Articles in Social Media

• Custom Google Plus URLs

  Branding is an important activity, for any public entity, whether private or commercial. It allows people to identify and, in a sense, communicate with your brand on a personal…

• The Google Share a Link Experiment

  A new development in the way Google+ users can recommend results on Google’s website was announced yesterday on the G+ network by Google associate product manager Sean Liu. The…

• The Real Value of the Facebook Like

  Since the birth of social media marketing, operators in those channels have looked for measures of success for their campaigns. It can be a difficult for a lot of companies so…

• Business Marketing on Twitter

  Using Twitter as a marketing tool for your company is a strategy that's still getting mixed reviews. Many say that the Twitter user's natural aversion to commercialism on that…

• Twitter Suffers Sudden Outage

  After a sudden, four hour, Twitter service outage yesterday, many deprived Twitterers were left in a froth with everyone asking, what exactly had happened? Twitter's official word…

• A Social Search Engine

  One of the biggest undertakings in recent search engine history is Google's current Social Search option on Google+ that allows people to query posts and content on G+ profiles.…

• Social SEO for Businesses

  With the amount of content exchange happening on social networks these days, it's only natural that many companies are looking to get their products and ideas marketed through…

• Effective Social Media Campaigns

  Social media campaigning as a business concept is still very much in its infancy. And as an infant it characteristically: unpredictable, hard to control, has a limited temper and…

• Twitter Opens Automated Advertising

  Twitter has had their "promoted Tweets" program running for some time now, as part of their effort to turn a profit from the widely used and ever-popular so-called micro-blogging…

• Google Plus Growth

  In the middle of last year, Google began the launch of their social media product, Google+, among some justifiable scepticism. Then late last year, Google made it possible for…

• Google Plus Hits Hundred Million Users

  The question of whether Google+ will be an effective competitor to Facebook's already long established, 800 million strong social network is one that people have been considering…

• Twitter Censorship Debate Continues

  Late last week Twitter announced that they were about to launch functionality that would allow them to censor tweets by blocking them for users in individual countries, ostensibly…