Disclaimer: I am obsessed with Blogger and believe it’s the best blogging platform ever. Today Google revealed a new feature for their blogging platform, it allows visitors to view a blog in a number of different ways. In order to try this new feature out, simply go to your favorite “Blogger” blog, e.g. blogs that end with “.blogspot.com” more...
Social media has been accepted as a lucrative and beneficial way of connecting with your consumer by businesses. Some of the top Facebook Pages belong to businesses, Coca-cola and Starbucks are both in the top 30 of the most popular Pages on Facebook. While Whole Foods is one of the top followed accounts on Twitter. Still, many B2B companies are hesitant more...
The growing use of social media tools makes it hard for us to keep track of the precise numbers at any particular point of time, so I thought it would be valuable to post the latest stats of all the popular social media networks. Facebook There are currently over 642 million Facebook users worldwide The top 5 countries on Facebook are: United States more...
A number of Holt Renfrew customers took to Twitter this weekend to express their disdain about the store’s decision to fire doorman Tom Hargitai. For those of you who don’t know, Holt Renfrew is Canada’s leading luxury fashion retailer, the equivalent of a Neiman Marcus or Barneys New York in the United States. Their Bloor street more...
Facebook has updated their Questions section, integrating it into the Facebook experience and making Q & A social. Whereas previously Questions was a separate section on Facebook, where users could publicly ask questions, now the experience will be more intimate, with a focus on a user’s network of friends. Now Questions will be featured more...
There are several aspects of social media that make it both attractive and useful in the classroom. It can facilitate communication between parents, students, and school officials and it can also help educate students. Because social media tools are still relatively new and not many precedents exist in terms of appropriate conduct for students and teachers more...
LinkedIn Growth: Surpassing 100 Million Members & Growing at one Member per Second
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LinkedIn has announced today that it has reached a pivotal milestone, the world’s largest professional social network surpassed 100 million users! In celebration of the progress, LinkedIn has released an infrographic which visualizes how they reached that number. Growth has been accelerating at a higher pace than before, it took LinkedIn 494 days more...
Although some colleges are not yet looking at their applicants’ social media profiles, an increasing number of colleges are. Some colleges, including Stanford and Rose Hulman, are snubbing the practice of checking out social media properties in their admission processes. But other schools, including Harvard, are looking at high school students’ more...
A new report by eMarketer is stating that the double digit growth of social networks is behind us due to the fact that some age groups have reached a saturation point. Over 90% of online 18-to-24 year-olds are already on social networks, meaning that there’s not much room for usage growth in this demographic. Although there has been some increase more...
