page Rank. Google ranks every page on the web from 0 to 10. If you create a new website you’ll start off with a page rank of 0 so Google will pretty much ignore you. When you earn some [...]
Social Search – The Train is coming…
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Over the last few days Google made a significant change to it’s search algorithm. If you are now logged in to Google and perform a search it will give a strong weighting in search results to content provided by or linked to by your friends in your social graph. This could be …
Social Networks – Show me the micro money
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As mentioned in my previous article social commerce is a big growth area this year in social networks but there are transactions for products that are typically of higher value and then there are micro transactions. Micro transactions are typically for very small amounts of money and the issue with these is that payment providers [...]
Social Commerce – How can we make money from social media?
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Last year a lot of companies jumped on the social media train but failed to see a return in investment. This year more and more companies will start to really look at how they can make money through social media and you’ll hear the term social commerce mentioned a lot. This is really about a [...]