Archive for August, 2012

Facebook Cleans House by Deleting all Inactive and Non-Human Accounts

August 26, 2012

Buffer As Facebook nearly approaches the 100 million mark of active monthly users, they are doing some in-house cleaning that may affect you. In their recent regulatory filing, Facebook announced that 9% of its users are made up of duplicate or fake profiles (fake meaning non-human, such as a profile for a pet). This does [...]

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Posted in Erin Ryan, Facebook, Facebook Changes, Facebook Pages, Social Media for Businesses, Social Media News, Social Media Stats, Writers, Your Social Networks 2 Comments »

Journalistic Cursing: Is this what Online News has come to?

August 19, 2012

Buffer Have you noticed an incline in curse words online? I am not referring to your social networks, or Internet memes. Instead, there has been a pop up of curse words in headlines of news stories or in articles that don’t even bother to use the asterisk or random symbols anymore, they just bluntly write [...]

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Posted in Blogging Tips, Erin Ryan, Social Media Marketing, Social Media News, Social Opinions, The Social Web, Writers, Your Social Networks 1 Comment »

Stageit Reinvents the Music Industry by giving Fans a Backstage Experience Online

August 13, 2012

Buffer From records, 8 tracks, cassette tapes to compact discs, music has always been therapeutic. A single song can speak the words we mean to say, play the beats that make us move and instantaneously take us back in time, it has been a commonality that unites us. Whether liking the same genre, band or [...]

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Posted in Erin Ryan, Niche Social Networks, Social Media Marketing, Social Media News, Social Startups, Social Technology, The Social Web, Videos, Writers, Your Social Networks 7 Comments »

Should you Blog just to Blog? Nope.

August 11, 2012

Buffer I can almost hear the screams through my screen regarding SEO and why you need to keep your blog updated regularly and before I continue, I will say that I do agree that Search Engine Optimization is important for people to know that you exist. However, why you blog should not be dependent on [...]

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PinAlerts Allows You to Track Who Pins from your Website or Blog

August 5, 2012

Buffer The photo sharing social site Pinterest, is much like a social bookmarking site for pictures. Many people have flocked to this site to share what they enjoy through visual communication by creating boards on various topics, adding them to provided categories and accumulating photos/videos that they have either created or have found on the [...]

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Posted in Erin Ryan, Pinterest, Social Bookmarking Sites, Social Media for Businesses, Social Media Marketing, Social Media News, Social Media Stats, Social Tools, Writers, Your Social Networks 2 Comments »