We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – as far as advertising is concerned, 78 percent of people trust peer recommendations, with a mere 14 percent trusting traditional company ads. This is key to the social network’s marketing model and its respective success. Think about it – what is the number one way [...]
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Social Sharing: Mikey Likes It!
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011Tags: advertising, Blue interactive agency, facebook, Social Media, social media blog, social networks, social sharing, social sites, Twitter
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Tag You’re It! Facebook Photos Show Online Love to Brands
Friday, May 13th, 2011This week, Facebook announced yet another new feature, this time for photo tagging. The social networking site, which has grown from 66 million members to over 640 million in less than four years according to Business Week, now permits users to tag [...]
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Foursquare Taps a New Technology
Friday, May 13th, 2011Geolocation social media networks are becoming increasingly popular, with platforms like Foursquare reaching 7.5 million users this year. First debuted in 2009, Foursquare is a geographical location-based social media network that adds a gaming aspect to checking into locations with a points and badge system. The new version of Foursquare includes an “Explore” feature customized [...]
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Facebook Rolls Out the Send Button
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011Users have been hitting the Like button for interesting updates on Facebook, and now they have the option to share those updates with individuals privately, with the social media platform’s new Send feature. Facebook rolled out the Send button a few weeks ago to replace the old “Email to a Friend” feature. By clicking on [...]
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What is the Google Panda Update?
Monday, April 18th, 2011In late February 2011 Google announced a major update of its search engine ranking algorithm that would affect 12% of its search results and decrease some website visits by 50%. As of Monday, April 11, Google rolled out the update globally to all English-language users. Called the Panda or the Farmer Update, the latest announcement [...]
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How Much Do You Know About Facebook Photo Sharing?
Friday, February 18th, 2011There are over 500 million active Facebook users, 50 percent of whom log on in any given day, spending over 700 billion minutes per month on the social networking site. With these kinds of statistics, it’s no wonder social photo discovery engine Pixable and Harvard Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski teamed up to study user behavior [...]
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2011 Social Media Week Celebrates Fourth Year
Friday, February 4th, 2011Sponsored by Nokia, Social Media Week 2011 begins next Monday, February 7th through the 11th. The event is being hosted in New York, San Francisco, Rome, Paris, Toronto, São Paulo, London, Hong Kong and Istanbul. Social Media Week (SMW) is described on their website as, “a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around [...]
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