What is Social Media Storytelling?

The combination of social media and storytelling, the term social media storytelling could be the holy grail of buzzwords. By B2C

Facebook for iOS updated to include free calling

Facebook today updated its iOS app to include free user-to-user calling. The feature launched one month ago inside Facebook's standalone Messenger app, but has now been graduated to the company's primary app, which has a much larger install base. By The Verge

Before Google, Sergey Brin tried...

Before Google co-founder Sergey Brin started the work that would make him famous, he tried to remake the business of pizza delivery. By The Verge

Want Google Glass?

Google Glass, Google's most exciting, as-yet-unfinished experiment, may finally be moving officially out of the "Project" phase. On Wednesday, the search giant launched an application contest to let regular people from all walks of life try out the head-mounted, augmented reality "glasses." They simply have to prove they deserve it. By Mashable

Twitter Now Reducing Some Tweets To 117 Characters

If you’re tweeting out a URL, your tweets just got a bit shorter. By Mashable

Expanding your personal network online

With so much emphasis on your online network and personal brand, understanding how to leverage the power of social media is a skill worth learning. By Fast Company

Social Media Will Be Primary Channel for Engaging Customers, CEOs Predict

Social media will be the most important technology channel used by companies to engage with their customers within three to five years, according to a survey of 1,700 CEOs from around the world conducted by IBM. By The Social Graf

Good time to update these Facebook privacy settings

No, Graph Search doesn't affect your privacy settings, but it surely makes digging up information about you really easy. Now's a good time to review what you're sharing and how you're sharing it. By CNET

Tech Pros Weigh-In On Facebook's Graph Search

Graph Search is essentially a massive Big Data play, which involves the search of huge amounts of information on over 1 billion members. It could also eventually be a nice money maker. By Forbes

2013 Update for Marketing Your Social Media Services through LinkedIn

LinkedIn has proven itself a valuable resource for job seekers and professional service providers alike. The greatest value of LinkedIn for SEO service providers is the ability to connect with other business professionals who need marketers to help them promote their products. By Social Media Today

Social Media Marketing in 2013

There will be many businesses and individuals examining their social media engagement in the next few weeks, as another year commences. And one of the most pressing elements for those engaging online will be how to deliver successful social media marketing in 2013. By Social Media Today

Facebook Nearby and How to Use it

Like Google+ Local, and Qype and Foursquare before it; Facebook is getting into the local mobile search area with its new Facebook Nearby effort. By Social Media Today

10 Reasons Why You (May) Suck on Twitter

Despite all the goodness of Twitter, there is always a cross-section of people who make some big mistakes…either from ignorance or out of arrogance. By Social Media Today

Facebook Obscures User Counts Of Apps On Its Platform But Starts Reporting App Rankings

To prevent people thinking Facebook apps are losing users when there are bugs in the user count data it reports to services like AppData, starting January 16th Facebook will only report user counts in much broader tiered thresholds instead of to the nearest 100,000 starting January 16th. By Techcrunch

Google Plus Post Links Now No Followed by Google

According to Dan Petrovic of Dejan SEO, as of 5 January 2012 Google stopped following (for link juice purposes) links placed in posts on Google+. By Virante Orange Juice

Why Multimedia Content Brings Better Press Release Results

When it comes to creating engaging press releases, the secret to getting a bigger response is simple. By PR Company

Path Search Update Is a Smart Trip Down Memory Lane

Path has rolled out a new search function to its iOS and Android apps, allowing users to recall stories and memories they have shared on the social platform in the past. By Mashable

Facebook Timeline Change: It's Starting

Remember the Facebook Timeline changes some users started to notice in December? The ones that include a row of fresh options at the top of the page, below your picture, and the banishment of "Maps" and thumbnail images? By Mashable

The BEST Tools & Apps for Online Music Marketing in 2012

Here's a list of some of the best apps in 2012. By Jaden Social

The Best Video Strategy for 2013: YouTube Live & Google+

Mari Smith, called the “Pied Piper” of Facebook by Fast Company, has claimed “2013 The Year of The Video” and even has a webinar set for free on Jan 24, 2013 at 11AM to teach others how to capitalize on it. By Digital Ethos

Facebook Tip: Organizing, Moving and Editing Your Photos And Albums

We all love to post photos on Facebook, right? The challenge is that while positing photos is easy to do from your phone or tablet, organizing them into albums within Facebook can be a real pain-in-the-you-know-what. By SocMed Sean

Do Teens Prefer Social Media To Real Life?

Fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites. By SocMed Sean

Social media is unavoidable. Churches use it to get out information to members. Civic groups keep their residents informed on local issues. Restaurants, sports teams, and entertainment organizations alert their interested members to upcoming events as well as ticket and menu specials. Companies increase brand awareness and loyalty. By Social Media Revolver

Fascinating Facebook Facts for Marketers

Facebook isn’t simply the web’s most popular site, it’s also the web’s most interesting site. By Social Media Revolver

The ‘war on women’ meets social media

At the very beginning of 2013, Republicans are demonstrating they learned nothing from the defeats handed to them by their “War on Women” in 2012. By Washington Post

5 Simple Facebook Tips And Tricks To Supercharge Your Business

Here are a few Facebook tips and tricks that everyone can use to help supercharge their business. By The Work At Home Woman

The Ultimate Lifehack for 2013: 200+ Incredible Sites & Services

Are you ready to ruin any chance you had of getting any work done today? This list represents “the best of the best” of the tech world’s resources DailyTekk curated over 2012. Culled from nearly 30 top 100 lists, this exclusive roundup represents the top 10 Editor’s Choice selections from our most popular lists of last year. By Dailytekk

8 Must-Have Apps for Your Mobile/Social Business

Doing business in 2013 is going to be a whole lot easier if you can take your business with you on the road. By Mashable

Customer Service Goes Social [Infographic]

Customer service is a huge part of any business. Bad customer service can result in a lost customer; in fact, 800 out of 1,000 people surveyed said they did not make a specific purchase due to bad customer service. By Soshable

Do Facebook Ads Work? [Infographic]

Many people -especially internet marketers- are curious to know whither Facebook Ads work or it’s just another way of wasting money compared to Google Adwords, which has been proven to work. By Mashable

People, Online Tools and Social Platforms that Sabotage and Intimidate

Wouldn’t it be better to speak of things that can be changed or improved, things that should be empowered, trying to help or contribute. By Mashable

Score Your Next Job With LinkedIn Premium

Is your new year's resolution to get out of your dead-end job, or to find a job in the first place? By Mashable

Inside YouTube's Plan to Dominate Your TV

Quick: Think of watching a YouTube video. What kind of screen pops into your head? By Mashable

Blind Man Uses Instagram To Share Images

Tommy Edison is blind but still enjoys using the photo editing and sharing app, Instagram. By Mashable

20 reasons why Google Plus is a must [Infographic]

It seems like many people have fooled themselves into believing that Google+ is nothing more than a ghost town and perhaps the interactions on this social platform is not as quick as Twitter and Facebook or perhaps you haven’t circled the right people. By Sosable

Facebook Nearby: A Mobile Discovery Experience for Your Business

If you have a business page setup on Facebook and looking to gain more local people on your page as well as spread your brand further within your community, Facebook Nearby is a new mobile location based feature that has been helping profiles thus far but as of last month, Facebook decided to add a global update to their feature and include “Nearby” for businesses as well. By Soshable

Context is the new battleground between Android and iOS

It’s not just Google Now that shows you information about your next meeting. By Scobleizer

eBay talks about a contextual future for its mobile efforts

eBay sells billions of dollars of things on mobile. Cars. Boats. Jewelry. Clothes. Gadgets. And more. Here Steve Yankovich, VP of mobile and platform at eBay, tells me how eBay is competing with Amazon. What the trends on mobile are.

The contextual and exponential future of Facebook

Rocky Barbanica and Robert Scoble visited Facebook’s headquarters and interviewed a bunch of people for the book “Age of Context” that he's writing with Shel Israel. By Scobleizer

Your Social Media Team Will Add A Dedicated Content Strategist

Successful “social media” strategy lives at the intersection of the information needs of the social audiences you can grow, obtain and nurture, the content you can create or curate for them, and the right choice of social platforms that you use to deliver your message. By Social Fresh

Google+ Hits One Out of the Park with Customer Responsive Updates

Google recently wowed the social media crowd with its Google+ communities but immediately the Google+kins were voicing their concerns and complaints. By Positively Peggy

Five Fab People to Follow on Google+

These five people provide value and depth into my Google+ experience. If you’re just starting out, you can watch and learn how they do things and if you’ve been around dig deeper with these Google+kins for a fantastic ride. By Positively Peggy

Social Media Risk Management is a Neccessity for Regulated and Publicly Traded Companies

For many companies the barrier to adopting social media or expanding their digital marketing strategy is risk. These are not small risks; these companies have come face to face with a reality that many of us can’t even fathom. By Social Media Explorer

Twitter Advertising - A Quick Guide

Twitter is the micro-blogging Godzilla. It’s a social media behemoth capable of housing over 460 million accounts and managing 175 million outgoing Tweets daily. By Socialmedia Today

Top 50 Branded Facebook Pages of 2012

10 New Brands Make the List. By Socialmedia Today

Key Opinion Leaders on Twitter

The increasing impact of social media gives modern marketing a lot to think about; Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Pinterest, Google+ and hundreds of blogs are only the tip of the iceberg, and it seems impossible to be up-to-date on all the channels. By Socialmedia Today

Mobile Playbook

The busy executive's guide to winning with mobile. By Google

Why The Future Won't Be a Waste of Time

Predictions have a unique way of coming back to haunt even the best of us. I don't care if you're Steve Jobs or Nostradamus, no one has an infallible crystal ball. By Think With Google

Imagining The Future

Last month, famed inventor, entrepreneur and futurist, Ray Kurwzeil, announced that he was joining Google as a director of engineering. In an email to TechCrunch, Kurzweil said at the time that he would be assuming a full-time position in Mountain View, focusing on “new technology development,” as well as machine learning and language processing. By Techcrunch

Google+ Has 105 Million Unique Monthly Visitors

Google+ has joined Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in the 100 million-plus-unique-visitors-per-month club, but it's lagging in mobile, according to data from comScore. By Mashable

Facebook Adds Voice Messaging to Its Messenger App

Facebook added the ability to send voice messages to its Messenger app for iOS and Android Thursday. By Mashable

5 Social Media Biz Strategies You'll See This Year

The way businesses use social media in 2013 will change the way customers and companies interact on the medium. According to social intelligence firm newBrandAnalytics, here are some of those changes. By Mashable

Pinterest and recipes

Cooking inspiration is already one of Pinterest users’ biggest reasons for using the popular social network, and Pinterest has decided to make the most of that trend. Its first acquisition is recipe aggregator and culinary inspiration portal Punchfork.

Facebook tests Wi-Fi calling, and voice app in Canada

Facebook is testing out Wi-Fi based calling in Canada with its latest update to its Messenger app. By Gigaom

3 Lessons We Can Learn From Big Brands In Social Media

The three brands outlined here will give you a little creative inspiration to bump up engagement on your social media pages. By Socialmouths

What To Know When Including Google+ Into Your Social Media Marketing Plan

When Google announced that they would be releasing a new social media platform, heads turned. Yes, the same Google that completely missed the mark with Google Buzz not too long ago. By Socialmouths

Pinterest’s New Secret Boards: Why They Matter

If the whole point of Pinterest is pinning what we find interesting or inspiring, think about how the network’s new secret boards can be good for marketing—allowing you to gather ideas without anyone else following along! By Socialmouths

Social Media To Rank Your App In Apple’s Top Lists

This false misconception that Apps are get-rich-fast type of products has caused more damage than you can imagine to innocent developers’ pockets. By Socialmouths

Instagram: The Beginning Of The End?

Is this the beginning of the end for Instagram? Is Facebook going to end up killing the coolest app/network since Twitter? By Socialmouths

Your Social Media Marketing Checklist for 2013

As we enter a hopeful new year, here are some key items for your corporate social media strategy checklist for 2013. By Mashable

Advertising on LinkedIn: Your Guide for 2013

LinkedIn Advertising allows access to millions of users who drive business decisions. According to the company, as of Sept. 30, 2012, it operates the world's largest professional network on the Internet with more than 187 million members in more than 200 countries and territories. LinkedIn also claims four out of five members drive business decisions. By Mashable

Facebook in 2012: A Billion Users and Counting

Facebook is the most popular social network on the planet. It celebrated its eighth birthday on Feb. 4, 2012. Although Facebook has only been around since 2004, it certainly seems like much longer. By Mashable

9 Ways Your Startup Can Use Social Media Lists

From Foursquare to Facebook, using social media lists as a personal curation tool is an increasingly easy and fun way to sort through the noise on your favorite network. By Mashable

How to Measure Social Media ROI – Is It Even Possible?

It seems preposterous to suggest that there are online companies that put time and money into social media and don’t bother to measure their return on investment (ROI). By Socialmedia Today

70% of Mobile Searches Lead to Action Within 1 Hour

Eloqua, the international marketing automation firm, has assembled a selection of key mobile marketing facts, assessing the importance of mobile usage, key aspects of user behavior, and future trends for mobile marketers. By Socialmedia Today

This is Your Brain on Social Media

It’s no secret that the phenomenon of social media not only dominates the communication pathways of younger generations, it’s also completely revolutionized the way people interact with each other the whole world over. By Socialmedia Today

Social Engagement Exam

You might be interested in some data that came out today from Spredfast. They’ve looked at the social programs of over 150 large companies and come up with some interesting insights into how these programs are faring. By Socialmedia Today

Ten Brands to Follow on Twitter for Inspiration

Whether you use Twitter for business, pleasure or both it is worth following some of the best loved global brands. By Socialmedia Today

10 Of The Year’s Best Designs For Social Good

The term "do-gooder" has been a pejorative since the 1650s, when a British doctor coined it to refer to misguided idealists. Yet it’s tough to be blasé about do-gooders in 2012, a year in which we saw social innovation blossoming across creative fields. By Fast Company