LinkedIn had a bit of a slow start when compared to other social media networks. You certainly couldn’t call its rise meteoric. Like the tortoise in his race against the speedy hare, it has kept plodding along and is now starting to catch up to the big boys. Its unique selling point has always been [...]
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LinkedIn Tweaks its Services to Become More User-Friendly
Posted 9 April 2013 by SandyTagged As: linkedin, linkedin jobs, linkedin search | Categories: SEO, Social Media | Leave a Comment
Pinterest – A power hungry social monster
Posted 4 December 2012 by AynsleyTagged As: facebook marketing, google plus, linkedin, pinterest, social media, social media followers, Twitter | Categories: Digital Marketing, Social Media | Leave a Comment
Pinterest has quickly become a powerful brand, one of the fastest growing networks of all time and a powerful business referral tool. The accomplishments are impressive and the social giant itself is strangely addictive. But how much do we really know about this power hungry monster? Did you know that Pinterest … Was started in [...]
Tuesday Morning Roundup: Latest Social Headlines (Nov 13 2012)
Posted 13 November 2012 by AynsleyTagged As: Facebook, facebook marketing, linkedin, social media, social media followers, social media marketing, Twitter, twitter marketing | Categories: Social Media, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies participate far less in social media networks than the rest of us. There have been interesting surveys conducted, and the findings are shocking! Having CEOs that actively interact and make themselves available on social platforms leads to greater faith in a company. In fact, 93% of those surveyed believe that [...]
Tuesday Morning Roundup: Latest Social Headlines (Nov 06 2012)
Posted 6 November 2012 by AynsleyTagged As: blogging, Facebook, facebook marketing, linkedin, social media marketing, Twitter, twitter marketing | Categories: Social Media, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
In this week’s social headlines it seems we are in for a Face-list, as Facebook has been quietly trying out a new tool for advertising, using the recycled name, “Marketplace”. This could give Craigslist a real run for its money. Apparently, users will be able to create short personal ads. These will show up in [...]
Tuesday Morning Roundup: Latest Social Headlines (Oct 30 2012)
Posted 30 October 2012 by AynsleyTagged As: Facebook, facebook marketing, linkedin, social media marketing, Twitter, twitter marketing | Categories: Social Media, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I’m sure we have all seen and, in some cases, fallen for the sneaky, pointless viral links circulating Facebook more and more often these days. They go like this: “1. Click on Photo, 2. Comment Jump 3. See what happens.” What happens? Nothing! This is a sneaky tactic to make cyber scammers rich. These pages [...]
Tuesday Morning Roundup: Latest Social Headlines (Oct 16 2012)
Posted 16 October 2012 by AynsleyTagged As: blogging, brands, Facebook, guest posts, linkedin, online brand, seo companies, social media, twitter marketing | Categories: News, Social Media | Leave a Comment
Top news in the world of social media seems to be pointing to an on-going scandal where social media consulting firms are buying “fake followers” to increase the visibility of their own profiles. This leads one to ask, “What is the deal with the numbers?” One would think the word social is an obvious clue. [...]
Tuesday Morning Roundup: Latest Social Headlines (Oct 9 2012)
Posted 9 October 2012 by AynsleyTagged As: Facebook, facebook search engine, linkedin, social media, social search engine, Twitter | Categories: Digital Marketing, Social Media | Leave a Comment
The world of social media is extending beyond simple social interaction. It seems that over the eight years of Facebook’s existence it has been collecting data from its now one billion users (as if we ever doubted that) and there is talk that this information will be used to fuel some sort of social search [...]
LinkedIn follows in Facebook’s footsteps
Posted 10 October 2011 by SandyTagged As: Facebook, linkedin, linkedin status updates | Categories: Social Media | Leave a Comment
LinkedIn is the professional social network. At least that’s how it styles itself and how it is generally perceived. It’s not for inane status updates about what you had for breakfast, links to cracked.com or photos of your latest debauched night out. It’s for establishing business contacts, networking with like-minded business professionals and improving business [...]
It’s LinkedIn vs. Facebook when it comes to business networking
Posted 16 August 2011 by SandyTagged As: Facebook, linkedin | Categories: Social Media | Leave a Comment
LinkedIn is the professional social network of choice. Or is it? A couple of recent surveys have provided conflicting results. According to Lab42 survey, cited by MarketingProfs, LinkedIn is the most used site for professional networking. The potential problem with survey, however, is that respondents were already registered LinkedIn users. It didn’t consider the broader [...]
Daily checklist to maintaining your personal brand
Posted 17 May 2011 by SandyTagged As: Digg, Facebook, linkedin, online brand, personal brand, social media, social media followers, StumbleUpon, Twitter | Categories: Social Media | Leave a Comment
Setting up Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and StumbleUpon accounts is all good and well for establishing an online presence, but maintaining it is another matter altogether. If you want to maintain your personal brand you need to work at it daily. And you need to make sure that you’re maintaining it with quality content, not just [...]