Do we really need another social network? Perhaps. A new social network website called Koowie has been launched. [Read more…]
Survey Shows Marketing Budgets to Increase Spend in Social Media, Search Engine Marketing in 2011
An annual marketing budget survey of business-to-business marketing trends released today is showing that marketing departments are going to increase their budget in Social Media and in Search Engine Marketing in 2011. The study was conducted jointly by Goldstein Group Communications and Hearst Business Media. [Read more…]
ReSearch.ly Social Search Platform Launched
PeopleBrowsr, the Social Search engine and analytics company, has launched >ReSearch.ly, a product for online marketers, brand managers and social media experts to get real-time analytics and conversations from the social web. ReSearch.ly provides demographic data, sentiment analysis, real-time and historic mentions and viral analytics for any keyword. [Read more…]
How to Allow Search Engines to Index Your Facebook Profile
As you may be aware, Facebook has, very publicly, said that they do not want search engines like Google and Bing to index your Facebook profile. [Read more…]
How to Download Your Information from Facebook
Facebook has recently been under fire (a lot, I might add) for privacy issues and privacy concerns. I have even written about Facebook email privacy that has gone awry. [Read more…]
Facebook Chat Client – Chit Chat for Facebook
If you spend as long as I do passively connected to instant messenger networks, particularly Facebook chat, then you may be interested in hearing about a free Facebook chat client named Chit Chat for Facebook. [Read more…]
Top 3 Ways to Maximize Your Success with Social Media
The explosion of the internet and social media may be the fastest change in human history. No longer are individuals passively listening and viewing advertisements; now they’re “twittering” and posting their opinions on Facebook along with other social media sites. For little companies, social media’s ever-emerging presence is really a dramatic game-changer that can have a large impact on their bottom line. [Read more…]
Survey: Third of Companies Use Social Media to Promote Their Business
According to a brand new survey by >CareerBuilder, one-quarter of businesses leverage social media to recruit and research possible staff. Twenty-nine percent of companies with 500 or fewer employees are utilizing social networking in some way. And more than half of leisure and hospitality organizations use social networking to help promote their businesses. [Read more…]
Facebook Privacy Gone Awry: Search Engines Indexing Email Addresses from Facebook
Update May 2017: Facebook has removed this page from their website.
Private email addresses of individuals who have Facebook accounts are getting indexed by the search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft’s Bing.com. There are certain web pages on Facebook, mainly the Facebook Email Opt Out web page, that are getting indexed by the search engines. There is a problem because these web pages contain email addresses that can easily be harvested. [Read more…]
What Are the Best Social Media Monitoring Tools?
More and more businesses are getting into social media – an umbrella term that covers various activities that help bring about social interaction on the internet. Facebook and Twitter are some of the main outlets for social media, but there are numerous types of social media like blogs, wikis, forums, chat rooms, etc.. [Read more…]