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21 Twitter 'Brand Pages'

21 Twitter 'Brand Pages'

Twitter has launched "brand pages" as part of its recent redesign. Brand pages feature large customizable header images and hig... 1 Comment | Read More »

5 New Social-Shopping Sites and Apps

5 New Social-Shopping Sites and Apps

When it comes to making product purchase decisions, customers are increasingly relying on each other for information and advice... 2 Comments | Read More »

Using LinkedIn for Your Ecommerce Business: Pros and Cons

Using LinkedIn for Your Ecommerce Business: Pros and Cons

LinkedIn appeals primarily to business professionals. It does not have as many consumer users as Facebook. But its social media... 2 Comments | Read More »

3 Ways Social Media Affects Brands

3 Ways Social Media Affects Brands

The continued growth of social networking and blog sites is having an effect on brands and how those brands are marketed. Acco... 1 Comment | Read More »

5 Content Curation Tools for Social Sharing

5 Content Curation Tools for Social Sharing

Many of us use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Yet there are hundreds of others, most of which you... 4 Comments | Read More »

20 Top Brands on Google+

20 Top Brands on Google+

A new study by social management company BrightEdge found that 61 of the top 100 global brands had a Google+ page the week afte... 0 Comments | Read More »

Celebrity Curators Help Personalize Ecommerce

Celebrity Curators Help Personalize Ecommerce

How do you stand out in a crowded market with a sizeable number of players competing mostly on low prices and free shipping? By... 0 Comments | Read More »

How to Create a Google+ Business Page

How to Create a Google+ Business Page

Google announced last week that it has launched Pages for business in its Google+ social network. I addressed this topic in m... 5 Comments | Read More »

8 Businesses on Tumblr

8 Businesses on Tumblr

Of a Kind, the first store built on blogging platform Tumblr, is one year old. The site, which sells fashion items commissioned... 2 Comments | Read More »

Using the New Delicious.com; 5 Advantages for Businesses

Using the New Delicious.com; 5 Advantages for Businesses

Delicious is a longtime social bookmarking service for storing, discovering and sharing links to online resources. The site was... 0 Comments | Read More »

StumbleUpon: Social Bookmarking Traffic Generator

StumbleUpon: Social Bookmarking Traffic Generator

StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking tool that allows users to share a website with others in their network. People use the tool... 0 Comments | Read More »

5 Pointers for Using Facebook for Your Ecommerce Business

5 Pointers for Using Facebook for Your Ecommerce Business

Many small retailers struggle with using Facebook to grow their business. Some have created Facebook pages, but are not seeing ... 3 Comments | Read More »

9 Tools for Mobile Blogging

9 Tools for Mobile Blogging

The world is moving toward an increasingly mobile lifestyle, and blogging is no different. No longer do you have to be constrai... 2 Comments | Read More »

Understanding Facebook's New 'Insights' Analytics

Understanding Facebook's New 'Insights' Analytics

Facebook recently launched a new, enhanced version of Insights, its analytics package for Fan pages. The old version contained ... 1 Comment | Read More »

Social Media: Become a 'One Percenter'

Social Media: Become a 'One Percenter'

Years ago, usability expert Jakob Nielsen developed the "Community Participation Pyramid," which some observers now call the "9... 1 Comment | Read More »

Facebook Platform Changes, Part 2: Pages

Facebook Platform Changes, Part 2: Pages

At its recent f8 developers' conference, Facebook announced extensive changes to its platform, including changes to personal "P... 0 Comments | Read More »

Facebook Platform Changes, Part 1: Profiles

Facebook Platform Changes, Part 1: Profiles

At f8 2011, Facebook's annual conference held last week for developers and entrepreneurs, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg annou... 1 Comment | Read More »

5 New Facebook Shopping Carts

5 New Facebook Shopping Carts

It has been more than a year since I wrote about Facebook shopping carts. That article was titled "Six Facebook Applications to... 4 Comments | Read More »

15 'Light-Blogging' Sites

15 'Light-Blogging' Sites

More people are light blogging. According to Quantcast, in the last year Tumblr tripled its visits per month to over 300 millio... 0 Comments | Read More »

Nearly 1-in-3 Adults Use Location-Based Services

Nearly 1-in-3 Adults Use Location-Based Services

According to a report released last week, 28 percent of American adults use some form of location-based service, either on a mo... 0 Comments | Read More »

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