Reputation Armor notes: 40 percent of adults 30 and older used  social sites in the fall of 2009. 73 percent of adult profile owners use Facebook, 48 percent have a profile on MySpace and 14 percent use LinkedIn 37 percent of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter. Stats like these are a direct reflection on why Reputation Armor believes social networking sites are such a crucial part of reputation management. For more information Click: reputationarmor.com
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With so many social networking sites nowadays, it is sometimes difficult to identify which among them works for you. Most of them have distinct advantages and disadvantages, and it is up to you to identify which one will work for your particular needs. The features of each are sometimes overwhelming that you would want to register on all these sites. Although sometimes it becomes too cluttered with too much junk and too much information on your profile, like in Myspace profiles. Different links can be online casino, theme options, or other sites which sometimes just make your profile look so cluttered. This is the reason why sometimes visitors to Myspace sites are discouraged because it takes time to load the profile pages. I think there is a lot of improvement that can be done by the developer here. A lot of things should be considered and revamped, because nowadays, users opt for clean, uncluttered and more professional looking profiles. Aside from being user friendly and eas
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Do you have a Facebook Page for your business? I've had one for a couple years but only in the last year has it really taken off. With 400 million users, it's a force that cannot be ignored. That's where people are hanging out -- even in the demographic you serve, I'll bet. Heck, my 101 year old great aunt uses Facebook to keep up with her large extended family! I read an article on Web Pro News that supports why you must have a page - Google Makes Facebook Pages a Priority for Businesses.Google announced via Twitter this week, that public status updates from Facebook are now included in the search engine's real-time search feature. That means the largest social network in the world is getting play in Google's real-time search alongside Twitter, MySpace, and others, and these real-time results are often featured prominently on the first page of search results for the hottest queries. Content in Page updates is indexed by Google. Content on Profiles is not. I
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It seems that there are more Social Media Tools on the market today than there are Starbucks, so it's more important now than ever to save time (and money) to find the tools that excite even most experienced Social Mediaphiles. That's why ymarketing would like to share some of our favorite (and free!) Social Media Tools for 2010, in no particular order. Some of these tools have been out for some time, while others are brand spanking new. The purpose of this blog is to promote Social Media tools that will make your life easier and more fun, thus the categories will be somewhat random, but their effectiveness will not. Enjoy!   Great all-in-one comprehensive browser for real-time and social web. Tweetdeck allows users to open their Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace accounts all in one directory.   Productivity enhancement service for Social Media users. Hootsuite Helps organize, schedule, and deliver content through Facebook and Twitter.   bit.ly is one of the
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Hey folks, what are you doing? what's happening? a very general question but makes sense...isn't it? Almost everybody today is fond of answering to this question, and that too every now and then. Yes! I am talking about none other than"Twitter". It is chirping loud and long...tweets, retweets....spreading like fire...arguably the best social networking media used today.Do you think "Twitter" is the best ever social networking media created? Has it overtaken the likes of Facebook, Linkedin, Orkut, Myspace, etc? If you ask me- Yes, I believe twitter is one of the best media available today. It is likely to be the fastest growing networking media on the web. Why not? It is very easy and simple to use and thus people are attracted and have become addicted to it naturally. Moreover, mobile users too have become crazy using it..Celebrities, journalists, students, job-seekers, business tycoons, politicians are devoting time tweeting and re-tweeting information. The popularity has been so ex
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In its ambition to be a player in the red hot category of social network games, Hi5 is expected to announce today that it has acquired a social gaming platform company and a new team of executives with years of experience in online games. The San Francisco social networking company has acquired Big Six, an Austin, Texas-based social game developer that has its own battle-tested virtual currency platform. It has also hired Big Six co-founders Kevin Gliner, Monty Kerr and Chad Hansing to help run Hi5. The purchase price was not disclosed. The move is part of the company’s effort to become a leader in the social game market as it strives to compete with much bigger companies such as MySpace and Facebook. Hi5 has more than 60 million users, mostly overseas, but its growth has stalled in comparison to its larger rivals. One of the things the company is doing to turn its business around is to focus on social games. That’s why Hi5 CEO Bill Gossman hired game industry veter
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If you use the internet regularly, there is a good chance that you have heard of websites like MySpace, FriendFinder, Classmates, or Yahoo! 360. What do all of these websites have in common? They are known as social networking websites. Social networking websites, over the past few years, have rapidly increased in popularity, so much that many are wondering why.If you have used a social networking website before, it is likely that you are already fully aware of their popularity and the reason for popularity. There is just something about these websites that draw in millions of internet users. With a wide variety of different social networking websites available, there are a wide variety of different reasons for their popularity. One those reasons being the ease of use. Social networking websites are, for the most part, easy to use. Most sites are easy to navigate. In fact, many require little knowledge of the internet. In addition to being easy to navigate, social networking web
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Why Social Media Marketing Will Make A Difference To Your Company Part 1 – LinkedIn By Jess Joss So what is social media? In the spring of 2004, the term “social media’, was coined. While the definitions vary, all include these main points: Social network websites that allow individuals accessing the Internet to: a) create a public or semi-public profile within a set system, b) develop a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and c) view and interact with their list of connections and those made by others within the system. These networks include LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Digg and De.lic.ious. Social media uses various online technology tools that facilitate easy communication via the Internet, to share information and resources; including text,audio, video, images, podcasts, and other multimedia communications. According to a social media report for the Social Media Success Summit 2009, 81% of all marketers indicate that their so
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Image via CrunchBase Why do Internet users continually resist paid content on a systematic basis? Keep in mind that many current Internet business models were built on the premise, (create the content and they will come). We have all seen the sterling examples of this model with Google, Facebook, MySpace, Hulu, YouTube, along with a host of others, including news organizations betting on ad supported revenues to make a profit. While this model worked for some businesses, it has not for others. Relying solely on ad supported revenues is a weak model, as the Broadcast TV Industry found out the hard way. Historically, news organizations relied heavily on paper subscription models supplemented with ad revenues to make their profits. Linear TV models like CNN and Fox News relied heavily on the Cable Industry’s monthly subscription models while being supplemented with ad revenues. These amounted to dual and re-occurring revenue stream models, realizing the best of revenue worlds, su
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Image via CrunchBase Why do Internet users continually resist paid content on a systematic basis? Keep in mind that many current Internet business models were built on the premise, (create the content and they will come). We have all seen the sterling examples of this model with Google, Facebook, MySpace, Hulu, YouTube, along with a host of others, including news organizations betting on ad supported revenues to make a profit. While this model worked for some businesses, it has not for others. Relying solely on ad supported revenues is a weak model, as the Broadcast TV Industry found out the hard way. Historically, news organizations relied heavily on paper subscription models supplemented with ad revenues to make their profits. Linear TV models like CNN and Fox News relied heavily on the Cable Industry’s monthly subscription models while being supplemented with ad revenues. These amounted to dual and re-occurring revenue stream models, realizing the best of revenue worlds, su
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