Facebook Apps That Help
Here are some ideas to help build your facebook page for your business or organization. 1) Configure your Page’s “Settings” to allow more participation. The ability to build community is essential in order to have a return on your investment (ROI) when using social networking sites, and you can’t build community on Facebook if you don’t allow your Likers to participate on your Page. This will mean that you are going to have check your Page more regularly for rogue comments, but that is a small price to...
Read MoreThe Enterprise Value of Social Software
by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown Social software is a key enabler of the move from push to pull If executives are wary of cloud computing, they are flat-out skeptical of social software. When most non-IT executives hear “social software,” they stop listening at “social” and imagine internet-aided water cooler chatter. They fear the loss of worker productivity — digital technology provides a seemingly endless array of distractions in the workplace. Executives cannot help but lose sleep over the potential loss of confidentiality and expanded opportunity for...
Read More10 social media tools for smart phones
Here is a quick list of social media tools for smart phones to stay in touch while you’re on the road: 1. Twitter Twitter has a mobile website (m.twitter.com) and its own official Twitter App for iPhone, iPhone Touch and iPad. Twitter Apps for Android and Blackberry are also available. 2. Facebook Facebook has a mobile site (m.facebook.com), a touch site (touch.facebook.com), and Apps for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm, Sidekick and many more. 3. Foursquare Foursquare is essential for nonprofits and businesses that are location-based. Beyond adding your nonprofit on the desktop...
Read MoreFacebook Creator Tells the Truth
by Jose Antonio Vargas – The New Yorker Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room six years ago. Five hundred million people have joined since, and eight hundred and seventy-nine of them are his friends. The site is a directory of the world’s people, and a place for private citizens to create public identities. You sign up and start posting information about yourself: photographs, employment history, why you are peeved right now with the gummy-bear selection at Rite Aid or bullish about prospects for peace in the Middle East. Some of the information can be seen only...
Read MoreHow to Use Social Media to Build Your Brand
Be proactive on customer service and use social media to sharpen up how you want to treat your customers. Instead of waiting for problems to happen, then trying to resolve them, use social media as a search for customer feedback and integrate it to support strategy. Lot’s of people use the idea of building feeds based on tweets to keep up on topic trends, the same thing can be used for reviews, support, and social media strategy. This could also be implemented towards search optimization, proactive searching of keywords based on tweets to decide on volume. Read more here: Open...
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