As social media has evolved so has the NBA and All-Star weekend has become a huge social event. Last year, the NBA had 1 million fans in China following them on social media. This year they have 41 million thanks to Jeremy Lin. They also have 200 million fans globally through Twitter and 14 international…
This post is written by John Lewis and he works at PriceCollate. You can checkout the blog of website here. Social media users need to be careful about what they post on Facebook, Twitter and other media-sharing profiles. A growing number of employees are using online resources to screen potential candidates, including Myspace, Facebook and other social…
Have you been wondering if there’s a way to customize your Google+ URL? Wonder no more my friends, your answer is here. There’s a free service called gplus.to that shortens your Google+ URL into a nice, easy to remember link. Plug in your G+ profile ID number on gplus.to and a customized URL will be…
The last election popularized the idea of donating your presence in social media to a candidate. Since then, Causes and other sites have been using this practice to spread the word about various charitable campaigns. To support a particular cause, you simply allow the Facebook application to post a message on your behalf to your personal…
There are a few sites right now you may have heard of, but a couple are pretty new so we’re featuring them this week in social media vocabulary. If you ever wanted a great way to visually collect interests and things on the web you think are awesome, try out one of these sites, they…
Are you ready for some football? Ready or not this year’s Super Bowl could be the most social event yet. It may not be the ritual you’re used to but the social media buzz has gotten louder and louder for the most epic game day in America. Twitter, Facebook and Google+ are taking advantage of social media…
Etiquette is as important on social networks as it is at interviews and fancy dinners. You don’t wear cut-off jeans to formal events or chew with your mouth open at a business dinner, so don’t do the equivalent by forgetting your twitter manners! There are certain things that you can’t get away with on Twitter. Twittequette is an…
If you have been wandering aimlessly around Google Plus wondering what all these oddly named things are, that’s good because today’s social media vocabulary is here to help out. Here are 5 Google Plus related vocab words to get familiar with! Circles: The first thing you will notice when you start with Google+ are the circles. These…
A term web people might use to describe a site is sticky. It sounds a little strange, but it’s actually a huge measure of a website’s success. The stickier the better. The measure of a websites ‘stickiness’ can be found in the page views per visitor; the more pages a person goes to on the site, the…
The number of people who access the web on a smartphone is rapidly increasing. Mobile users want content at their fingertips, that they can access anytime, anywhere. Developing a mobile friendly site means creating a site that’s elastic enough to display nicely on whatever device your end user is viewing it on. Website owners are…