What is your strategy for creating engaging content online? Social Media Graphics. Instagram. What social media platform do you think you are most likely to still be using in 3 years and why? Small Businesses & Social Media Use. How to be reconized as SM Influencer. 5 Ways To Be Recognized as A Social Media Influencer. Can You Recognize A Social Media Influencer, When You See Them?
Well the obvious answer is yes, absolutely you can. Think of some of your favorite Social Media Influencers, why you choose to follow them and how they influence you personally. Although many of the effective principles are paralleled, leading and influencing in the world of social media can sometimes be more difficult than leading/influencing in a traditional leadership/work settings. The social media influencer has to lead purely through relational, cause and content equity. There is no positional equity, hierarchical leadership or formal boss. Social Media Influence is not simply about the numbers but rather about value. On the other hand @revrunwisdom is probably one of the most influential individuals on Twitter.
Actress @Alyssa_Milano is a social media influencer, not because she is an actress but rather because she adds tons of value by sharing relevant content, promoting causes, sharing her life and being herself. 6 tips for avoiding SM failure. 5 Tools to Schedule Your Tweets. With Hootsuite being down I saw myself and lots of other people in dire need to continue scheduling tweets.
So here is a list of 5 other services, which will allow you to schedule your tweets. They are all up and running. 1.) Twuffer Twuffer lets you schedule tweets on a clean interface and is completely free for you to use. 2.) FutureTweets is very similar to Twuffer and a service that is dedicated to allowing you to schedule tweets. 3.) In case you were looking for a slightly easier method, Buffer might be interesting to you. 4.) This is another interesting tool allowing you to schedule your tweets in order to remind yourself about things you don’t want to forget. 5.) Twaitter is another tool which might take a bit of time to familiarize yourself with. Ok, that's it I hope the downtime of Hootsuite will end soon and if you are in desparate need for another scheduling tool, I hope the above ones help you with it! Connect: Authored by: Leo Widrich. Don't make these social media blunders. Social Media Monday is a weekly feature that helps businesses and consumers understand how to use social media tools to their best advantage.
This week, Joann Whetstine, founder of HowDoIMarketMyBiz.com, looks at the top five social media mistakes that businesses make. (You can also find her on Twitter @howdoimarketbiz) Social Media is hot these days. No matter what the size of your business, you should be using Facebook, Twitter, blogging, YouTube and LinkedIn daily to get your content online, so you can be easily found and “shared.” Social Media should be considered another marketing tool, and it involves planning, strategic thinking and tracking metrics just as any another element in your marketing mix. The mistake comes when a business jumps too quickly to get its social sites up. Here are the top five social media mistakes that businesses make: Avoiding social media legal woes. This post is by Stephen Easley, vice president for government affairs and general counsel of F2 Technologies, a wireless data technology company.
He is attending his 25th SXSW Festival. Emilio Nicolas and Stephanie Chandler of Jackson Walker, an Austin technology law firm led a very lively discussion at a South by Southwest Interactive Festival panel, during which the attendees learned five very hard lessons about the state of the law on social media, blogging and beyond that every company should take to heart: International is the new local — Companies used to worry about complying with local state laws, and occasionally, federal law.