Reddit’s Gift of the Day: Video Views to a Random Clarinet-Playing Child
Reddit has been known to do some pretty amazing things when it comes to helping people. The list of these is definitely something that needs to be researched to do it justice, but take our word for it – Reddit might troll with the best of them, but they also bring great kindness to the world as a community. Today’s variation truly struck me. It’s not that the cause was necessarily great, and that’s the point. Instead of helping someone find their stolen computer or sending 90th birthday wishes by the bushels, Reddit...
read moreFacebook Sales (Comic)
While it may be obvious to many how Facebook is making its money through advertising and social gaming, we still sometimes don’t realize it’s our data that they truly covet. Advertisers are wanting to hyper-target on the internet now and Facebook has the data to make it happen. If an advertiser wants to advertise to 25-35 year old males near Minneapolis who enjoy playing frisbee, Facebook knows better than any other company how to target them. Google is getting there. They have more data on everything other than personal...
read moreTwitter Fail: “Limitless” Marketing was Racist, Clueless
It’s a little ironic that a movie about a man who is able to use 100% of his brain is being marketed by people who are apparently using 0%. Such is the case for the movie “Limitless” which decided it was a good idea to use a popular yet racist Twitter hashtag in an attempt to be clever in their marketing. The results were not clever. Simply put, when using social media as a marketing tool, remember the Hipocratic Oath. The most oft-quoted portion of the oath is “primum non nocere”: First, do no harm. Whoever is...
read moreFacebook Marketing Myths
There are certainly things about Facebook that are not appealing to businesses. It can be time-consuming, may require money to make it work better, and doing it wrong can yield disastrous results. Those are the bad things. Some of the other things that businesses consider bad aren’t really that bad at all. In fact, there are clear examples where some of the Facebook marketing myths that pervade society are exactly opposite of the truth. This graphic by SmileSpread takes some of these assertions by the horns and proceeds to show examples...
read moreThe United States of Facebook
Two things are certain about Facebook and the United States. Both are big and getting bigger and both are considered the leaders in their own realms. The similarities are striking – size and leadership only scratch the surface. This graphic takes it a step further and looks at 7 other examples of the parallels between the two super-powers of different...
read moreHistory of Social Networking
Understanding the past can help us know what the future holds. In social media, this sort of knowledge is extremely important because it is in a constant state of change. What worked before doesn’t work now but may work again in the future. That’s the nature of social media. To truly look back, you have to look WAY back. Social media didn’t start with Facebook. It didn’t start with MySpace. The concept of social media has been with us for decades. The only different is that now we have the tools to make it more...
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