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Category: Business

  • Gary Vaynerchuk at SXSW 2014

    Gary Vaynerchuk at SXSW 2014

    Enjoyable, thought provoking keynote from Gary Vaynerchuk. While it runs at over an hour most of it is Q & A with the audience. Worth watching:

  • Irish Social Media Awards 2014 Open Nominations

    Irish Social Media Awards 2014 Open Nominations

    The Irish Social Media Awards are being held in June in Dublin and nominations opened today. As with other years nominations are 100% free. This year’s categories are: Facebook categories: Facebook Page for a Business (Non Campaign) Facebook Page for a Non-Profit/Organisation Facebook Page for a Business (owner managed) Integrated Facebook Campaign: Page, App, Ads…

  • Attention Seekers On Twitter

    Attention Seekers On Twitter

    Gary Vaynerchuk posted this deck yesterday. It’s well worth reviewing and sharing, as it highlights one of the worst things that people and businesses do on Twitter: https://www.slideshare.net/vaynerchuk/being-human-ontwitterslidesharev3 I’ve seen a LOT of businesses abusing Twitter this way. Sure, if someone pays you or your business a compliment you might want to share it. But…

  • Social Network Wars Explained

    Social Network Wars Explained

    Social media networks want more users. Of course if you’re trying to grow your social network then it makes sense that you use your users’ existing connections .. So a lot of social networks tap into the data available via Twitter, Facebook and other services. Of course by doing this they can upset each other…

  • Pinterest Engagement Graphic

    Pinterest Engagement Graphic

    Pinterest has made changes to their systems in the last couple of months that make it easier for brands and businesses to use the social network. But what’s actually going on? This graphic from Curalate gives some interesting insights: Do you use Pinterest? Why? Do you like it? Hate it? Let us know in the…

  • Social Media Revealed

    Social Media Revealed

    A lot of the companies flogging social media services to businesses probably shouldn’t be in the business at all. A lot of the “advice” they’re giving companies is terrible and yet they charge their clients “top dollar” for it. (Not all of the companies operating in the space are “evil”, but a lot are) The…

  • CoTweet Standard Being Pulled

    CoTweet Standard, which is used by a lot of companies to manage Twitter for teams, is being withdrawn on February 15th From then on CoTweet will only be offered as a paid service under a new name “SocialEngage” There aren’t much details about SocialEngage on the CoTweet / Exact Target site unfortunately, nor is there…

  • Gowalla To Go The Way Of The Dodo

    Gowalla is to be shutdown. After being acquired by Facebook the “also ran” to FourSquare will be shutting down early in 2012, according to Techcrunch. So while Facebook may have acquired the skills and experience of the FourSquare team, they’re not taking over all the data. So will Facebook use some of the technology to…

  • Guinness Try To Force Age Restrictions On Twitter

    Guinness Ireland’s Twitter account is a bit odd. They want to restrict their followers to people over the age of 18! Of course I’m not “following” their account, but I can still see all their content! And here’s the screenshot to prove it: I think the word I’m looking for is “fail” They’ve posted a…

  • Angry Birds Gets Real

    Angry Birds is one of those games that is all too easy to dismiss, but it’s also incredibly easy to get addicted. Just ask anyone who made the mistake of installing it on their mobile device! But how would it play out if you brought it into the real world? German mobile company T-Mobile did…