Socialmedia

StumbleUpon’s New Front End Approach. StumbleUpon is a very popular social media sharing and aggregation site with over 20 million users.

They recently launched an immense user-end overhaul that changed pretty much everything about their site. Though they have just recently removed themes, groups, and blogs from their site, the new changes seem focused on directing users away from the site and back to using their toolbar, whether they have the iFrame or installed versions. Direct Link Removal One move that seems to have surprised many in the industry is the removal of all the direct links that point to content sources from within Stumbleupon. Now there is a single button for ‘Stumble This’ that when clicked transfers the user to an iframed version of the chosen content. This reason behind the controversy is that now that all content from the site is iframed, once logged into the StumbleUpon system, there is no way to remove the toolbar, always leaving you in the iframed version of their site. The Reaction. Dr. Shaquille O'Neal Dunks on Investing, Geekery, and Social Media. Social Media Etiquette: 12 Step Checklist.

Social Media Etiquette: 12 Step Checklist. Work Life / 2012 Year In Review: Most Engaging Australian Brands on Facebook #UBank #SocialMedia #Banking. On Twitter: An Open Letter to Non-Tweeters. Vine Quietly Adds Verified Badges for High-Profile Users. It's not exactly easy to tell if someone is who they say they are on Vine, Twitter's new video-sharing app.

Case in point: There's an account with the username Vine. Who is it? Hard to tell—maybe it's run by the company; maybe it's an unknown, opportunistic individual. Duplicate usernames and easily faked profiles mean it's difficult to ascertain the legitimacy of high-profile Viners (if that's what we're calling them). Super Bowl Ads 2012. By Erik Qualman | February 5, 2012 Super Bowl 2012 Top 10 Ads can be viewed here: M&M’s Super Bowl Ad: “My Kind of Party” Kia Super Bowl Ad 2012: “Dream Car” Doritos Super Bowl Ad 2012: “Man’s Best Friend”

Social Media Meets Video: Have You Tried CHILL yet. I know…I know….ANOTHER Social Media Platform.

YEAH Yeah…However we are after all in a growing technology boom so there will continue to be lots of new and exciting social media platforms introduced. We should maybe view it as an opportunity to get involved with something new and cool and NOT ..”OOOO MMM GGG…Another Social Media platform.” Ok, mini rant over. I am a bit of a self proclaimed early adopter and I really like to try all of the new social media platforms as I hear about them. I stick with the ones that are cool and that are beneficial to my brand, those that are not sort of fade away. Well, I signed up for Chill a while ago but it was one that sort of faded away. Facebook buys Gowalla. 5 reasons (some) companies fear Social Media. Social media has been embraced by millions of companies around the world.

But amongst the digital converts there are a number who actively avoid, and fear, engagement with social media for a number of different reasons. Sometimes these fears are unfounded and other times they are not. List of Social Media Management Systems (SMMS) Pain: Social Media Teams Are Challenged To Respond To the Distributed Conversations I’m starting to get a few briefings and requests from strategists LaSandra Brill, about new technologies that enable social marketers to quickly manage, maintain, and conduct reporting on multiple channels.

The issue of lack of scale is resonating with social strategists –as a result, the market is developing new tools that will help them manage them. This is one component of Social CRM, which if you haven’t heard about, please read the report on the 18 use cases of Social CRM. (Update: This is only one software segment in the overall Social Business Stack, which you should first understand) Above is the full report, feel free to read, download and share. Update: Jan 5th, 2012.

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Hardware. Social. Twitter. Branding. Resources/Tools. Registration. Gary Vaynerchuk Talks Geolocation and Answers Your Questions. Last week we asked you to send us your questions for our interview with wine connoisseur and social-media expert Gary Vaynerchuk.

Gary and his consulting company VaynerMedia recently ran an experiment with the NBA's New Jersey Nets and geolocation app Gowalla (in which Gary is an investor) to see if location services could draw fans to games with free tickets. For all parties involved, the experiment was deemed a success, and the findings from it have provided a unique insight into the future possibilities for geolocationtional advertising. As you may recall, last Friday during the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit, we discussed the potential road-blocks for startups looking to innovate in the localized mobile ad space. By using an existing network like Gowalla, however, the Nets experiment actually succeeded to bring in a significant amount of people to a game where thousands of seats went unsold. Online Social Media Principles. Countless conversations take place online about every day, and we want our Company’s more than 100,000 associates in more than 200 countries to join those conversations, represent our Company, and share the optimistic and positive spirits of our brands.

These Social Media Principles should guide your participation in social media, both personally as well as when you are acting in an official capacity on behalf of the Company. It is critical we always remember who we are –the world’s largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands – and what our Company’s role is in the social media community – to inspire moments of optimism and happiness and build our brands. The same considerations that apply to our messaging and communications in traditional media still apply in the online social media space, including on what you might consider “internal” platforms. Have fun, but be smart. 7-Eleven Selects Yammer for Companywide Enterprise Social Network. Cork'd Content. Coolspotters - Celebrity Fashion, Style & Beauty. Robbins Brothers. Mashable Meetup: Sydney, Australia. Gink: The Next Great Social Network? [PARODY] Sketch troupe Derrick Comedy has tackled social networking as the topic of their latest video by creating the next next-generation social network: Gink.

What is Gink? Well, it's simple, really: "Gink is a fun made-up word, combining the words gibble and spink, both of which are also made up. " Simultaneously parodying the proliferation of social networks and the dizzying array of specialized terminology that often comes with them, Gink goes off the deep end with an assortment of seriously delivered gibberish that would make Dr. Seuss proud. Check out the video below — warning: some NSFW language included — and let us know what you think.

Rewire the web. Pipes using 'foursquare.com' (93 results) 5 Unique Ways to Use Twitter for Business. **This series is supported by the Social Influence System and WE twendz™ pro, presented by Waggener Edstrom Worldwide.

To learn more visit Waggeneredstrom.com/nozombies. Customer service, recruiting, contests, giveaways and promotions — these are all standbys for businesses using Twitter as a medium to connect with customers and fans. Given that Twitter as a platform supports nearly limitless applications for business use, we thought it time to highlight some of the newer Twitter-for-business opportunities that aren't so obvious. From pitching your followers and rewarding Twitter loyalty, to keeping a trained eye on the Twitterverse, targeting smaller communities, and adding metadata to tweets, here are some unique ways to use Twitter in your social business strategy. 1. As part of Mountain Dew's DEWmocracy campaign, the soda company empowered Flavor Nations — fan communities for new Dew flavors — to own a flavor of soda that the company is now testing on the market. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Pet Community by Cuteness.com - Think Your Pet is the Cutest of the Cute? Prove it. BakeSpace.com - Recipe Swap and Food Social Network. 10 Fresh Tips for Community Managers. **This series is supported by the Social Influence System, presented by Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. To learn more visit Waggeneredstrom.com/nozombies. Gist. How to Use One Email Address with Multiple Twitter Accounts. Twitter » 100 tips essential to being a smarter better twitterer. Social Media Monitoring and Engagement – Radian6. Your Dashboard. 10 Social Media Monitoring / Analytics tools for Measuring Social Media. “I always tell people when they start talking about ROI on Social Media, well, what’s the Return On Ignoring?”

- Jeffrey Hayzlett, Kodak. ManageTwitter - Fast & Easy Unfollowing.