Posts Tagged ‘social media’

Using Pinterest to Promote Your Business

Posted by: Tanya on February 24th, 2012

Pinterest is a social network that describes itself as an on-line bulletin board, complete with push pins. Basically each user ”pins” the things they like, just as if they were pasting a magazine photo in a scrapbook or hanging it on a cork board.   Pinterest is organized by categories including gifts (by price), home décor, apparel, products, weddings and much more.  The social part of Pinterest comes into play as users can follow each other and check out what other users are pinning.

Unlike other bookmarking or sharing network, like Digg, or Stumbleupon, Pinterest is photo driven. If you take a look a Pinterest you will see that it is full of pictures of products and ideas people love. As a business owner wouldn’t you like that to be photos of your products and ideas?

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How to Add a Facebook Send Button to Your Website or WordPress Blog

Posted by: Tanya on April 26th, 2011

Facebook just released new share/connect functionality in the form of Send Button.  The send button enables your site visitors to send your content directly to their friends as a private message.   Unlike the share and like buttons, which post to a users wall, the send message may be more effective as it targets individuals or Groups. Presumably the recipients would have more interest in the content, otherwise why would someone send directly to them?

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How to Set Up a Personalized Facebook Username / URL

Posted by: Tanya on April 7th, 2011

Finally Get Rid of Those Crazy Long Facebook Page URL’s

In June 2009, Facebook introduced vanity URL’s (usernames) also called short urls or  personalized URL’s for both your individual profile and for fan pages. When facebook usernames were first released  there was a lot of promotion about the change and people rushed to get their desired usernames.  Almost two years later,  I am coming across many businesses and individuals who haven’t set up their vanity name.   I find that many small business owners who are just developing their presence on Facebook don’t know about usernames or how to go about setting one up.

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Flickr improves share functionality to include Facebook & Twitter

Posted by: Tanya on April 4th, 2011

Do you use Flickr to store and organize your photos?  Well, sharing these photos just got a whole lot easier.

Previously you were only able to share your Flickr images with friends and family using email, but last week Flickr updated their share function to include popular social media.   With this new functionality, you can now share your photostreams, sets, and groups on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, Worpress.com.

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The Power of Social Media: The Death of a Pop Icon, Election Corruption & Don’t Eat the Pizza!

Posted by: Tanya on June 28th, 2009

Social networking sites have become a source of instant, uncensored, free exchange of information and the impact this has had on pop culture, politics and businesses practices and marketing strategies is incredible.

The news of Michael Jackson’s cardiac arrest and ensuing death spread across the web like a wild fire.   Without a doubt, Michael’s death had a huge global interest because of its impact on pop culture and its general interest appeal. It has been reported that over 30% of total Tweet volume in the hours during and after Michael’s death were related to the event and apparently Facebook, with its larger following, actually topped Twitters figures.  The remarkable thing is this was all happening in real-time and before most of the major news outlets were reporting the occurrences.  We knew when Michael was rushed to hospital, we then knew it was a possible cardiac arrest and then we were sadly aware that he had, indeed, passed away.    But there are equally significant examples of the power of social media and how they can have an impact in politics and economics.

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