Facebook users can generally be divided into two types – narcissists and voyeurists!
Read Chris Tomlinson’s latest musing on the subject in Thursday’s Birmingham Post
UK Election 2010 – Social media success is about substance, not style
March 4th, 2010Category: Home, Online PR, Online content, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategy
This week saw the launch of a number of social media initiatives by the two main parties.
But, like a lot of UK politics, is it just style over substance?
In the run up to the general election, are the political parties creating true social media engagement with online citizens to achieve real social media success?
Today Google kindly asked me if I’d like to try Google Buzz, the new social networking feature it has bolted onto Gmail, its popular free email service.
The last thing I’m inclined to do right now is join another time consuming social network!
Google is always fiddling, or ‘refining’ as it calls it, with its algorithm, the one that determined which sites we see at the top of our search results pages.
Usually you need to be a search engine optimisation (SEO) expert or a real geek to spot the changes, or follow Google’s official blog.
With over 280,000 members, “Earthquake Haiti” is now the largest group on Facebook. Let the sceptics of social networking take note: not only are people using social media to find missing loved ones, but using it as a source of on-the-ground information.
According to web monitoring company, Compete, traffic to the micro-blogging website Twitter has flat-lined, suggesting its world dominance may not be so assured.
Today, many are blaming the lack of salt grit for bringing the economy to a standstill, leaving many workers snowed in and unable to work.
But is it really the lack of salt grit that’s to blame?
Social media predictions for 2010 are popping up every couple of seconds at the moment.
We’ve carried out a comprehensive review and have identified six of the most likely predictions, and outline how you can stay ahead in social media in the coming year.
It’s easy to see how search engine optimisation (SEO) could affect the ancient art of grabbing readers attention, but will it really lead to the death of the creative headline?
I was doing my usual catch up on blogs over the weekend and I was amazed at how many social media commentators rarely mentioned any other marketing channel.
We’ve got a good few years of working in social media under our belts – do we still think social media is the be-all and end-all?
