5 Steps to Hosting Successful Twitter Chats: Your Ultimate Guide
Hosting a Twitter chat is an amazing way to interact with your fans and followers, to better understand and grow your community quickly, as well as promote your brand and business. I’ve seen the networking and promotional power of the Twitter chat, so I made up my mind to dig deeper. It’s challenging to describe everything I learned in this one article, but I’ll do my best.
49 Social Media Management and Influence Measurement Tools
49 Social Media Management and Influence Measurement Tools Social Media Management is the business related function of managing multiple social media channels for the purposes of marketing communication, reputation protection, and customer acquisition. The practice utilizes the internet technology of social media to talk directly to individual customers and create a level of brand involvement and loyalty not possible with traditional media strategies. It reaches beyond marketing and into functions such as sales, human resources, and project management. Social Media Management was not formerly introduced in the workplace until late 2007, as social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter grew to extremely large user counts. It’s importance became more universally recognized for its effectiveness during the 2008 presidential election in which Barack Obama was able to mobilize a massive proportion of young population using a far reaching social media campaign. TweetStats: Graph your stats!
An In-Depth Look at the Science of Twitter Timing
If you’ve been following KISSmetrics for the last week or two, you have probably enjoyed our in-depth look at the science of blog timing and Facebook timing. Today, we’re going to take a deeper look into the ins and outs of Twitter timing. This includes how to determine: Where your targeted audience is located.When they’re most likely to view their Twitter stream.Tools that will determine when your followers interact with you the most. Twitter Timing Infographic
6 Posts That Build Engagement on Facebook
Aaron Lee is the social media manager at Binkd Promotion, a comprehensive platform for social media marketing through digital promotions and contests. He also writes social media tips on the Binkd Blog. Follow him at @AskAaronLee. When Mark Zuckerberg first built Facebook, the purpose of it was to keep people connected with their friends.
Twitter Micro-Video Marketing Strategies for Business – The TwitVid Interview
In today's post, I dissect the video platform and sharing tool TwitVid right on down to it's SEO visibility; and interview TwitVid's co-founder Mo Adham, where we discuss the business opportunities today with using Twitvid and video in twitter. We also discuss the idea that going super short with your video length, or creating "mirco-videos," is an effective video marketing strategy for the twitter crowd. TwitVid – The Video Hosting And Sharing Tool For Twitter As twitter users and most marketers already know, twitter limits you to posting 140 characters of text, which is referred to as a "tweet." But sometimes, as a user, you want to express more in your post to your audience on twitter.
How to Choose the Right Social Marketing Platform
Patrick Salyer is CEO of Gigya, the leading provider of social infrastructure for business. Gigya equips businesses like ABC, Pepsi, and Verizon with a comprehensive solution to socialize their online properties. While much of the tech and financial world has been focused on Facebook’s post-IPO performance, something else has happened that is starting to define the social marketplace. Savvy firms like Salesforce.com and Oracle have strategically gobbled up some of the top social vendors. These acquisitions signify that social business has become big business. The formulation of meaningful social categories is also taking shape, and marketers — particularly CMOs — should take note as they look to gain real ROI from social.
How Do You Deal With Twitter Mistakes?
The internet is full of examples of Twitter mistakes made by even the most professional users. Some that stand out were media sources announcing the death of the still giving Gabriel Giffords in 2011, the accidental leak of Listen With Friends on Facebook, and of course many direct messages posted as tweets that revealed embarrassing information. Such as when Michael Jordan’s son propositioned a porn star, asking her for ’round two’. But it isn’t just celebrity and professional accounts that lead to tweeting faux pas. Plenty of us have had a bad day and said something we wish we hadn’t out of anger, or accidentally tweeted a direct message we didn’t mean others to see.
Find 'Em On Twitter: 15 Twitter Directories Compared
Searching for people or applications on Twitter? Good luck with that. Since Twitter offers little in the way of people search features (though they now have a suggestion tool), your search for interesting and dynamic people to follow and applications to use could be a giant time suck. Thankfully there are more than a few third-party resources that you can turn to for finding new people to follow, and new tools to help you do what Twitter won't let you. We'll shed a little light on these 15 directories by separating them into four categories: applications, people, politics, and strictly business.
