The new ‘Face’ of Facebook
Last night, I embarked on the new look of Facebook, and I have to say I am fairly impressed.
First of all, I have to give Mark, and the whole Facebook team props, because of the new cosmetic change that they have developed, and how they have handled it. I remember back in college when I [...]
Social Networking By The Numbers
Facebook, Filkr, Fllxter, Friendster and that’s just the F’s. Have you ever tried to figure out which of the growing number of social networks deserve your time or which services attract the exact demographic you’re looking for? Consultancy Rapleaf has some answers.
In a follow up to a study of social network users vs. age, Rapleaf [...]
Social Media Network Study
For Marketing Pilgrim readers who love data - here is a follow-up to Rapleaf’s social media study. The link has a spreadsheet that you can apply formulas to. The study looked at 49.3 million people on social networks and breaks them down by age and gender. This is good to study to look at if [...]
Succeeding At Social Media
You can’t escape social networks or social channels even if you tried to. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk, FriendFeed, Orkut, Bebo, LinkedIn - give access channels for strangers to meet and attempt to become your friends.
As a marketer, social networks or web 2.0 networks and services give you an opportunity to reach out to potential customers [...]
Fake Social Media Profiles
Somewhere in the middle of all the drama last week was a discussion on fake social media profiles, and as usual the white hat zealots were ready to crucify anyone associated with them, claiming they were yet another tool disparaging the SEO and internet marketing industry. Well it’s my profession responsibility to provide some examples [...]
The Future of Social Media Predictions
All we do here at Ignite Social Media is social media marketing. So we watch it carefully, looking for trends, what’s coming next, what’s likely to bubble up. And it’s got me thinking. I believe that social media is in its infancy. Not everybody does.
But I’m quite sure we don’t have [...]
Facebook’s Redesign
Sign in on the subdomain www.new.facebook.com and you’re greeted “Welcome to the new Facebook.” And indeed it is. Facebook is unveiling a new redesign, and the long-tested tabbed profile pages aren’t the only changes.
Facebook Versus Twitter
I was working on writing a comment for the latest blog post by AJ Vaynerchuk at ShoeMoney.com but it turned out that the comment morphed into something more, so I thought bringing some attention to the post as well as my thoughts on it might be a good thing.
AJ selected the names of fifty prominent [...]
Facebook’s Turn-Around On Social Ads
Facebook once again made a step in the right direction with consumer privacy. I’ll admit I’m not exactly sure how it happened, and based on conversations I’ve had with others in the social media space, it seemed to happen pretty quietly. Yet the whole brouhaha over Facebook’s social ad policy that really irked me at [...]