Mercury News: Facebook’s ecosystem was at first dominated by social gaming companies, particularly newly public Zynga in San Francisco. But that is changing as fast-growing startups built specifically around Facebook create new ways to find a job, buy and sell merchandise, plan a trip or find new customers — all inside the world’s largest social […]
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Mashable: “Don’t fall into the trap of something I call a ‘courtesy’ follow — that is, following someone that has followed you out of a desire to appear grateful,†advises Sheena Medina, community manager at Fast Company. On the other hand, some say that businesses should follow back, so that their followers may DM them
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Here is what some entrepreneurs told the Washington Post about hiring someone to handle social media. Paul Gollash, founder and CEO of New York-based Voxy: “We originally tried to manage our social media presence part-time, but we learned quickly that in order to go from just having a presence to actually building and maintain high-value
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The Telegraph: The Bureau is asking companies to build software that can effectively scan social media online for significant words, phrases and behavior so that agents can respond. A paper posted on the FBI website asks for companies to build programs that will map sentiment and wrongdoing. Although the software would only be able to
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Google has announced that it will begin supporting nicknames and pseudonyms for user accounts on its Google+ social network. This has been a sticky subject since the network launched seven months ago with a strict real name policy that saw violating accounts flagged and deleted. The revised Google+ name policy will begin rolling out this
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B&T: Three out of four Australian business women use Facebook as a marketing tool and 60% have a business Twitter account, an online survey has found. The survey, conducted by social media businesses Brand Meets Blog and Mum PR, found that of the 708 respondents 43% spend between five and 30 minutes per-day updating their
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Fast Company reports on a new company called uFlavor, that promises to bring custom sodas to the masses — both in the mail and via internet connected vending machines. Picture this: You are sitting in, say, a Bermuda hotel on vacation. Suddenly you are struck by a crazy idea for a new soft drink taste.
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Amit Gupta is an entrepreneur in San Francisco. He has successfully launched photojojo, but now he faces another dilemma. He has acute leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. Fellow entrepreneurs heard of his dilemma, and the word has spread like wildfire thanks to social media. Gupta’s journey to find a donor hasn’t happened alone.
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What was once said about television has made its way into social media: too much of it makes us lazy. At least, that is the theory Edward De Bono has, according to News.com.au. “There’s a danger in the internet and social media,†says Mr De Bono. “The notion that information is enough, that more-and-more information
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Social media has given companies the opportunity to reach out to potential customers. However, it has also given angry employees a place to vent their work-related frustrations. Workers – on and off the clock – are taking to their Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts to complain about everything from jerky bosses to rude customers to
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