I work as a social media and community manager for a small app development company and one of the first problems I found when starting this position was the lack of ability to control all of their twitter accounts at once. It was extremely tedious and annoying to have to log-in over and over again [...]
How do I Control my Facebook Places Privacy Settings?
Last week Facebook made their official leap into the “geolocation” space by introducing a new service called Facebook Places. Their headfirst geo-dive will initially be launched in the United States and rolled out worldwide in the very near future. The service exists as an iphone application, and is also available at touch.facebook.com. The most interesting [...]
Facebook shrinks Page Tabs (760px -> 520px)! Why?
As you would have read in the title, Facebook has recently shot out a warning to all developers and page owners that their page tabs will be automatically resized August 23rd 2010. At first glance I was “meh” but quickly realized what this meant. This essentially BREAKS every custom tab I have on Facebook as it [...]
How to Choose the Right Type of Promotional Contest/Sweepstakes
Contests and sweepstakes run through social media were all the rage in 2009. While this was great for large and small brands running fan drives, the entire concept has turned into a sort of online popularity contest (effectively turning people off because of the unoriginality that now pervades these kinds of campaigns). That’s not to [...]
10 Steps for a Not-For-Profit Before Starting a Social Media Campaign
It is a big step for any organization to make that first dive into social media, but your friends are doing it (and even more so, your competitors are doing it), so how do you begin? We have compiled a 10 step guide specifically geared towards not-for-profits, but a lot of these could be applied [...]
iPhone/iPod/iPad E-mail Push Notifications for Hotmail etc: How-To Guide
Ever since switching from Blackberry my greatest regret was losing my e-mail push notifications. In my business, replies need to be instant and professional. My issue was that I was never the type to want to check my e-mails and the Blackberry push service was my greatest solution. After doing some research I found that [...]
Multiple Domain Names to Increase SEO! *WARNING*
When choosing your first domain name it is important to remember the importance of organic search engine traffic (Google/Bing etc). If you are a small company that has not already created a strong brand it is important to consider choosing a URL that will raise the chances of people finding your page. In the end, [...]
PingChat! 2.0 New “BBM” for iPhone App – Cross Platform Compatibility
As some of you know, I work for an application developer company. I spend hours upon hours of my days researching, marketing and developing iPhone applications. Currently there is nothing that excites me more than the upcoming release of PingChat! 2.0. In short, PingChat is already a clone of the popular blackberry messenger for iPhones [...]
Facebook: “How do I DELETE my Facebook?” – Not as easy as you would think.
Facebook: How do I DELETE my Facebook? – Not as easy as you would think: Facebook’s recent privacy blunders are pushing more and more users to consider “DELETING” their Facebook accounts. Facebook being like any other company try to specialize in retention of their users. It makes perfect sense that Facebook would advocate deactivating your account rather than [...]
Facebook: Grasping The Sheer Power of Facebook
Facebook: Grasping The Sheer Power of Facebook: Facebook has been a gift from god as well as a curse to most marketing companies. It has single handedly changed the way we use the internet. In truth, how many websites do you actually use now on a regular basis? Fan pages and groups have almost wiped [...]
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