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Is your social media campaign on track? [Infographic] Following the success of our webinar on social media: ‘ Is your social medial campaign on track?’ we have put all our hints and tips into an infographic. The infographic covers how to interact and increase brand engagement within the three main social platforms, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, in order to create a starting point for those who may be new to this arena. Our Social Media Executive, Tim states: “Social is still really new in the grand scheme of things, and is evolving all the time. We know from experience what techniques are more likely to work for SMEs and which ones could be harmful to their brand image.
12 Leadership Traits You Need to Thrive in Tough Times Trying to grow your business in this sluggish economy is a little like trying to swim through Jell-O. Ineffective or uncertain leaders definitely need not apply. So what does it take to lead a small business through this ongoing economic mess? The blogosphere is humming with ideas lately. Here's a roundup of the important traits for entrepreneurs in 2012: 1.
Twitter-Mining Captures Global Mood Patterns Hourly changes in average positive (top) and negative (bottom) affect, arrayed by time (X-axis) and day (color). (Golder et al./Science) 4 Ideas for Better Social Media Measurement Adam Singer | August 9, 2012 | 0 Comments inShare52 Measuring social as part of a formalized process will provide insight into your results and help you make data-driven decisions.
Replay it: Google search across the Twitter archive - (Private Browsing) Since we first introduced real-time search last December, we’ve added content from MySpace, Facebook and Buzz, expanded to 40 languages and added a top links feature to help you find the most relevant content shared on updates services like Twitter. Today, we’re introducing a new feature to help you search and explore the public archive of tweets. With the advent of blogs and micro-blogs, there’s a constant online conversation about breaking news, people and places — some famous and some local. Tweets and other short-form updates create a history of commentary that can provide valuable insights into what’s happened and how people have reacted. We want to give you a way to search across this information and make it useful.
How to Use Twitter for Information Mining Twitter is fun. It's also a powerful research tool. People increasingly use Twitter to share advice, opinions, news, moods, concerns, facts, rumors, and everything else imaginable. Much of that data is public and available for mining. Here's how to use Twitter to gather useful information about topics, companies, and individuals. The 10 Commandments of Social Media This is part of Caitlin's social media manager series, dedicated at ways to help social media managers improve their tactics, tools and best practices to make them more effective. You can follow all Caitlin's editorial contributions here. Thou shalt not lose sight of the fact that you are not a God. In social media, it’s easy to get lost in a completely man-made, digitally driven world. Every social media manager has worlds of varying sizes.
Free social media analytics tools - a roundup - (Private Browsing) Businesses of every size are beginning to realise the importance of social media marketing. With tools like Twitter and Facebook, small businesses can connect with existing and potential customers with an ease and immediacy that would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago. But measuring success on social media can be more difficult. How do you work out how well you are performing across these channels? How do you decide what is working and what is not? Top Twitter Analytics Tools - (Private Browsing) With hundreds of add-on tools, Twitter certainly has plenty of ways you can analyze its data. I set out to find the best tools that I would recommend for you to track and compare your own Tweets, as well as examine the growth of followers and when you actually send out your 140-character missives. My two faves are TweetStats and Twittercounter.
Forever Heavy. Web Design and Development Greensboro NC June 20, 2010 Drupal is an incredibly rich platform for content management, but its not always a walk in the park for front-end developers who need a quick solution. At the risk of insulting hardcore Drupal developers everywhere, here are some quick tips and useful snippets to help save you hours of development time and assist in keeping the hair-pulling-out to a minimum (hopefully). 1. Limit Blocks of Code Based on Authentication Status and Role 2. Place Block Regions In Any Template File 3. 10 New Twitter Tools That Will Get You Tweeting Whether you’re new to Twitter or an experienced user, Twitter tools make everything easier. Here are some of my favorite new tools to make Tweeting easier and more useful for any user. Try one or two that looks useful and leave a comment in the box at the bottom if you like.