Category: SocialMedia
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Make Twitter Great Again With This Donald Trump Chrome Plugin
The US President Donald Trump has a tendency to issue quite contentious statements via Twitter. Some of those statements might appear to be a little lacking in gravitas. This plugin for Chrome will give them the gravitas they deserve by converting them all to Comic Sans. You can see it “in action” on one of…
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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:
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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…
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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…
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Don’t Overemphasise Social Media
Social media may be powerful, it may be useful and it might be the right tool for a lot of businesses, but it isn’t the solution to everything nor has it had impact on every single part of human activity. Via
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Twitter To Target Users Based On Browsing Activity
Twitter is experimenting with new advertising techniques and formats. In a recent announcement the company announced their plans to start targetting their US users based on their web browsing activity. The new “service” is aimed at US based Twitter users so Europeans should not be impacted: So if you’re a European Twitter user you shouldn’t…
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If Toddlers Used Facebook
George Takei “gets” social media and his Facebook page is probably one of the more amusing ones on Facebook. From earlier today:
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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…
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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…