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Don McMillan: Life After Death by PowerPoint. What Are 8 Steps To Social Media Success. 3 Things to Know About Your New Pinterest Profile. Pinterest began rolling out new profile pages today (March 16) that put more emphasis on the people behind the photos.

If that makes you feel a bit self-conscious about your "pinning" expertise, we've got some tips on how to get your new profile in shape for pinner scrutiny. Who are you? The new profile page moves your name and description up to the top where it's far more visible than the old version. You can easily edit or add a description to help others get an idea of your interests. You will now see the three people whose photos you most frequently re-pin. Tweak your boards The order of your boards — collections of photos with common themes — has become more important, but it's easy to rearrange them.

Unfortunately, you cannot rearrange the photos themselves. Follow more pinners Pinterest said in its blog post that even seasoned pinners had trouble finding out who follows them and who they’re following. HootSuite. Anders Keitz (@AndersKeitz) sur Twitter. 新浪微博. What Is The Future of Facebook - Society? #video. KONY 2012: Is the Viral Campaign a Scam? KONY 2012, a documentary produced by non-profit Invisible Children, has gone viral in the past couple days, receiving millions of views on YouTube and Vimeo. The video has also, however, begun to receive significant backlash from organizations and publications questioning the authenticity of Invisible Children. Many of the negative critiques have been targeted at Invisible Children’s practices as an organization, not whether Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, is a war criminal.

Visible Children, a Tumblr dedicated to evaluating the legitimacy of the KONY 2012 campaign, raised some points Wednesday morning which have resurfaced in numerous publications. “Invisible Children has been condemned time and time again. As a registered not-for-profit, its finances are public. You can evaluate Invisible Children’s 2011 budget, which is public online, for yourself: $1,074,273 was allocated to travel and $1,724,993 was allocated to staff compensation.

The Twitter Impact of SXSW. There were 224 Tweets about South by Southwest on the first day of the interactive conference back in 2006.

That was the year the then fledgling microblogging platform became legitimate, largely because the SXSW crowd took to it so well. Quick and easy communication while you’re lost in a sea of people trying to find your friends was the premise that allowed Twitter to become uber useful, uber fast. On the first day of this year’s SXSW conference, there were 224,302 Tweets about it. I’m pretty sure 87% of those came across my phone in the form of notifications that made me throw it in my backpack and ignore it. Heh. My friends at Spredfast (client) put together a neat little infographic on the impact a relatively small group of people (100,000 users on Twitter were Tweeting about SXSW in the first 48 hours of the conference) could have while riding a theme (or meme) on Twitter.

Twitter Approaching 500 Million Users. Twitter’s tipping point into the spectrum of social media consciousness was in 2007, when it started generating significant attention at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival.

Since then the 140 character micro blogging platform has continued to attract both users and investors. In the 5 years since launching it has attracted significant investment funds with an estimated total capital raising of over $1.3 billion. The 2 most significant investments have been: Digital Sky Technology in August, 2010, which at over $800 million was reported to be the most significant venture round in historySaudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal on December 2011, invested $300 million. How to Make Your Tweets More Trustworthy [STUDY] Ever feel like you tweet something important, but no one believes you?

A recent study shows you how to boost the credibility of your tweets, making people take them more seriously. And it's not just marketing fluff; the study was conducted by researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University. Among the lessons for how to get trustworthy tweets: Gain followers and retweets, include URLs in your posts, have a profile picture, and fill out your bio with information related to topics you tweet about. The researchers surveyed more than 250 Twitter users to determine what factors do and don't lend tweets credibility. Then they scored that group of factors on a scale of one to five, five being the highest. Here are the top 10 things that make tweets more trustworthy, along with their respective scores: And here are the five least gravitas-lending factors for tweets: