[Image from Engadget] Recently, Engadget took a look at 10 years of social media and broke the information down into a very interesting social media infographic. The crown currently belongs to Facebook, a company that’s made some big, big startup purchases on the way, although Twitter continues to pack (arguably) more influence. A whole lot […]
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The Benefits of Participating in Conversations on Twitter
Twitter is perhaps the most “open” of all social networks. Most people have their feeds open to the public and they don’t mind if you post several times a day. This is in comparison to say Facebook, where most people have strong privacy settings and they only post once or twice a day. A lot […]
Socl: Microsoft’s New Social Search Experiment
Microsoft quietly opened up “Socl” recently after a few months of beta testing at several US universities. But what is “Socl?” According to the official website, it is a way to “share your search and help others discover what they might be looking for.” It’s a slightly complicated concept, but it’s also one that could take […]
Bing Introduces Social Searching
Much like Google did a little while ago, Bing has now introduced social searching. What does that mean? Well, just like Google started incorporating Google+ content and shares into Google search results, Bing will also use information from social networks in its results. In fact, Bing is going several steps beyond what Google has done […]
Reaching Your Audience Through Social Media Marketing
The world of social media marketing can sometimes be a confusing and overwhelming one. There are millions of social media accounts out there so how will you get noticed? When you look and see that many accounts are “spam accounts” (ones that are only used to trick people into clicking certain links) it can seem […]