Why Facebook Questions is Good for Brands and Businesses; Mashable
The feature, which Facebook rolled out to all users March 24, functions as a “recommendation engine.” It also presents a major opportunity for businesses to conduct market research and crowdsource in a far more elegant way than was previously possible.
The Takeaway: While the importance of Facebook questions for advertisers is obvious, there are some cons to the process. For example, the questions (and their answers) are not catalogued by search engines at this time. Public Q&A sites like Yahoo Answers and Quora will still remain important for public-facing customer support and inquiries. Continue reading
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Digital Week in Review: Twitter to Launch Promoted Accounts
Twitter to Launch Promoted Accounts; Mashable
Twitter announced that it plans to monetize on the desire to collect more followers with the announcement of its “Promoted Accounts” product.
The Takeaway: With the ability to attain new followers and additional visibility so easily, Twitter is becoming more like Facebook with its similar revenue strategies. Continue reading
How a New York City Wine Networking Group Grew Utilizing Social Media
A Wine Networking Group Goes Social
Path TV Episode 6
Guest Bryan R Adams, founding member of Supernodes discusses how this niche networking group went from emailing some contacts to spreading the word by creating a presence on Myspace, facebook, linkedin, twitter, facebook, and Ning to name a few. Continue reading
Another LinkedIn Success Story
Another success story using LinkedIn a prior post, Kate Edwards met with a business that was searching on LinkedIn for a restaurant consultant. How about another industry? Enter Colin Wheeler… Continue reading
A LinkedIn Success Story
Recently, one of our LinkedIn attendees sent us an email via LinkedIn. Kate Edwards attended a “I have a profile now what?” session, and followed it up with a beginners session to LinkedIn. Continue reading
Linkedin Reaches 50 Million Users
Linkedin still experiencing robust growth
Last week, LinkedIn reached another milestone, by reaching 50 million users worldwide. Half of those users are in the United States. Trailing behind the U.S. is Europe with approximately 11 million users. How quickly is Linkedin growing? To put it in perspective, it took the social network nearly 3 years to reach its first 5 million users, while the last million has taken a little over two weeks. Continue reading
