I want to share with you some new ways to use social media other than the traditional LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Have you ever heard of Flipboard? This is a hot new way to consume social media news from your Facebook and Twitter connections.
Flipboard Enhances Social Media as we Now Know It!
Flipboard is a recent new app for the iPad. With Flipboard you can mock up how a magazine looks, but do this while using social media content. The app helps you to collect and consume information from different sites by creating a customized dashboard on your iPad.
With your iPad Flipboard, you can visually display content from your Twitter contact lists and Facebook friend lists and easily share what you discover. Flipboard makes it easy to create a customized dashboard on your iPad and you can move things around to suit your visual style and preferences. This new Flipboard is going to be a force to be reckoned with!
Facebook’s Over 500 Million Users and How to Connect Your Business
Facebook now has over 500 million active users. Active users is defined by people who have logged on in the last 30 days, so this number changes monthly for Facebook active users. That’s a lot of people to gain access to for your business.
Facebook recently announced a massive transformational piece of news at its Developers’ Conference this past April 2010. Facebook came out with allowing you to install a social plugin on your blog, your website, and even your Facebook page. You’ve probably seen one of these plug ins lately such as the new “Like” button. Over One hundred million websites have installed the Like button already. Here’s the link to get the code for those social plugins.
Facebook is changing business thanks to these advanced social plugins.
Facebook is focused on business growth strategies and this topic was of many discussed at the Developer’s Conference. Facebook’s ad techniques were created to leverage endorsements of your fans to share their likes with their friends. When this is done, your friend who liked your ad has their name linked and also includes their review and number of stars. This was a smart move for Facebook as it makes ads less likely to appear as scams and emphasizes the core value proposition of Facebook ads which is to help multiply the love your fans already have for you-to pass this on to their friends and create viral marketing.
According to Facebook Director of Platform Product Bret Taylor, he states that “Once you put these 'like' buttons all around your site, the like buttons power a whole suite of social plugins." He further shared that an "activity streams" plugin will show all activities from the Facebook user's friend list on that third-party site. A "recommendations" plugin will provide suggested content to users. "It's not just 10 most e-mailed articles, this is truly powerful recommendations," Taylor said.
There's also a "social bar," which can provide "an all-in-one social experience" with a "like" button, Facebook chat, and friends list information that seems to be very much in the league of Google Friend Connect or the Meebo chat toolbar.
Foursquare Means Business and Supports a “buy local-stay local” message.
Foursquare is one of several location-based services, which I have personally been using to promote Albuquerque’s Independent Business Alliance message for buy local. shop local. Foursquare is similar to a game for consumers, but you can also use it from a supporting local businesses and creating awareness standpoint.
Here’s how Foursquare works. Download the application and when people come into a certain venue:
• Most likely they have their mobile phones with them
• They “check in” with Foursquare on their phone
• They say to all of their friends: “I am here. I am at this venue” and can even personalize a message about the business they are visiting.
If you own a local restaurant, a bookstore, a service organization, or any kind of brick-and-mortar business, let your visitors know you’re on Foursquare and encourage them to check in when visiting any of the businesses in town.
If you like this blog and what to share it with your friends in Facebook, your colleagues in LinkedIn or even better Tweet this, be sure to pass this blog on to others to read.
Flipboard Enhances Social Media as we Now Know It!
Flipboard is a recent new app for the iPad. With Flipboard you can mock up how a magazine looks, but do this while using social media content. The app helps you to collect and consume information from different sites by creating a customized dashboard on your iPad.
With your iPad Flipboard, you can visually display content from your Twitter contact lists and Facebook friend lists and easily share what you discover. Flipboard makes it easy to create a customized dashboard on your iPad and you can move things around to suit your visual style and preferences. This new Flipboard is going to be a force to be reckoned with!
Facebook’s Over 500 Million Users and How to Connect Your Business
Facebook now has over 500 million active users. Active users is defined by people who have logged on in the last 30 days, so this number changes monthly for Facebook active users. That’s a lot of people to gain access to for your business.
Facebook recently announced a massive transformational piece of news at its Developers’ Conference this past April 2010. Facebook came out with allowing you to install a social plugin on your blog, your website, and even your Facebook page. You’ve probably seen one of these plug ins lately such as the new “Like” button. Over One hundred million websites have installed the Like button already. Here’s the link to get the code for those social plugins.
Facebook is changing business thanks to these advanced social plugins.
Facebook is focused on business growth strategies and this topic was of many discussed at the Developer’s Conference. Facebook’s ad techniques were created to leverage endorsements of your fans to share their likes with their friends. When this is done, your friend who liked your ad has their name linked and also includes their review and number of stars. This was a smart move for Facebook as it makes ads less likely to appear as scams and emphasizes the core value proposition of Facebook ads which is to help multiply the love your fans already have for you-to pass this on to their friends and create viral marketing.
According to Facebook Director of Platform Product Bret Taylor, he states that “Once you put these 'like' buttons all around your site, the like buttons power a whole suite of social plugins." He further shared that an "activity streams" plugin will show all activities from the Facebook user's friend list on that third-party site. A "recommendations" plugin will provide suggested content to users. "It's not just 10 most e-mailed articles, this is truly powerful recommendations," Taylor said.
There's also a "social bar," which can provide "an all-in-one social experience" with a "like" button, Facebook chat, and friends list information that seems to be very much in the league of Google Friend Connect or the Meebo chat toolbar.
Foursquare Means Business and Supports a “buy local-stay local” message.
Foursquare is one of several location-based services, which I have personally been using to promote Albuquerque’s Independent Business Alliance message for buy local. shop local. Foursquare is similar to a game for consumers, but you can also use it from a supporting local businesses and creating awareness standpoint.
Here’s how Foursquare works. Download the application and when people come into a certain venue:
• Most likely they have their mobile phones with them
• They “check in” with Foursquare on their phone
• They say to all of their friends: “I am here. I am at this venue” and can even personalize a message about the business they are visiting.
If you own a local restaurant, a bookstore, a service organization, or any kind of brick-and-mortar business, let your visitors know you’re on Foursquare and encourage them to check in when visiting any of the businesses in town.
If you like this blog and what to share it with your friends in Facebook, your colleagues in LinkedIn or even better Tweet this, be sure to pass this blog on to others to read.
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