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15 social media tips from Dr. Seuss. This story originally ran on PR Daily in March 2013.

15 social media tips from Dr. Seuss

The older I get, the more I realize how smart my mother and Dr. Seuss are. Dr. Teachers & Social Media. And Edutopia Help Teachers Adopt Social Media Tools. 30 Resources, Tips and Tricks for Marketing Your Business on Pinterest. Pinterest was launched in March 2010 and this social media network has has grown more than 4,000 percent in the last 6 months according to Experian Hitwise.

30 Resources, Tips and Tricks for Marketing Your Business on Pinterest

It seems though that it is just starting to hit its straps as the latest figures from Hitwise reveal that at the end of January (in the space of just 3 weeks), Pinterest traffic has increased from 10 million users a month to 17 million! 5 Ways to Turn Twitter into Your Most Powerful Social Media Tool. Keith Keller on…TWITTER IS NOT FACEBOOK. (Audio Text) Hey guys it’s Keith Keller in Melbourne Australia and today I wanna share with you another Twitter quote to help you market your goods and services whether you’ve got a book or a CD or a movie or anything else, you are already awesome.

Keith Keller on…TWITTER IS NOT FACEBOOK

My job is to make you world famous. Today, Twitter is not Facebook. Now what do I mean by that? This is not a Facebook bashing session, I love Facebook but today I wanna talk to you about why Twitter is not Facebook. Twitter is the information network. European social media platforms for multinational SEO. We’re all aware of the benefits social media offers multinational companies to attract new international clients, increase brand awareness in a new market and even reinforce existing customer loyalty.

European social media platforms for multinational SEO

Yet many businesses are oblivious to the wealth of the international social media opportunities and platforms out there to help them achieve these benefits. For many, it seems that the term “social media” has become synonymous with the three major players in the field: Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just like any social media strategy, there are no “right” or “standard” platforms for going multinational; remember, your choice of platform(s) depends on your target market as well as the message you want to portray.

Identifying the right platforms Despite the general awareness of social media, many multinational companies still seem to be content with setting up a Facebook account to inform the public of certain events, initiatives, or campaigns. The situation in Europe Local vs global. Social Network Analysis 101. To understand social network analysis (SNA), you must understand what a social network is, and what a social graph is.

Social Network Analysis 101

Simply put, SNA is the analysis of social networks and a social network is just a network of entities that are connected by the relationship among the entities. This concept has existed since humans began walking the earth. The Science of Social Timing Part 1: Social Networks. Digital Skills Can Be Quickly Acquired. Blog.web100.com. Posted by Iryna Dubenyuk on Mar 15, 2012 in Intranet, IT, Web 2.0 | Comments Off Social tools debuting at the enterprise level face many pitfalls that can derail even the best laid plans.

blog.web100.com

A few IT leaders speaking at the Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise Conference and Expo in San Francisco last week revealed some of these social danger zones. Social collaboration tools from enterprise vendors such as Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Salesforce can help co-workers find each other over a vast expanse of departments and buildings to work on a project. Co-workers can communicate through text, pictures, audio and video. Employee blogs and wikis form a knowledge base that lets employees find answers to questions in mere minutes.

Are Google Glasses the Beginning of the End of Gadgets? The New Twitter Newspaper You Cannot Ignore. I don’t about you but I have noticed a Twitter newspaper bobbing in the Twitter stream over the last few months and the occasional few is turning into an armada.

The New Twitter Newspaper You Cannot Ignore

Even Guy Kawasaki (of Alltop.com fame) is tweeting his edition and Darren Rowse of ProBlogger is getting into it. So the new Twitter newspaper is gaining some traction and it is time to take a closer look. It is called paper.li and it provides 3 ways to aggregate your Twitter stream into a news format. It is very similar in its concept to the iPad app Flipboard, which displays news in text, video and images that are embedded in your Twitter stream First Version. How to Optimize Social Media to Kick Start Your Career. College freshmen can’t help but feel a bit of trepidation when they follow their Twitter feed these days.

How to Optimize Social Media to Kick Start Your Career

News of economic uncertainty and the attendant bleak jobs outlook are re-tweeted with ferocity across every networking site in existence. The irony accompanying this no-doubt troubling news is that the very modes of sharing bad news with students and others are experiencing their own period of unprecedented expansion. An embedded part of the online learning that makes up a huge part of today’s coursework, online social collaboration provides tomorrow’s executives with powerful marketing lessons. Played well, the very social media skills possessed by today’s university student, regardless if they are 18 or 35, might lead to that first good job even in tough times. Linkedin. Can social media be reliable news source? BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Amid the withering of newspaper revenues and the ascent of Facebook, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that social media refers to tools for connecting with others and sharing information.

Can social media be reliable news source?

These media aren't inherently transformative. They're tools with no fixed outcomes. All media are embedded in cultural contexts that end up determining how and why they're used. Each technology brings certain constraints and affordances, but ultimately it's about us. HOW TO: Block Google (And Everybody) From Tracking Which Sites You Visit On Your iPhone. How to Maintain Traditional Customer Service in the Social Media Age. Duke Chung co-founded Parature in 2000, with a vision to provide superior customer support software accessible via the Internet.

How to Maintain Traditional Customer Service in the Social Media Age

Today, Parature’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product suite supports millions of end users worldwide. You’ve been monitoring your Facebook wall and Twitter pages, responding to customer inquiries. How Are The Fortune 500 Embracing Facebook,Twitter & Blogging? The Fortune 500 are the largest companies by revenue in the USA and in 2010 Wal-Mart was the largest company on the list with revenues of $408 billion surpassing Exxon Mobil. These companies have a major impact not only on the USA but the world economy. Over the last few years the University of Massachusetts (headed up by Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D) has reported on the the current trends in social media usage at the big companies. This year for the first time she looked at Facebook’s march into the big end of town. Blog.web100.com. Posted by Elena Galitskaya on Mar 20, 2012 in Social Networking, Web 2.0 | Comments Off Any readers out there old enough to remember Bulletin Board System?

Or CompuServe? What about when ICQ was The Way in which everybody chatted amongst each other? Xanga was there for a minute, wasn’t it? The long and strange journey through Friendster to Myspace to Facebook to the next heir apparent, Pinterest, has been a labyrinthine trek through a lot of different social networks, some of which you’ve probably even forgotten you registered an account on and some you probably missed altogether.