15 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed It's happened again. Another week, jam-packed with expert insights, has flown by. You've probably caught a few of the week's essential resources, but there's always that chance you missed something that could transform your social media or business strategy. Here at Mashable, we don't like to take those chances, so we've gathered up the week's essential reading and prepared this one-stop-shop for the guides, lists, interviews, and how-tos you may have missed during a hectic week. Get ready to dig into these 15 posts that will render you more knowledgeable and engaged when you come out on the other side. Social Media 5 Stellar Ways to Explore Space Using Social MediaThe far reaches of outer space have never been closer thanks to the wonders of social media. For more social media news and resources, you can follow Mashable's social media channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook. Mobile Business
TechCrunch 17 LinkedIn profile must-haves | Research Careers Blog Editor’s note: Neal Schaffer is the author of Maximize Your Social: A One-Stop Guide to Building a Social Media Strategy for Marketing and Business Success. If you’ve been in today’s job market for more than five minutes, you know that it’s a complex, competitive, even cutthroat environment that’s difficult to navigate. Not only is the market overflowing with highly qualified individuals, but to complicate matters, the job search and application functions of yesteryear are no longer valid. If you simply update your résumé and (e-)mail it off to a hiring manager, you’ll probably be left twiddling your thumbs for a long, long time while other applicants get all the interviews. Whether you like it or not, you need to take your job search on the social media road. LinkedIn continues to evolve at a fast pace but many job seekers’ profiles are stuck in past years. If you’re asking, “Why LinkedIn?” Whatever activity you do on LinkedIn, it will always lead people back to your profile. Ouch.
Los Angeles Beach Cities Real Estate Team - L.A. Beach Cities Real Estate Team 38 New Social Media Resources You May Have Missed Another busy week at Mashable HQ has yielded another mega list of tools and resources for your reading pleasure. Check out our Social Media section for tips on how turn any video viral, find out why the web loves cats so much, or simply determine what kind of geek you are. Tech & Mobile is packed with tools like top blogger templates, Photoshop tutorials, and tips for beginners when it comes to PHP programming. Looking for even more social media resources? Social Media 7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for TeachersDo you want to use social media in your classroom but aren't sure how to get started? For more social media news and resources, you can follow Mashable's social media channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook. Tech & Mobile For more tech news and resources, you can follow Mashable's tech channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook. Business HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags to Boost Your Job SearchJob postings.
10 Blended Social Media Marketing Strategies A Company Might Want To Consider We have been talking a lot lately about… talking. When we should be doing a lot more… doing. So the thought for this post, interestingly enough, bubbled up from a client request, that I should supply a document that mapped out the ways that you can blend social media into your marketing mix. 1) Twitter. Time suck rating: Depending on how much you want to monitor and participate. Use case: Created structured conversations around hashtag to create community, market under the radar, build credibility and lead source. 2) Search is not going away soon. Time suck rating: Extensive. 9/10 Use case: Created reputation management program built on all elements of search using Flickr micro-websites, robust white hat SEO tactics and product specific blog sites. 3) Social Bookmarking- In recent years, social bookmarking has become more sophisticated, somewhat diminished and yet no less important. Time suck rating: Not bad 3/10 4) YouTube-Video is permeating our lives. Time suck rating: Nominal 5/10
Study: Males vs. females in social networks Posted in Tech blog on November 27th, 2009 by Pingdom UPDATE: There is a more recent post available, Social network demographics in 2012. Have you ever wondered how many of Twitter’s users are women? Or men? What about Facebook, MySpace, Digg, LinkedIn, and other sites in the social media sphere? We have tracked down this information for a number of social network sites (19 of them). Full list of sites in this mini study: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Slashdot, Reddit, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, FriendFeed, Last.fm, Friendster, LiveJournal, Hi5, Imeem, Ning, Xanga, Classmates.com, Bebo. To determine the ratio between male and female users on these sites we used site demographics data for the United States gathered from Google’s Ad Planner service. Male/female site user statistics Before we move on to the chart, here are a few quick observations based on the results we got. And here’s a chart with the male/female ratio for all the sites, for your viewing pleasure: The big question
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