Social Media
Social Media Tools: Trunk.ly Archives and Indexes Your Shared Links
UPDATE: Since this post was written, Trunk.ly was acquired by AVOS, the new owners of Delicious, and the Trunk.ly service was discontinued. It’s happened to …
Facebook Introduces the Send Button
Today Facebook significantly upped the ante in its bid to dominate the way people share content on the Internet. The Facebook Like button (as an ...
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Facebook iPhone App Update: Check-in to Events, Unfriend on the Go, But Still No Share Button
Yesterday Facebook announced an update to their popular iPhone app. The principle new goodies in this update are: Check-in to events using Facebook Places. See checked-in ...
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How to Get a Google +1 Button for Your Web Site
Yesterday Google announced the experimental rollout of its +1 search social recommendation feature. (See Google +1 Is Google’s Like Button for details.) For the present, ...
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Google +1 Is Google’s Like Button: Social Sharing of Search Results
Google’s +1 button allows Google search users to “like” both individual search results and AdWords ads in the search results. +1 shows up as an ...
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How NOT to Respond to Criticism or Bad Publicity in Social Media
The comment thread of this otherwise humdrum book review has gone viral in just a few days. Scroll down to the comments, where the author ...
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Compare Social Media Competition with Wildfire
Wildfire makes available a free tool that lets you compare the performance trends of up to three brands on Facebook and Twitter. Start by entering ...
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Social Mention: Real Time Social Media Brand Tracking for Free
Social Mention (www.socialmention.com) appears to be a viable tool for those who need to track a brand or topic across the wide variety of social ...
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How to Track Facebook Shares from Your Web Site
If you administer a Facebook Page, Facebook Insights provides an abundance of useful metrics. There is one crucial metric that is not visible in the basic ...
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The Very Best Email Alerts for Comments and Posts on Facebook Pages
HyperAlerts bills itself as “The Feature Facebook Forgot,” and in this case, that’s no hype. If you manage a Facebook Page, one of the more ...
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Does Your Facebook Profile Link to Your Actual Business or Employer?
SEO consultant Mark Aaron Murnahan (Facebook | Twitter) has uncovered an important quirk about the new Facebook profile employer information. Facebook has been rolling out a ...
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FourSquare Adds Pages and Badges for Brands
FourSquare, the popular social check-in service has been a boon for many local businesses for some time. Local, brick-and-mortar establishments can post coupons and deals ...
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HARO Connects Your Expertise with Hungry Reporters
HARO (Help A Reporter Out http://www.helpareporter.com) has already proven itself to be a great outlet for free publicity for your business or personal reputation. HARO ...
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Are You Ready for Google Me?
A little bit of information began to leak this week about the long-rumored “Google Me” social network. Here’s what Chris Crum at webpronews.com had to ...
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