People are honest online – honestly..!
People are more honest online than they are in the real world. New research compares online profiles on LinkedIn with printed résumés.
Immortum – An App for Using Social Media After Death
Maxelerator Ltd, a venture firm announces the launch of Immortum (http://www.immortum.com), a social media site that allows continued social media interactions even after people have died. Immortum allows people especially those near end of life due to age or illness to store their memories or messages and publish them later …
How to beat Facebook
Facebook engages its visitors better than other websites according to a new study. But the research reveals how you can take on Facebook.
Entrepreneurs Utilise Social Media to Increase Their Brand Awareness
There has never been a better time for SMEs to grab the web by its digital horns and see how it could benefit their business. According to research* by specialist business insurer Hiscox entrepreneurs that have incorporated social media into their business models claim they use it to not only …
Charles Dickens would have loved the Internet
Charles Dickens was born 200 years ahead of his time. Today the world celebrates his birth back in 1812 when the notion of the World Wide Web would have been science fiction. But had Dickens been around today there is little doubt he would have loved the Internet, would have …
Social media is more problematic than cigarettes or alcohol
Social media can lead to significant urges to use it and new research says these can be more significant than the desire to smoke or drink. The urge to use media of all kinds is a real problem it seems.
Twitter users prefer information to being social
Twitter is a great social network – after all, you can have quick conversations with people, sharing your thoughts about a TV programme “live”, or commenting on a soccer player’s mishaps on the field with other Tweeters in the stadium. You can even tell people you are eating a cheese …
Don’t be too honest on Facebook
Facebook users are nothing if not honest. Several studies have shown that we are frequently more truthful online than we are in the flesh. Want to know the “real person” you meet? Take a look at what they say on Facebook and other social networks and you’ll glimpse parts of …
Profile pictures online should be baby-faced
What is the first thing you look at when you land on someone’s social network profile page? When you look at an “About Us” web page, where do your eyes go? If you are like the bulk of Internet users you will focus your attention on the eyes of the …
How to Master Facebook Marketing in 10 Days
In HubSpot’s new eBook “How to Master Facebook Marketing in 10 Days” you’ll learn how to: Evaluate successful Facebook pages Understand Facebook best practices Speak Facebook-ese Create custom Welcome Pages Create a content calendar Understand EdgeRank and the art of engagement Put on a show Create a contest Run a …
Snooping bosses should ditch the Facebook habit
Many recruiters want to know what really makes us tick by putting a magnifying glass to what we are up to on social networking sites. But new research by the Online Privacy Foundation has revealed just how well others can judge our personalities by looking us up on Facebook. While …
Fasthosts Launches Review Website for Customers
Fasthosts Internet Ltd, a leading UK web hosting provider, today announced the launch of Fasthosts Review Site, http://www.fasthostsreviews.com, a resource website dedicated to customer comments on its products and services. Fasthosts’ review site is separate to the Fasthosts homepage and provides a platform for sharing genuine experiences of using Fasthosts …
Gogobot Makes Timeline Travel Possible
Today Gogobot, the world’s largest social travel site, launched one of the first travel apps for Facebook Timeline. The new Gogobot app lets friends turn to one another for travel advice and share trip plans, photos, recommendations and personal travel guides straight to their Facebook Timeline. Users can start adding their travel …
Don’t make Facebook users stare at the wall…!
Like It Pages have developed an application which allows businesses to fully customize their Facebook pages. Like It Pages is an online tool through which you can create and edit different tabs within your Facebook fan page in a similar way to a website. This application allows companies to add …
Social media is not the place for your brand – is it?
Brands hardly get mentioned on social media, so it seems as though it’s not a good place for business – until you realise that the positive mentions dramatically outweigh the negative ones