In­ter­est­ing view on Klout and so­cial pro­fil­ing. On­line in­flu­ence is be­com­ing a highly dis­cussed top­ics. As mar­keters we usu­ally don’t look at the ‘moral’ as­pects of scor­ing peo­ple. […]

What does Google say? A Google spokesman said in a state­ment that the com­pany is al­ways look­ing for bet­ter ways to help users share con­tent and con­nect across […]

Ex­cel­lent ar­ti­cle about en­gag­ing with cus­tomers with so­cial me­dia and email mar­ket­ing. The com­ments are in­ter­est­ing, too! But I find some of the com­menters ‘ra­tio­nal­ize’ and un­der­es­ti­mate the […]

In­ter­est­ing ar­ti­cle here: Two rea­sons to use Facebook’s sched­ul­ing func­tion https://leaderswest.com/2012/06/01/two-reasons-to-use-facebooks-scheduling-function/  #face­book   #so­cial­me­dia  

Google Places pages have been en­tirely re­placed by new Google+ Lo­cal pages That should help in­crease the pop­u­lar­ity of Google Plus. https://searchengineland.com/google-places-is-over-company-makes-google-the-center-of-gravity-for-local-search-122770 Em­bed­ded Link Google Places Is Over, […]

Quote: „Our re­search has dis­tilled tens of mil­lions of con­sumer data points into a strik­ingly clear pic­ture of today’s con­sumers. Here are ten of the most in­ter­est­ing things. […]

Put a unique twist on mun­dane things. Make peo­ple stop and think. Make them smile. Is there some­thing mun­dane in your busi­ness that can you use in a […]

HBO co-pres­i­­dent Eric Kessler has said he thinks the move away from tra­di­tional tele­vi­sion to an in­­ter­net-based model is just a fad that will pass – a “tem­po­rary […]

A longer-than-most blog post from +Seth Godin. Moves you from il­lu­sion to re­al­ity, and from crap to value. https://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/05/how-to-make-money-online.html    

Does +Klout mat­ter? De­spite every­body agree­ing that #in­flu­ence­met­rics are ques­tion­able, here’s a hint whether this new in­dus­try will suc­ceed big time, or not. The im­age be­low shows in­crease […]

You’ve read the heated dis­cus­sions about Google plus be­ing a ‘Ghost town’ and pro­files not get­ting en­gage­ment on g+. I com­pared the Face­book and Google plus posts from […]

„a very well com­posed and di­rected de­scrip­tion about the topic It will al­ways be stim­u­lat­ing to read con­tent from other writ­ers and prac­tice a lit­tle some­thing from their […]

Google plus will be in­te­grated big time into Google news. I have pre­vi­ously seen the au­thor­ship info on Google news ar­ti­cles, with link to the news’ au­thor’s g+ […]

There’s a time a man must face the TRUTH! I liked Google plus bet­ter than Face­book. I called my­self a Google Plus Am­bas­sador. Then I looked at the […]

Busi­ness think­ing out­side of the box - one of the smartest eCom­merce ideas I’ve seen in a long time I have no idea whether it will work, but […]

Google Drive is live - and here’s an­other ex­am­ple for fast-food-jour­­nal­ism Why news jour­nal­ism is mean­ing­less, Part 6 So, it’s Day 1 for Google drive, and +The Next […]

Sprout­So­cial los­ing com­pet­i­tive ad­van­tage? #so­cial­me­dia is a lot about find­ing great links and shar­ing them to your so­cial net­works. One of the main rea­sons why I’m us­ing +Hoot­Suite […]

How +Klout, Kred & Co. de­liver sur­pris­ing in­sights for busi­ness De­spite the in­dus­try be­ing in its in­fancy - and get­ting lots of crit­i­cism for that - I’m fas­ci­nated […]

o. Di­lut­ing the Mean­ing of So­cial ‘So­cial Busi­ness’ and ‘So­cial In­flu­ence’ had a very spe­cific mean­ing a few years back. Now they’re in­creas­ingly used in the sim­ple con­text […]

I’ve been re­search­ing #so­cial­me­di­ain­flu­ence for sev­eral weeks now. That is: the scor­ing of your in­flu­ence based on how con­nected you are on the web, and how peo­ple re­spond […]

When the con­trol freaks win, the in­ter­net as we know it is gone. Pres­sure is mount­ing. My pre­dic­tion: In the end it will be the gov­ern­ments who end […]

Ex­cel­lent analy­sis from +Dan From­mer why and how Face­book could se­ri­ously hurt Googe’s ad busi­ness. https://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_facebook_terrifies_google.php #ibmm Em­bed­ded Link Why Face­book Ter­ri­fies Google Google is still the biggest, […]

I’m not com­plain­ing, only de­scrib­ing what I no­tice in my own be­hav­ior. I like many as­pects of the new de­sign, ex­cept this:I find my own in­ter­ac­tion on g+ […]

This is the best pre­sen­ta­tion of what g+ is meant to be that I’ve seen lately. For­tu­nately in­te­viewer +Rafe Needle­man is giv­ing +Vic Gun­do­tra and +Bradley Horowitz enough […]

Slideshow with 15 #white­space ideas.And make sure to read the news ar­tilce on the linked page:Google Ac­quires White­Space For $120M Em­bed­ded Link Google+ re­design gen­er­ates wicked #white­space meme […]

Google plus pro­files en­hanc­ing Google News I knew they showed up in search re­sults, but this is the first time I saw it on Google News.   Google+: […]

G+ News - Changes to a Flex­i­ble Side­bar Nav­i­ga­tion Google+: View post on Google+

Quote: „Project Glass will be the first step in a rev­o­lu­tion­ary new de­vel­op­ment within the world of mo­bile tech­nol­ogy. In sim­ple terms, it could elim­i­nate the need for […]

Is So­cial Me­dia eat­ing away too much of your time? Here are time sav­ing tips on how to get the most out of each net­work with just a […]

Some­thing to think about! Re­shared post from +Brock Pre­dovich Rock ON Small Busi­nesses!!! Google+: View post on Google+

Mh, some­thing’s wrong with my bank ac­count.… 3^rd UPDATE: AOL Sells Patents To Mi­crosoft In $1.06B Deal --AOL sells more than 800 patents to Mi­crosoft in $1.06B deal. […]

Mark Zucker­berg wrote on Face­book: „I’m ex­cited to share the news that we’ve agreed to ac­quire In­sta­gram and that their tal­ented team will be join­ing Facebook.”„We think the […]

„Google+ is ac­tu­ally sixth on the list of most-pop­u­lar so­cial net­works for March vis­its. Face­book takes first, fol­lowed by Twit­ter, rel­a­tive new­comer Pin­ter­est, Linkedin, and Tagged.” The sta­tis­tic […]

Need more ex­po­sure for your blog? Or help with fill­ing your blog with good con­tent? Re­shared post from +Joseph Bush­nell Where to find Guest Blog­gers & be a […]

Re­shared post from +Va­lerie Miles Hang­out Med­i­ta­tion? In al­bum March 17, 2012 (1 photo) Google+: View post on Google+

A blog­ger, a teacher, and a 15 year old boy make a dif­fer­ence in this amaz­ing post. Oh, and a mother, too. I al­most for­got to add that! […]

t. I don’t see it as neg­a­tive as +Jonathan Leger in his post linked be­low, but his points are valid. The sys­tem can be and will be mis-used. […]

It has been shared quite a bit to­day, and right­fully so. If you haven’t down­loaded this year’s ‘So­cial Me­dia Mar­ket­ing In­dus­try Re­port’, you should do so now. Don’t […]

I’ve just fin­ished read­ing the “2012 So­cial Me­dia Mar­ket­ing In­dus­try Re­port” and for me 3 facts re­ally stand out on the sur­pris­ing side. In case you never heard […]

I pre­dict he’s go­ing to run for pres­i­dent within 8 years. Re­shared post from +Cather­ine Maguire This this is the most enor­mous amount of cods wal­lop I’ve lis­tened […]

Ah, well. Last month I tried out a new blog theme, based on a so called frame­work. Within 1 month my Google traf­fic went down 40%. I could […]

Re­verse each of these 16 points, and you’ll get great so­cial me­dia re­sults. Re­shared post from +Ka­mal Ben­nani 16 Ter­ri­ble So­cial Me­dia Mis­takes You’re Mak­ing Thanks to +Aaron […]

There have been a few ser­vices of­fer­ing RSS feeds from your Google plus stream. One by one, they seem to go out of ser­vice. An­other one just van­ished, […]

I’m re­leas­ing two new tools for every­one to use. They have been on­line for some time, but only for my team, and not of­fi­cially linked on my blog. […]

To­day I’m switch­ing to a new theme. It might be bumpy for a while, I have to recre­ate some cus­tom pro­gram­ming. If you run into prob­lems, es­pe­cially with […]

To­day’s news is hope­fully good news for af­fil­i­ate mar­keters, es­pe­cially those pro­mot­ing Amazon.com. Af­ter a long and heated dis­pute re­gard­ing the sales tax, Ama­zon and the State of […]

No mat­ter how many great strate­gies you use, if you do not re­ally in­tend to reach out to your cus­tomers, there will be no point in start­ing an […]