Posts under the ‘Social Media’ Category
Twitter is Receiving 300,000 New Users Per Day
By @AndrewHazen
The Twitter bandwagon continues adding 300,000 new users per day, making the trendy microblogging service a hot commodity in the web world. CEO Ev Williams revealed that the company now boasts an impressive 145 million registered users, up from 105 million just four months ago.
Williams also revealed another interesting numbers tidbit in that sixteen percent of new users join the site via a mob...
Posted on September 3rd in Internet Marketing, Prime Visibility, Social Media | No Comments »
New Digg Live!
By David Neuman
In case you haven't seen it yet, Digg 4.0 is now live. It's a LOT different than the original layout and takes some getting used to. Unlike the original layout, the homepage defaults to stories submitted / Dugg by users you are following, not the top Digg articles. I am curious to see how this has an overall effect on user submissions. We'll be testing and reporting our findings....
Posted on August 26th in Social Media | No Comments »
Facebook Places – New Feature of Facebook Launched
By David Neuman
In an attempt to rival the rapidly growing FourSquare, Facebook has launched a new feature called "places" that allows you to check in via your Facebook iphone app or through touch.facebook.com on your browser and share where you are with your Facebook friends. As of now, there are too many limitations for it to rival FourSquare, but Facebook will undoubtedly continue to update Places making it li...
Posted on August 19th in Social Media | No Comments »
Social Bookmarking – An Often Overlooked Strategy
By David Neuman
Every conference I've attended over the past year related to Social Media discusses either Twitter, Facebook, blogging, YouTube, FourSquare, mobile, LinkedIn, or a combination of some. There's no arguing that these all play an integral role in any Social Media campaign. However, I am surprised by how often Social Bookmarking never makes it's way into a discussion. Sites like Digg, Reddit, and ...
Posted on August 3rd in Social Media | No Comments »
Social Media and ROI
By David Neuman
I attended a great conference yesterday hosted by BDI that featured case studies from various businesses using Social Media. This was my fourth BDI conference, and recommend that anyone who has an interest in Social Media attend future ones. My only issue with the conference was the overkill of "Social Media and ROI". A typical conversation between two people pertaining to this went somethin...
Posted on July 22nd in Social Media | No Comments »
To Follow or Not To Follow
By David Neuman
Many "Twitter Experts" have different theories when it comes to following people on Twitter. You have users like Guy Kawasaki who go by the "let's follow everyone who follows me" rule and then you have other users like Conan O'Brien who followed nobody until he started following a random person (and subsequently changed her life). There is no arguing that both of these individuals have seen grea...
Posted on July 7th in Social Media | No Comments »
