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Facebook rolls out Timeline, intros it to mobile

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Back in September, Facebook introduced Timeline, a reinvigorated interface for user profiles that features a better layout, and showcases the users’ histories of activities. It’s not a mere account for all the activities you’ve done on the social networking giant. Instead, the timeline begins with your birth as it uses the information you provided during sign-up—in addition to all the status updates and Facebook activities you’ve taken part of.

 

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Snapshot: Gamification goes mainstream

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Gamification Goes Mainstream

While gamification is not a new concept, having been well utilized in years of educational activities, it’s only recently that it’s seen so much traction in the Internet marketing landscape. So much so that it’s become the main focus of a lot of brands looking to raise their engagements and develop good relationships with their demographic. Seattle-based, gamification startup BigDoor has released an infographic that explores gamification as fully leveraged by modern brands, significant figures and the possible directions it can take in the future, as one of the most effective and fun marketing strategies today.

 

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Twitter unveils recipient of their Golden Tweet Award

Friday, December 9th, 2011

It’s December again, it’s that time of the year when media entities online start putting out their The Best of and Next Year’s Predictions lists in every possible topic or angle for their niche. Among the first wave of Web companies to unveil their lists, social media giant Twitter has been doling out their annual #YearInReview lists since the start of the month, listing the most popular topics, tweets and users down their tubes this year.

 

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Snapshot: Understanding Viral Content Marketing

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

In the past few years, Internet marketers have been heavily relying on the social Web to be able to reach as much people as possible, and help expand their brand’s mileage online. Among the many strategies that have cropped up from the proverbial think tank that is the social media graph, viral marketing has become something a lot of brands have been trying to get into. It isn’t really an exact science, but there are visible patterns you can integrate into your own strategies, as presented via an infographic by Problogger.

 

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Weekly Link Round Up – 12-02-11

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

What’s New with Google+ (DontDrinkTheKoolAidBlog.com)

From its infancy, Google+ has continually developed to become a distinct social medium apart from Twitter and Facebook. With fresh new features such as “hangouts” and the recently launched brand pages, Google+ has become an interesting new scene for brands to market themselves on.

Why Your Business Should Be on Google+ (BrianSolis.com)

Aside from engaging the social crowd in a unique way, there’s another reason to why a business should invest in a presence on Google+. Google+ Direct Connect blurs search and social with the interesting new use of the + operator.

Google+ Ripples: The promise of shared intelligence (ComMetrics.com)

Ripples, the first set of metrics from Google about Google+, offers data visualization over time of how your posts are shared: when, by whom, and to whom. This comes as a valuable tool to marketers and businesses who want to see and study their influence (and influences) in action.

How Google+ Could Affect SEO (idaconcpts.com)

With Google HQ constantly looking for ways to improve the quality of searches, there is no doubt that its new application—Google+—plays a large part in this. Interestingly, with Google+, relevance goes hand in hand with influence.

Why Doesn’t Google+ Allow AutoSharing? (ReadWriteWeb.com)

The redesign of YouTube promoted sharing in a big way with new autoshare buttons for Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Orkut. But the question remains: why no autosharing for Google+? The following article brings to light how Google wants to treat its social networking product.

Brand in hot water? Fan loyalty to the rescue!

Friday, November 18th, 2011

Fostering a Community Can Boost a Brand

Image by Photos by Mavis

Deeply engaging with communities developed around your brand is one of the most important aspects of Internet marketing. It’s what makes it so much effective as a marketing model—setting it apart from the traditional advertising model that capitalized on one-sided announcements than actual conversations. And to be able to fully take advantage of these conversations, brands need to foster a sincere relationship with the people who believe in them.

 

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Snapshot: Tumblr’s rise in the social media space

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

We’ve often talked about taking advantage of multiple social media platforms for supercharging brand’s digital marketing campaigns, and expanding their reach. Among the many rising stars in the social Web, Tumblr has got to be among the most popular, with both individuals flocking over to it with new and reblogs of interesting posts, and brands and businesses relying on it for supercharging their Internet marketing campaign.

 

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