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Kim Garst ツ sur Twitter : "Are you using these 5 ways to build trust on #socialmedia? #BeYou. Will the Real You Please Stand Up: Show Up, Be Authentic, and Prosper in Social Media: Kim Garst: 9781630472702: Amazon.com: Books. 6 Ways To Get Your Content To Spread Like Wildfire on Social Media. Here's the only way to delete your Uber account. Nokia Gets Back into Hardware with the $249 N1 Android Tablet.

Nokia has today lifted the wraps on its first Android tablet, which comes with a 7.9-inch display and 2.3GHz 64-bit processor.

Nokia Gets Back into Hardware with the $249 N1 Android Tablet

It’s also just 6.9mm thick. Other key specs include an 8-megapixel camera on the rear, a 5-megapixel snapper on the front and 32GB of on board storage. Interestingly, it also runs Nokia’s Z Launcher UI as standard It weighs just over 300 grams and will arrive running Android Lollipop. It’ll cost $249 plus taxes, Nokia said. The tablet will arrive in China for Chinese New Year before being offered in other regions. However, it’s not going to be a Nokia-made device, instead, a third party (Foxconn) will take care of the manufacturing and distribution, the company said. ➤ Nokia Announces N1 Android Tablet [Press release]

Google+ Pages Show Total Profile, Post and Photo Views. In an effort to shrug off its “ghost town” reputation, Google today updated Google+ with total content views for profiles and pages.

Google+ Pages Show Total Profile, Post and Photo Views

On any page, you’ll notice the new figure underneath the user’s profile photo, just next to where their follower count is displayed. It includes the total number of views for their posts, photos and profile page. Clearly, this is a move to prove once and for all what the level of user engagement is like on Google+.

Of course, that number will fluctuate depending on how many followers you have, how often you publish and the popularity of your posts. 11 Personal Branding Power Tips. You.

11 Personal Branding Power Tips

Me. Michael Hyatt. Popeye. Perhaps we don’t have that much in common. Ah, but we do. Inside a Twitter Robot Factory. Sean Gardner – Google+ - Good infographic here from +Simon Mainwaring. #infographic… 2morrowknight: The 36 Rules of Social Media... 5 Reasons People Favourite Tweets on Twitter. With approximately 500 million users and an average of 400 million tweets sent per day, Twitter is undoubtedly one of the most popular social media platforms.

5 Reasons People Favourite Tweets on Twitter

Increasingly so in recent years, brands have been embracing it for customer service, nurturing relationships with their customers, product feedback, promotion of their products and services, and generally boosting their online reputation. Reading between the tweets, psych firms help brands understand their customers. But wading through all that online conversation can be challenging for a small firm like Fifty & Five.

Reading between the tweets, psych firms help brands understand their customers

So it is turning to an emerging industry of companies that help businesses such as Vandenberg’s churn through thousands of Facebook and Twitter posts to better understand what customers really think. Some rely on linguistic algorithms, while others try to blend in a bit of psychology and more. Fifty & Five, for instance, uses natural-language processing software to sort tweets. Five LinkedIn Strategies You Haven't Thought Of Before.

Preserving Cabrini-Green's images In the sharp sun of an April afternoon, Nate Lanthrum walks through the remains of Cabrini-Green giving away what he has taken.

Five LinkedIn Strategies You Haven't Thought Of Before

Using Social Media's 'Side Door' To Gain Unprecedented Access. Want Marissa Mayer to notice you?

Using Social Media's 'Side Door' To Gain Unprecedented Access

You'd be better off sending her a tweet than emailing her your resume. The Yahoo CEO has said that the company receives 12,000 resumes a week, making it unlikely that yours will ever cross her desk. On the other hand, just last week, 11 of Mayer's Twitter followers pledged that they'd make Yahoo their homepage if the elusive CEO acknowledged them. Mayer personally retweeted every one of their requests within the hour. You do the math. Sites like Twitter — as well as LinkedIn, Facebook and personal blogs — serve as gateways to even the most hard-to-reach figures. Instagram expects to begin selling ads within the next year.

Facebook spent $1 billion to acquire Instagram in 2012 and is apparently ready to see a return on its investment.

Instagram expects to begin selling ads within the next year

Although no ads currently appear on the photo-sharing site, Instagram's new chief operating officer expects the site to be ready to begin selling ads within a year. "We want to make money in the long term, but we don't have any short-term pressure," White told The Wall Street Journal. A little more than six months after announcing it had 100 million active users , Instagram revealed on Sunday that more than 150 million people are visiting the site each month. Instagram also said that more than 60 percent of its users are coming to the site from outside the United States. How to See EVERYTHING in Your Facebook News Feed. Facebook introduced its overhauled News Feed in early March.

How to See EVERYTHING in Your Facebook News Feed

If you're one of the few who can access the new design, you may wonder how the changes affect what surfaces on the homepage. While Facebook's algorithms determine by default what appears in your stream, a few additional, new options give you much greater control over what appears in your News Feed. For example, you can choose to view only photo-related posts, music-themed updates, or posts from pages and people you follow via Subscribe (as opposed to simply users you're friends with).

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YouTube. How To Raise Your Klout Score In Five Easy Steps. Google Plus emerging as a back door to top search results. Google News results now prominently show results from Google Plus (Google+ or just G+).

Google Plus emerging as a back door to top search results

This presents an exciting opportunity for real-time marketers for newsjacking using Google+. How Google+ has changed since launch When Google+ first emerged in the summer of 2011, it looked to me like a direct competitor to Facebook. Not that the application actually looked like Facebook but that it played in the same market of social sharing and connecting friends. Will I Get Fired If I Complain About My Boss On Facebook? You may have heard about the case the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) brought against a company for disciplining an employee based on insults she posted on her Facebook page about her boss. As a result of the publicity this case got, lots of employees are posting nasty comments about their bosses on Facebook, tweeting about how awful management is, and then wondering why the heck they were fired.

But please, please don't post anything in any form of social media you don't want on the front page of the company newsletter. How To Deal With Individuals Who Threaten a Social Media Attack On Your Brand. Yesterday morning (Monday) I received this email in my inbox from an individual who had written me on Friday: Although this snarky email was apparently meant as a (unnecessary) joke (and followed by an even ruder email), it got me thinking about the threat of a social media attack: how they can be intimidating while opportunistic, and how companies and organizations should go about responding to such a situation.

The threat of a social media attack The threat of a social media crisis, attack, or even just negative publicity, can be quite intimidating. Especially when you’re aware of what can happen: reputational damage, loss of control, negative virality, a negative impact on your bottom line and everything in between.

Social Media Monitoring

Secrets to Leveraging the New Facebook for WordPress Plugin. All of us want to go social and reach the right people to promote our business, right? Here’s the master key to turning your WordPress website into a social platform; well more or less. It all depends on how social you want to be. The Facebook plugin version 1.0 was launched a few weeks ago and it’s all yours to explore.

Let’s talk about the secrets to leveraging the New Facebook for WordPress Plugin. 1. 12 Essential Social Media Cheat Sheets. Ann Smarty is a search marketer and full-time web entrepreneur. Ann blogs on search and social media tools. Her newest project, My Blog Guest, is a free platform for guest bloggers and blog owners. Follow Ann on Twitter at @seosmarty and on Google+. Underwater Drilling Camera Catches Giant Sea Creature. Visibli Social Analytics. How to Get a Boatload of People to Pin Your Products to Pinterest.