What you do in News Feed helps determine what you see in News Feed. You decide who you want to connect to, and what Pages and public figures you want to follow.
Starting today, there will be more ways for you to control and give feedback on your News Feed," wrote Facebook Product Manager Greg Marra.
Twitter's has just revamped its mobile application, which was officially launched on Tuesday. This new update now allows Twitter users to send photos to one another via direct message.
This new update now makes it much easier for Twitter users to send private messages that contain photos. That makes Twitter a much more fully featured private-messaging service.
This week we have seen Foursquare roll lout a completely new look and feel update for the iSO7, that optimises both push notifications and personal recommendations.
The new update allows Foursquare users to receive information and tips about what is going on in the area they have checked into. It also now asks the Foursquare user questions in the upper slide screen about the check in. All you need to do is tap the tab and then answer the question and chose one of the options available. Quick, simple which makes the users more inclined to engage and participate.
Instagram has just added a new feature to its services. You can now send photos and video directly to selected friends. Traditionally every post would be seen by people who followed you. With this new feature you can select up to 15 people that you want to receive the image or video and only they will be able to see it.
Now When you open your Instagram, you will now see a new icon (tray shape) in the top right corner of your home feed. Tap it to open your inbox where you’ll see photos and videos that people have sent to you.
Facebook announces a new feature called trending. This is similar to what you will find on Twitter, which shows uses of the social channel what are currently the most discussed topics on the site.
Facebook has rolled out this new feature to Australia, Britain, Canada and India with the US coming online over the next couple of weeks. Facebook has not advised when the other countries will be coming online with this new feature.
Paper, a standalone iOS news reader app it revealed today that delivers human and algorithm-curated full-screen articles and photos in categories you select like Tech, Travel, Sport. It is the first app out of Facebook Creative Labs, an initiative to let small teams within Facebook build standalone mobile experiences and fulfills Zuckerberg’s need for Facebook to become the future for news the modern age’s newspaper.
Today, LinkedIn announced the introduction of a new connection tool. Named “How You’re Connected” it aims to make the process of finding someone you are connected to, that is connected to a person you want to make contact with much easier.
Imagine how powerful this idea could be in the professional context of your own life, as goals become more attainable when you’re able to connect and collaborate with others who can help you achieve them.
Microsoft has invested $15 million in Foursquare. This strategic partnership will definitely assist Microsoft and Windows-powered phones with an enormous amount information about where to eat, what to see and do, where to stay for people on the move.
It is rumored that data drawn from Foursquare and its 30+ million users, (and their more than 3 billion check-ins to date on the app) will appear in a voice-activated assistant, to be released in the future which will go head-to-head with Apple's Siri technology.
This partnership will give Foursquare a new revenue stream and will provide it with additional expertise and possibly more features to its mobile phone app in the future.
Virgin Atlantic is currently trialing the use of Google glass or a Sony SmartWatch 2 with its business class passengers flying Virgin Atlantic from London Heathrow. Both devices operate via a purpose-built dispatch app built by the Virgin Atlantic passenger service system and SITA.
This app is designed to manage all the task allocations and concierge availability. As the business class passengers arrive at the upper wing class, the app will push individual passenger information directly to the assigned concierge via Google Glass or Sony Smart Watch.
In other developments, the company is also testing iBeacon technology at Heathrow Airport, allowing iOS users to receive flight updates and offers while at the airport.
The latest research from LinkedIn has found that the majority of SME businesses are moving into social media channels for growth opportunities.
According to a recent LinkedIn stud which surveyed 998 businesses, roughly 81% of SMBs are using social media, and of those using social media, 94% do so for marketing purposes.
Facebook announces a new page structure for Global Pages. It is claimed that the new structure will provide the best, localised experiences for a brand’s customers, and is available to all brands working with Facebook. Facebook users will now be directed to the best version of a companies Page based on the country the user is in. This will allow the Facebook user to see the brands localised content of features such as cover photos, profile photos, page apps, milestones, and news feed stories, etc. while still remaining part of the global brands community
Pinterest updated both its mobile and iPad apps recently, offering some of its most recent product updates to mobile users.
One of these new features was allowing its iOS and ANdroid apps with the ability to support GIFs. This will allow the millions of GIF to be accessable to mobile devises.
The company also recently unveiled Place Pins, or pins that allow images to contain geo-location information.
Pintrests idea was for people to utlize this feature for planning and showing trips and holiday photos. This is a similar feature that is available via Instagram.
Pinterest states that there are more than 200 million Place boards on the their platform, and that over 1.5 million new places are pinned each day. Pintrest claims that users have already pinned more than 750 million places since November.
With Place pins Pinterest could introduce a new revenu stream and use this like Foursquare giving people posing or checking in special offers from restaurants, retailers or companies nearby.
A secondary school teacher has been awarded $105,000 by District Court Judge Michael Elkiam. This Australian landmark case is the first time a social media Twitter defamation case has reached to trial in Australia.
Back in November 2012 a person posted a series of defamatory comments on Twitter and Facebookabout a High School Teacher who had replaced the Tweeters father in the role of High School Music teacher.
This decision is a reminder to brand owners, company owners as well as individuals that social media networks, whether large or small are publishing platforms in the eyes of the law and defamation on these channels can result in high penalties for people who are proven to have defamed.
This is a timely reminder to all Directors, Company Owners and Boards need to ensure that they have social media policies in place for their staff.
Pintrest recently announced that everyone can now create unlimited number of secret boards.
The beauty of secret boards, is that you can use them for birthday parties, holiday planning, keep track of gifts, wedding planning, birthdays, getting inspiration for a website or blog you are working on or a new business venture, as well as allowing you to work on a project that is not ready to share with the social world.
A secret board is what it states “secret”, one of the features is that you can invite friends to share these secret boards and share images and enjoy conversations.
Now that you have unlimited secret boards, there is no limit to what you can do on Pintrest.
What is LinkedIn?
LinkedIn is the world’s largest B2B social network site. Since it started in May 2003 as an online resume aggregator, it has grown to being one of the most actively used and updated social channels on the planet, supplying relevant business content to its users and allowing people to connect and build their business networks.
LinkedIn connects people to over 260 million affluent, ambitious and influential professionals. Built upon trusted connections and relationships, LinkedIn has established the world's largest and most powerful community of professionals, with members from over 200 countries and over 170 industries.
Facebook success story Instagram, announced recently in there blog that they now have passed the 200 million user mark, adding 50 million users in the last 6 months.
With no sign of slowing down anytime soon, Instagram has seen the sharing of 20 billion photos to date.
Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram 2 years ago and their recent acquisition of WhatsApp could see a revolutionary domination of the mobile and photo sharing space.
Something that Instagram has over other social players is the ability of its audience to engage with other Instagramer’s. I personally find this social channel as one of the most engaging social channels. Even with its size it’s still personable and engaging, something that the likes of the other social platforms lack.
If you open your email today you might find a series of emails from a range of social channels, email providers, and banks asking you to change your password.
Due to an encryption flaw, now named the “Heartbleed bug”, this bug has affected many popular websites and services right across the internet. Heartbleed has even affected the likes of Gmail and Facebook. This encryption flaw could have exposed your sensitive account information from passwords through to credit card numbers over the past two years.
What is Twitter?
Twitter the world’s largest Social networking and micro-blogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface. With over 500 million profiles and 288 million monthly active users, Twitter has cemented its position as the 5th largest social media network.
Facebook's is backed up its recent purchase of a messaging app with another acquisition having just paid 2 billion for Oculus VR, the maker of a virtual reality gaming headset called Oculus Rift. Oculus has sold 75,000 pre-orders for development kits, which cost $350, giving it approximately $26 million in income.
The deal which involves the payment of $400 million in cash, with 23.1 million shares of Facebook common stock valued at $1.6 billion. In addition, the deal includes a $300 million earn-out in cash and stock.
Nearby Friends as an optional feature being rolled out by Facebook (USA first) that tracks your location in real-time, allowing you to be notified when your Facebook friends are close by. Thereby allowing you both to make contact and catch up…say over a coffee at your local café that you have liked on Facebook that has also paid Facebook for the opportunity to be promoted to you.
When is it available?
Currently it is being rolled out across the USA, with other countries to follow.
For years, Instagram was one of those exceptions, remaining accessible well after Facebook, YouTube and Twitter were blocked. It went dark in late September, presumably because users were sharing photos of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
Using thought leadership to boost brand reach is now a priority for B2B brands, says research, and social media, often regarded as a B2C tool, is perfect for the job.
Fast forward 15 years things are so much more complex. With the combination of the internet, a mobile phone and social media, a complaint does not head to reception or the Hotels General Manager any more. It's broadcast via Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Instagram and the many other social media channels available today as the incidend that causes the complaint occurs.
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Facebook is trialling a "related videos" feature that works like Googles YouTube. What is being trialled is a way once you have finished watching a video in their mobile News Feed, Facebook recommends other similar, trending videos. At the moment the feature is only available to a select number of iOS and Android users.
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Instagram's Bolt is a messaging app that lets its users send photo and video messages, and easily delete them by tapping on their smartphone screen.
The app will be available on iOS and Android, and is currently only available in New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa. It will no doubt be rolled out across other markets in the future.
Instagram now has over 200 million monthly active users and it continues to grow and become on of the most engaging social media channels in the world.
Instagram users are also some of the most engaged users in the social universe, with over 70 per cent logging in at least once a day and 35% logging in more than once a day. I find myself logging onto this social channel about 3 to 4 times a day, it's so addictive.
Whilst social media provides many opportunities for businesses, some businesses are potentially unaware or seem to have forgotten the need to have a robust social media policy in place to assist employees and protect the company’s brand online.
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On Thursday Twitter updated its iPhone app with completely brand new redesigned on Twitter profiles. This update has made people and brand profiles more prominent. In addition to their own tweets, the new profiles emphasize users' bios, photos and favorite tweets.
Instagram continues to go from strength to strength and shows no signs of slowing down. Instagrams popularity is due to its ability to instantly share images and video content to your friends and followers. With over 200+million people using the app, its ease of use allows people to shot adjust and post within minutes.
Today SME's businesses can create Facebook strategies that grow their companies brand awareness. Facebook Fan pages are a great way to showcase your companies products or services.
You need to always be active and have a firm marketing plan in place. Here are 18 great ways that will help you grow your Facebook community.
Uber says it's testing a delivery service for drugstore products such as medicine and toiletries. Uber Corner Store, which is being piloted in the Washington, D.C., area, lets users call Uber drivers to request deliveries from a list of available items.
Globally, interest and participation in social media is growing at an ever-increasing rate as more and more people connect online via the various social media platforms. This interest also extends to organisations, which are recognising that social media offers new opportunities to engage with customers in conversations and brand awareness initiatives that help grow and develop their brands.
But as events highlighted recently in the media have shown, unguided or irresponsible social media usage can have vast ramifications for organisations that do not have effective policies in place.
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Social media has given every person a voice. For the first time ever the power is now rests in the hands of the individual. 2013 will see this power shift, continue to grow and influence every aspect of society.
The consumer now holds the power, they now decide which brands they want to interact with and receive information from.
This shift will continue to reverberate across society as brands, companies, associations, and governments come to terms with this shift in power.
At the Social Media Engagement Co. we offer a large range of social media training courses that are tailor made to the needs of all levels of social media expertise. We develop and carry out training using a mixture of presentations, videos, case studies, best practice examples, scenario-based elements and discussions. We believe training carried out in this way ensures key messages are understood and retained, and that the trainees are ready to incorporate elements of the training on a practical level into their everyday working environment.
Our highly practical and creative social media training sessions cover all aspects of social media marketing. Our training programs offer participants the opportunity to immerse themselves in social media and get answers to any questions they may have. What you get is training from people who have actively been involved in Social Media and have been involved in hands-on roles.
2013 will see companies beginning to realise that they are no longer servicing a local community, or geographic location. With the internet, mobile phones and social media, business is now truly global and can service anyone that they engage with via social media.
Smart Brands will begin to realise that they need to rethink their strategy, realign their marketing mix and product offerings to effectively compete in a global marketplace.
A lot of businesses have a presence on social media but very few have taken this opportunity seriously. There are even a greater number of businesses that still see Social Media as a fad, or are unable to grasp the opportunity due to either a lack of understanding or fear about someone posting a complaint on their social channel site.
LinkedIn has continued is push forward with some amazing facts and figures, It is truly the premier B2B Social Channel available today.
Here are some interesting facts and figures:
Recently LinkedIn has given thier groups a major overhall, the new look is aimed at keeping conversations between professionals going.
There are in excess of 2 million groups on LinkedIn and they are one of the most effective ways to connect to people and exchange ideas and knowledge.
"We’re happy to begin rolling out this new look to our English speaking members today...... LinkedIn Groups can continue to be a destination for professionals to gain important insights, ask questions, share ideas and engage with others every day," wrote LinkedIn's Product Manager Daria Axelrod Marmer.
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With over 500million users Twitter is face becoming the second biggest social media channel next to Facebook.
Twitter has just released an update which makes it so much easier to follow conversations and share content. This upate was announced on Twitters blog and applies to Twitter.com, its iOS and Android apps.
For more information head to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnRmayAuB4M
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Facebook have recently announced that it will now let multiple users upload images to the same photo album.
Now Facebook users can create and share a photo album with up to 50 contributors, who can each upload up to 200 photos on to the folder.
To keep the collaboration going, these contributors can in turn invite others to the album. Album creators still retain control over privacy settings and who has access to the images.
Its interesting to note that images and video are far more likely to be shared that simple text based images.
This feature will prove popular with users wanting to share snapshots from a speacial event such as a 21st or weddings and other events.
Facebook are obviously looking at taking some users away from Flikr.
In conjunction with Brand Protection Co, we are excited to announce a new service for our clients. We are now able to secure companies brands across over 500 social media channels.
With our new service, we register companies brand name, include their bio, contact details and image across a selection of social media channels.
Microsoft has invested $15 million in Foursquare. This strategic partnership will definitely assist Microsoft and Windows-powered phones with an enormous amount information about where to eat, what to see and do, where to stay for people on the move.
It is rumored that data drawn from Foursquare and its 30+ million users, (and their more than 3 billion check-ins to date on the app) will appear in a voice-activated assistant, to be released in the future which will go head-to-head with Apple’s Siri technology.
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Today, LinkedIn announced the introduction of a new connection tool. Named “How You’re Connected” it aims to make the process of finding someone you are connected to, that is connected to a person you want to make contact with much easier.
Imagine how powerful this idea could be in the professional context of your own life, as goals become more attainable when you’re able to connect and collaborate with others who can help you achieve them.
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At the end of the Super Bowl on Sunday, Esurance grabbed the first ad slot after the game and with its #EsuranceSave30 sweepstakes, had one amazing successful night, all thanks to Twitter.
As part of the #EsuranceSave30 sweepstakes promotion the Company, vowed to give away the difference in price – it went for $1.5million to one viewer who tweeted the hashtag within 36 hours after the ad aired.
Here are some of the amazing results:
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Virgin Atlantic is currently trialing the use of Google glass or a Sony SmartWatch 2 with its business class passengers flying Virgin Atlantic from London Heathrow. Both devices operate via a purpose-built dispatch app built by the Virgin Atlantic passenger service system and SITA.
This app is designed to manage all the task allocations and concierge availability. As the business class passengers arrive at the upper wing class.
More.....
The latest research from LinkedIn has found that the majority of SME businesses are moving into social media channels for growth opportunities.
According to a recent LinkedIn stud which surveyed 998 businesses, roughly 81% of SMBs are using social media, and of those using social media, 94% do so for marketing purposes.
More....
Pinterest updated both its mobile and iPad apps recently, offering some of its most recent product updates to mobile users.
One of these new features was allowing its iOS and ANdroid apps with the ability to support GIFs. This will allow the millions of GIF to be accessable to mobile devises.
More.....
A secondary school teacher has been awarded $105,000 by District Court Judge Michael Elkiam. This Australian landmark case is the first time a Twitter defamation case has reached to trial in Australia.
Back in November 2012 a person posted a series of defamatory comments on Twitter about a High School Teacher who had replaced the tweeters father in the role of High School Music teacher.
More.....
Pintrest recently announced that everyone can now create unlimited number of secret boards.
The beauty of secret boards, is that you can use them for birthday parties, holiday planning, keep track of gifts, wedding planning, birthdays, getting inspiration for a website or blog you are working on or a new business venture, as well as allowing you to work on a project that is not ready to share with the social world.
More....
What is LinkedIn?
LinkedIn is the world’s largest B2B social network site. Since it started in May 2003 as an online resume aggregator, it has grown to being one of the most actively used and updated social channels on the planet, supplying relevant business content to its users and allowing people to connect and build their business networks.
Facebook success story Instagram, announced recently in there blog that they now have passed the 200 million user mark, adding 50 million users in the last 6 months. With no sign of slowing down anytime soon, Instagram has seen the sharing of 20 billion photos to date.
If you open your email today you might find a series of emails from a range of social channels, email providers, and banks asking you to change your password. Due to an encryption flaw, now named the “Heartbleed bug”, this bug has affected many popular websites and services right across the internet. Heartbleed has even affected the likes of Gmail and Facebook. More....
What is Twitter?
Twitter the world’s largest Social networking and micro-blogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface. With over 500 million profiles and 288 million monthly active users, Twitter has cemented its position as the 5th largest social media network. More.....
Facebook's is backed up its recent purchase of a messaging app with another acquisition having just paid 2 billion for Oculus VR, the maker of a virtual reality gaming headset called Oculus Rift. Oculus has sold 75,000 pre-orders for development kits, which cost $350, giving it approximately $26 million in income. More....
Nearby Friends as an optional feature being rolled out by Facebook (USA first) that tracks your location in real time, allowing you to be notified when your Facebook friends are close by. Thereby allowing you both to make contact and catch up…say over a coffee at your local café that you have liked on Facebook that has also paid Facebook for the opportunity to be promoted to you. More....
It has been recently reported in the media that Twitter is on the verge of launching to its advertisers 15 new types of ad units. So it won’t be long before we see calls to action like “shop now” , “download now" in our Twitter streams.
Twitter is rolling out to its users the ability to mute posts from people they are following and are not really interested in hearing from them. More....
Facebook today updated its iOS app with two new features and a performance boost to the News Feed. One of the new features allows you to create posts offline so when you go online they can be sent automatically. You can download the new version now directly from Apple
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