Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Teenagers and tech: look at the trends, not the tools? Paid Members Public
Mathew Ingram responds to Farhad Manjoo on how telling teenagers’ use of tech is [http://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/why-the-youth-market-matters-for-snapchat-and-facebook-despite-what-the-wsj-thinks/] : > […] teens and twenty-somethings are good predictors of technology’s future, even if the services or apps or hardware they prefer at a specific point in time don’t
Twitter welcomes careful curators Paid Members Public
Twitter launches custom timelines [https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-custom-timelines]: > Custom timelines are an entirely new type of timeline — one that you create. You name it, and choose the Tweets you want to add to it, either by hand or programmatically using the API (more on that below). This
Event organisers hijack attendees Twitter accounts Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/10/10258650884_5753ba04ec_z.jpg] Mashable reports on a complete abuse of New York Comic Con attendees’ Twitter accounts [http://mashable.com/2013/10/11/new-york-comic-con-promotional-tweets/] : > Fans, celebrities and press attending New York Comic Con on Thursday sent out
Finally: (public) Facebook posts can be embedded Paid Members Public
Interesting thing that happened while I was away: Facebook posts became embeddable by all [https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2013/08/21/embedded-posts-now-available-to-everyone/] . For example: [Post](https://www.facebook.com/adamtinworth/posts/10153129669970456) by [Adam Tinworth](https://www.facebook.com/adamtinworth).That’s one heck of a potential resource
Quote of the Day: Professionalism Paid Members Public
Euan Semple [http://euansemple.com/theobvious/2013/9/2/linkedin-professionalism-or-keeping-up-appearances] : > The full impact of the social web will only be apparent when being “professional” – in the sense of restrained, impersonal, guarded and “businesslike” as distinct from being bloody good at your job – is finally seen as unproductive, dysfunctional, often
The short-lived triumph of social media noise Paid Members Public
Stephanie Booth [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2013/08/12/refaire-sa-job-description/]: > I recently realised that I need to distance myself a little from this social media pigeonhole I’m in — not that I’m going to stop doing what I’ve done until now, not at all, but I find
Facebook Likes - the newest target of the fake internet Paid Members Public
Channel 4 news ran a big investigation into Facebook Likes [http://www.channel4.com/news/facebook-likes-hacking-fan-data-internet-how] last week: > As Facebook has grown to 1.15 billion users, gaining “likes” or fans, the social network has become a valuable marketing opportunity for companies. One social intelligence company put the value
The solution to Twitter bullying? Paid Members Public
Euan Semple on the recent Twitter abuse issues [http://euansemple.com/theobvious/2013/7/31/a-volume-control-on-mob-rule]: > Bullies gain strength from that audience. The audience is to blame for not saying anything. Sure their hardcore mates would have egged them on but there must have been some at the periphery
