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Not only Pinterest can make money out of Pinterest
Earlier this week I read a couple of articles that took glee in revealing that Pinterest was “modifying user pins” to make money. This Daily Mail-style, ill-informed scare-mongering made out that...
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A guide to the new Facebook page timeline layout
Facebook has made wholesale changes to the way business pages work, mainly to bring them in line with the new Timeline layout that was introduced for profiles but also to introduce some new features...
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Posting crap on Pinterest gets results (sort of)
Which person among us does not revert to childhood whenever there is a fart joke or a poo joke in the room? They never fail to get a giggle (or perhaps it’s just me) and this would explain, I guess,...
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Facebook forces its email on everyone
Facebook is once again riding roughshod over personal account settings by changing the default email in everyone’s accounts to an @facebook.com address. Look at your personal profile page on Facebook...
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LinkedIn introduces follower statistics for company pages
I was pleased to receive an email from LinkedIn telling me about the launch of its new statistics feature for company pages. Here’s what the email said. “We’d like to let you know about an exciting new...
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8.7% of Facebook members don’t have faces
Facebook has revealed that 8.7% of its user accounts are either fake or not legitimate. Now that it is a public company with analysts nipping at its heels, Facebook is required to release key...
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Using Facebook gives you no privacy, not really
Did you read the terms and conditions of Facebook when you signed up? Are you aware of what being a member means? Each time you upload photos of your kids in funny costumes, or friends at parties, you...
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Cold calling defined by LinkedIn in Hangout
Last week I wrote this post entitled No, LinkedIn is not a source for your cold calling. This was subsequently re-published on Business2Community, here. This led to communication from one of the two...
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TV viewing still beats social media
We spend twice as much time watching TV as using social media, according to a survey by Panasonic. That may change if people start buying the social media-enabled Viera TVs that happen to be made by...
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Why I’ll never buy anything via Facebook again
Facebook has never struck me as a secure environment. Despite its claims to the contrary, it offers no guarantee of privacy. Now I discovered the dangers of making purchases via Facebook. Today I...
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Twitter adds broad matching to ad options
Twitter has announced that advertisers can now target users based on broad matching of keywords. This means, if you are running a paid campaign on the social network, you can have your ads appear based...
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See who posted to your Facebook page
Facebook has changed pages slightly so that page managers can now see who posted content to the page. Only page admins can see the information. This is a good move. Because page administrators are...
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How to use keyboard shortcuts on Twitter
According to Statisticsbrain, 43% of Twitter users tweet from their phone while 60% of tweets come from third party applications. So a large proportion of Twitter’s users are still using the web...
View ArticleHow to delete a company on LinkedIn
Have you run a company in the past that is no longer operating? Maybe your company has acquired another one. Perhaps you would like to get rid of the closed company on LinkedIn, in the interests of...
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Is Google Plus a useless social network? See the stats
About 90% of the professionals I work with believe Google Plus is a joke. That statistic is based on the number of people who laugh at it when it comes up in conversation, and based on the information...
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How to link your Facebook and Twitter to Pinterest
When you post an image or video on Pinterest, you can also post it to Facebook simultaneously. People can then like or comment on the Pinterest content within Facebook as well as within Pinterest. This...
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Hootsuite adds Instagram scheduled posting
You can now post to Instagram via the Hootsuite application. Instagram has taken a while to add user interface enhancements that make it easy to use. It recently added a search bar to the desktop...
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Spice is the variety of life for The Curry Guy
Meet Dan Toombs – also known as The Curry Guy, who has more than 74,000 followers on Twitter and a very busy website all about curry. I started following Dan on Twitter when he responded to something I...
View ArticleGoodbye influencer marketing. Hello friend marketing?
We are barely at the crest of the wave of influencer marketing – many traditional marketers still haven’t adopted the phrase in their daily parlance. Now people are already discussing the possibility...
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Memes – legal or not?
The European Union is considering creating a law to make memes illegal if they contain copyright material. The first thing to consider with this statement is that memes that contain copyright material...
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