Twitter Beefs-Up Security
Getting more secure has become easier across the board with two-factor authentication. Google, Apple, Facebook, Mail Chimp all offer this feature, and Twitter has recently joined. Twitter account hacks used to be funny, like when Burger King’s account was hacked to look like McDonalds. When hackers used the Associated Press account to fake a bombing [...]
The Twitter Hack Problem
This week has been a tumultuous one for Twitter due to the recent hack of the Associated Press’s Twitter page. A hacker sent out a tweet from the AP page stating, “Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured.” This event created shock waves through the stock exchange. Investors quickly reacted and [...]
Six Degrees of Social Media
American social psychologist, Stanley Milgram is known for his hypothesis that, “everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of ‘a friend of a friend’ statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six [...]
Vine: The new App in Town
Looking for a way to share video without all the fuss? Vine lets you create short, 6-second looping video with ease. Greg Brown, a writer for Ignite Social Media describes it as the “instagram of video” or something like an animated .Gif maker. Not unlike Instagram, users can post videos from the Vine App to [...]
Yahoo!: Out With The Old, In With The New?
Long-time Google spokesperson Marissa Mayer has changed sides and job titles to become Yahoo! CEO. At the top of her priorities is convincing advertisers to invest marketing budgets in Yahoo!, pushing an ethos of Yahoo! as a hub for content discovery, and helping to stem current declines. Despite popularity among Yahoo! enthusiasts, the last few years [...]
B2B Lead Generation Manifesto
Still not sure how to use social media to generate leads for your B2B business? It requires a little more work than just posting engaging articles on Facebook and Twitter. To capture lead information for your B2B business, it takes generating compelling blog content, offering free information in exchange for their email and maintaining active [...]
Social Media Rockstar or Social Media Addict?
Panic. Massive pandemonium. Confusion. Facebook had a few moments of unexpected downtime this week, which naturally sent the online world into a tizzy. People freaked out and resorted to Twitter, where they nervously tweeted their concerns. Have we reached a point of desperation? Can we really not live without checking up on statuses, pictures, new [...]