Courtesy of Uservoice You’ll have heard, I’m sure, that today is global Community Manager Appreciation Day. The day you get to say ‘thanks’ to your friendly local community manager, and community managers throughout the world meet up virtually in a G+ hangoutor with real live glasses in their hands at real live meet ups.You can [...]
A social media links of the week list curated from a (mostly) US perspective. Enjoy! Obama Goes Viral US President Obama found himself a trending topic for his charming falsetto. At New York’s Apollo Theatre for a fundraising event, Obama sang a few bars of Reverend Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.” Since Thursday, the [...]
The pharmaceutical industry has been waiting (and waiting, and waiting) for guidance from the United States Food and Drug Administration on what is and isn’t allowed in terms of social media communication and marketing. Now just a little has come through – but is it of any help? We think not much … In November [...]
A social media links of the week list curated from a (mostly) US perspective. Enjoy! SOPA Blackout Only time will tell which sites “go dark” on Wednesday, January 18 in protest against pending US SOPA/PIPA legislation. Reddit, Minecraft, Tucows, Major League Gaming, I Can Haz Cheezburger Network and others have stated their intentions to silence their online presences in protest, with [...]
Nielsen have released the State of Consumer Usage Report for 2011, which dissects the US consumption of online media. It’s a statistician’s smorgasbord of easily-digestible infographs on smartphone usage, TV viewing platforms, simultaneous screen usage and top app categories. Who knew that Asians prefer iPhones to Android, and (sorry, social telly) the most frequent online activity while watching TV is checking [...]
A social media links list curated from a (mostly) US perspective. Below are just a few of the week’s Social Media reads that tickled our funny bones. Enjoy! Instagram in the News It has been an interesting week for Instagram, the iPhone photo sharing service that the WSJ includes as one of the new “niche” [...]
Courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/usfsregion5/ (This post first appeared in Tamara’s blog on iMedia Connection 29 Dec 2011) There have been some truly atrocious examples of brands astroturfing: paying people or even using software to flood internet forums and social media with positive comments. Sadly, the practice continues, particularly in emerging markets. Seeding interest in a campaign [...]
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Starting us off right, Google has made that all-important change – Google+ now allows multiple admins to brand pages. It was announced on Google+ Update: Making Improvements to Pages back in December (too late for me to be able to delegate Page Updates during my winter holiday of course, natch) .You can now delegate [...]
A social media links list curated from a (mostly) US perspective. Below are just a few of the end o’ year Social Media reads that captured our imagination. Enjoy! Social Media New Year’s Resolutions Bianca Bosker for HuffPost is thinking about her online habits and making a few resolutions. We especially liked her “privacy audit” [...]
A social media links list curated from a (mostly) US perspective. Below are just a few of the week’s Social Media reads that captured our imagination. Enjoy! Dear Congress: It’s No Longer Ok to Not Know How the Internet Works Last week’s links list included an infographic that makes SOPA simple to understand. This week, [...]