Women and Social Media This post was written by Jenny Urbano, our Social Media Manager. Here at Demandforce, we love seeing and celebrating your ideas! And more than that, we love to hear from YOU. We want to bridge the gap between us and you, so that’s why we’re offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a trip to San Francisco, sightsee in this amazing city, visit Demandforce headquarters and share your ideas with us! 6 winners, and a guest of their choice will be flown out to San Francisco, California on March 12-14th, 2014, where they will stay in Union Square, spend a day at Demandforce, have dinner with the team, and explore the lovely City by the Bay! For contest rules, and how to enter, please visit our post in the Generation Demandforce Community here. Good luck!
HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Facebook Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. With over 200 million active users, Facebook has become a personal, product and corporate branding hub. Every brand that exists on Facebook has the same core features and benefits, such as the ability to create a page, share resources, add multimedia and much more. You have a unique opportunity to leverage this platform for career success or as a playground for you and your closest friends. The social graph is filled with CEOs, celebrities, entrepreneurs and people just like you who can be reached through Facebook’s messaging system without any boundaries or restrictions. Facebook is also a talent search engine and part of the college admission and corporate recruiting criteria. What follows is a guide to building your personal brand on Facebook. This post is part of Mashable’s Facebook Week. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Cool Infographics - Cool Infographics - Google(graphic) - How Go PPCblog.com brings us the Google(graphic) flowchart that documents what happens in the fraction of a second after 300 million people press the Search button every day. Created by infographic designer Jess Bachman at WallStats.com. So here is my latest infographic, hot off the press. How Google Works.
Facebook Will Celebrate 500 Million Users Next Week Facebook will finally reach the impressive 500 million user milestone sometime this coming week. To celebrate, it'll launch "Facebook Stories," a visual memorial to all the ways the social network has changed people's lives.All Things Digital's BoomTown blog uncovered the details in an interview with Facebook marketing guru Randi Zuckerberg last week. She said that while previous announcements of this nature have been about the numbers, this time the company wants it to be all about the users. That'd be empty PR-speak on its own, but she's talking about a real initiative: Facebook Stories will be a website within Facebook that'll sort actual, submitted user stories by location and theme. Theme examples given included "finding love" and "natural disasters." Each story will be limited to the same number of characters a Facebook status caps out at: 420.
LinkedIn by the Numbers [Infographic] LinkedIn is a social networking site that has rapidly gained popularity among professionals looking to connect with contacts, colleagues, and potential employers. Recently passing 70 million members , LinkedIn has become one of the most popular social media tools along with Facebook and Twitter. What Do You Check First: E-mail or Facebook? [INFOGRAPHIC] Where you start your digital day says a lot about you, according to a new study from ExactTarget, an e-mail and social media marketing company. If you check e-mail first, the company said, you tend to be more task-oriented and only interact with brands online when you need something, such as researching a deal, getting information about promotions or finding new product information. However, if start your day with a visit to Facebook, you might welcome "extracurricular" content from brands, such as interaction and entertainment that isn't directly related to a purchase or business transaction. That's not all the study explored: Here are the coffee-and-bagels versions of the findings (click for full-size images): So, which kind of Internet user are you: The kind who prefers e-mail and just-the-facts interactions with companies, or the social media-happy brand fan?
Internet Censorship Report – woorkup.com It is one of the tools used by governments to filter out unwanted information and to prevent the spread through the World Wide Web. It is a phenomenon of staggering proportions that affects over 25% of the global population. According to the latest data released on OpenNet Initiative and Reporters Without Borders 12 are the countries which have adopted a form of Internet censorship at a pervasive or substantial level. China, with a population of over 1.3 billion people and 360 million active users of the Internet is by far the nation in which the censors’ activity affects the highest number of citizens, followed in their list by Iran, Vietnam and Egypt. It is striking to note that based on these figures, approximately 1.72 billion people are affected by the Internet censorship: a significant information which corresponds to 25.3% of the planet population estimated to be 6.79 billion people. No data is available for North Korea. © 2010 Woork Up
Facebook Posts to Appear in Real-Time Search Results As of today, real-time results from millions of users' Facebook posts will now appear in search results on OneRiot, one of the world's leading real-time search engines. These Facebook posts will also be accessible through OneRiot's API, which powers more than 100 real-time apps around the web and on mobile devices. OneRiot already pulls data from blogs, Twitter, Digg and millions of other sources all over the social web. Having access to Facebook's nearly 500 million members, however, takes these search results to a higher plane by pooling a much larger dataset when finding and ranking links for search results. Facebook data that will appear in OneRiot search results include publicly shared links on user profiles and publicly “liked” stories from all over the web. Of course, the availability of real-time results from Facebook is great for app developers.
A Visual Guide To The First-Person Shooter A couple of quibbles here, on an otherwise great list. Disclaimer: I will mention some absences, because I'm scratching my head as to the exclusion of some extremely well-known and influential titles. Half-Life didn't deserve a bigger spot? Every article I've ever seen on FPS history pegs Doom and Half-Life as the two most influential FPS games of all time, and yet here, Half-Life is only included for "cinematic story" and not its innovative use of scripted sequences, which until that point, most developers had rejected as nothing more than "boo" moments? Optimizing Facebook Status Updates For Local Marketing Many small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) are awakening to the marketing potential found in Facebook’s massive audience, and have begun developing their Facebook pages to promote their companies. While posting status updates is a great way to engage with your customers, there are some ways to kick them up a notch to expand your promotional potential, and a few tips for optimizing your Facebook status updates. A large component of Facebooking is “preaching to the choir”—most of the people who will “like” you and follow you on Facebook are those who already know your company exists. Existing customers will search for you by name, and people might discover your Facebook link on your website. Marketing to this audience which already likes you and knows about you is certainly worthwhile for the sake of increasing sales and for retaining existing customers. However, you also want more customers and for more people to discover your business and think about it.
Are We Addicted to the Internet? This post was written by Jenny Urbano, our Social Media Manager. Here at Demandforce, we love seeing and celebrating your ideas! And more than that, we love to hear from YOU. We want to bridge the gap between us and you, so that’s why we’re offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a trip to San Francisco, sightsee in this amazing city, visit Demandforce headquarters and share your ideas with us! 6 winners, and a guest of their choice will be flown out to San Francisco, California on March 12-14th, 2014, where they will stay in Union Square, spend a day at Demandforce, have dinner with the team, and explore the lovely City by the Bay! For contest rules, and how to enter, please visit our post in the Generation Demandforce Community here. Good luck!