Social Networks Eclipse E-Mail
By TEDDY WAYNE Published: May 17, 2009 Alongside the explosive growth of online video over the last six years, time spent on social networks surpassed that for e-mail for the first time in February, signaling a paradigm shift in consumer engagement with the Internet. According to a report released in April by Nielsen, Internet use for “short-tail” [...]
HOW TO: Use Twitter for Customer Service
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Customer service can evoke some serious misgivings or negative emotions. Although customer support is designed to help the consumer, the pain of waiting for a phone representative and the impersonal emails can cause more damage than good for a brand. People are turned off by the term and companies have begun to use different terminology to describe their efforts.
Nine Twitter tips for business
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Twitter is so red-hot right now that it’s united Shaq and Oprah. It’s also so good at attracting buzzwords that I can’t decide whether to call it a microblogging service or a social-networking Web site. But it doesn’t really matter what you call it, or whether you prefer to follow Ashton Kutcher or Britney Spears. What matters is that users are taking to Twitter in massive numbers. And your business should be there, too.
WARNING: Facebook Scam On the Loose, Steals Passwords
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Facebook is falling prey to a widespread phishing attack today that tries to steal your login and spam your friends. I’ve got a number of messages in my Facebook inbox with links to “FBAction.net”, a site that displays a fake Facebook login. Enter your details there, and it will spam all your friends with the same [...]
Xobni Going Live With Full Facebook Stream Tonight
Monday, April 27, 2009
April 27th, 2009 | by Ben Parr It hasn’t even been a day since Facebook opened up its developer API stream, but companies and applications have already jumped on the opportunity by expanding the functionality of their products. Just today, we’ve already highlighted the upcoming Facebook updates by Seesmic Desktop that will utilize the new Open [...]
How Twitter Works And How It Can Help Your Business
Friday, April 17, 2009
By Mariela Perez-Simons If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you are trying to understand what the big deal is about Twitter. And you’re probably wondering, “Can Twitter really help my business?” The answer is, “very much so!” But, what is Twitter again? Twitter, like Facebook, began life as a tool for college students. Allowing only 140 [...]
Don’t Blame Twitter, Myspace or Facebook; Blame Yourself
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The Blame Game Over the years, there has been many articles written about how certain Social Networks were causes for certain events. Below are a few examples: Mashable writes about how Facebook Can Get You Fired, Dumped, And Yes, Evicted Gawker explains how a bank intern gets fired because of Facebook. Another story of getting fired from Facebook is from Switched, a [...]
How to Promote an Event With Inbound Marketing – A Step-By-Step Guide
Friday, April 3, 2009
Now that we’ve convinced you that event marketing does not conflict with inbound marketing and even talked a bit about adding online scale to your offline events, we thought it was time to provide a step-by-step guide to promoting your event with inbound marketing. 1. Set up your event website. Your website will be key in building [...]
iPhone can finally send MMS
Fri, Sep 25, 2009
It’s official: The iPhone can (finally, it’s about flippin’ time) perform a task that many other phones have been able to do since 2002. It can now send and receive multi-media messages. Here’s a quick look at how it works. The carrier profile data update that iPhones need in order to send and receive MMS messages [...]
Netvibes Feature Enhancement: Create a New Page
Wed, May 27, 2009
esides fighting a raging headache this morning, I began the day trying to get my Netvibes page to load in Firefox. (Double headache!!) Netvibes is my defacto solution for gathering all the pertinent information that I need to run my day. I have multiple "tabs" on my Netvibes page ranging from Local News, Internet Security News, etc. I can accomplish everything from updating my Twitter feed, checking Gmail as well as gather all the daily news in real time.
Microsoft Office editing NOW AVAILABLE for the iPhone
Mon, May 4, 2009
UPDATE: Quickoffice is now available!!! Visit Quickoffice.com for more details. Quickoffice® is the first integrated office suite to allow ACCESS, VIEW, EDIT, SHARE of native Microsoft® Word and Excel files on the iPhone. Quickoffice now brings even more office functionality and connectivity to iPhone users, enabling a true, next generation mobile office experience. Visit Quickoffice.com for more [...]
Send Evernote Memos from Twitter
Tue, Apr 14, 2009
If you’ve already admitted defeat in the war on Twitter dependency, feel better. You can now send notes to universal memory service Evernote from Twitter. Follow myEN from your account, and you’ll get a message back with a link-up URL. From there, you can direct message myEN for a private, 140-character remembrance, or add @myEN [...]
Skype iPhone App Downloaded One Million Times In First Two Days
Thu, Apr 2, 2009
We knew it’d be a hit, but not that much of a hit. The official Skype iPhone application, announced earlier this week, hit the iTunes Store last Tuesday and since then it’s seen an astonishing one million downloads to the popular Apple devices, which is nothing short of amazing. That translates to approximately 6 downloads [...]
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