A Basic Outline For Creating A Social Media Strategy

R2iNTEGRATED released a social media survey recently that does in fact show an increased level of participation by many companies in social media but yet only half of them are entering with a strategy in place. So why aren’t these companies drafting social media strategies? Is it because social media is a relatively new field and companies are unsure of what to include in a social media strategy? Is the perceived...

Got 5 Minutes? Add Some Facebook Social Plugins To Your Site

If you want to get up and running quickly with the new suite of Social Plugins offered by Facebook it really is as simple as adding one line of code and under most circumstances will take you less than five minutes. If you would like to see or try out a couple of the Facebook social features before implementing them in to your own site you can scroll to the bottom of this post to see the Like plugin (feel free to...

What Makes A Good Facebook Fan Page?

“Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.” — Pablo Picasso I wanted to understand how to create a top fan page on Facebook and so I began investigating many of the biggest brands and their pages and searching for a commonality between them that helped turn them into pages with hundreds of thousands active fans. Since many of us do not have the brand power of the Coca-Cola’s, Linkin Park’s, Skittles and the...

14 Tools Or Services To Help You Get The Most Out Of Twitter

Using Twitter or any of the other social networks shouldn’t be a painful experience but yet many people find the thought of using Twitter to be a daunting and scary task. With that in mind I have come up with a list of 14 excellent tools and services you can use to help get the most out of your Twitter experience. A robust desktop app – The Twitter website has come a long ways in terms of functionality...

14 Tips To Help You, Your Brand Or Your Business Get Started In Social Media

Are you looking for a few tips to help kick start your social media/networking experience? Here are 7 Do’s and 7 Don’ts of social networks that can hopefully help guide your social media journey in the right direction and because I couldn’t stop writing there is a bonus tip at the end. Do Do go and join at least one social network right now and after creating your account sit back, monitor and discover how...