If you haven’t heard of Google+ (yes, that’s the official name, not Google Plus), you will start hearing a lot more about it in the coming weeks. It launched yesterday, and I was lucky
enough to be one of the few in the sandbox (“Field Trial”) at this point! I’m not going to go into all the details of what it includes, as you can read about it on Google’s blog. But, essentially, it aims to take real life interactions to the web, more in the manner in which we interact in real life. It’s made up of 4 parts: Read the rest of this entry »
This week, I attended one of the best webinars I’ve attended in a long time… “60 Landing Pages in 60 Minutes” by Billy MacDonald and Mark Kilens at HubSpot. The webinar was fast paced, and provided a lot of GREAT info, by live reviewing and critiquing 60 landing pages. Below are my tweets of the tips I picked up during the webinar. Read the rest of this entry »
There are still many people out there who believe Facebook is just for kids. Hopefully this infographic will show you otherwise. Here are a few of my favorite statistics:
- 1 in every 13 people on EARTH are active Facebook users
- The 35+ age demographic represents over 30% of Facebook users
- 71% of US Internet users are on Facebook
Via: Online Schools
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There’s a new trend on Twitter where people create a “news daily” on a site called paper.li. I’m not a fan of them, but was really curious about what others thought, so asked people’s thought on Twitter this week, and even ran a poll. First, here’s a bit about Paper.li and how it works…
Essentially, paper.li automatically creates a newspaper for you on a daily basis from content that comes through your twitter stream. They either create it based on the links in the Twitter stream of the “curator” (person creating the newspaper) and the people they’re following, from a hashtag, or from a particular list. Then it sends a tweet something like this.
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When was the last time your company’s customer service department made a “random act of kindnesss?” Well, for Constant Contact, it was just the other day, and I was the recipient of their generosity. Here’s what happened…
On Tuesday evening, I got a direct message (a private message) on Twitter from Constant Contact saying:
“Could you DM me a good number to reach you at? I’d like to give you a call about your account. :) – Marisa”
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Have you heard of the new Fox show Lone Star? I had seen one commercial for it, but it really caught my eye, when I received an email a couple of weeks ago from Klout.
Facebook launched a MAJOR new feature on their iPhone app yesterday, called “Places.” It’s a location based service (“LBS”) where you “check in” to locations, letting your friends know where you are. If you use Foursquare, Gowalla or BrightKite, you are very familiar with these types of apps. Or, if you have friends who cross-post their Foursquare updates to Facebook and Twitter, you may also know what they are (and may not have a positive opinion of them!).
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Now that Tweetdeck is integrating more social networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Buzz, Foursquare, MySpace), I’m guessing there will be a name change soon. Ideas? Take this poll!
Click here for the results so far.
If you haven’t heard, the past few weeks have not been good for Facebook. They’ve made a number of changes in how the privacy settings work, and have not been completely clear in explaining the changes. They’re not respecting people’s privacy. “Facebook changed the rules and this information was unexpectedly shared with perfect strangers. That is, simply stated, a profound invasion of privacy.” (Gizmodo, 5/10/10). Rather than reshashing all of the issues, I’ll direct you to a few articles:
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You may have noticed that Facebook made a change this week from calling the action of joining a Facebook page “Fan” to “Like.” What does this mean, really? Nothing! It’s really just a name change. Instead of clicking “Become a Fan”, you now click “Like.” In Facebook’s words, “We believe this change offers you a more light-weight and standard way to connect with people, things and topics in which you are interested.” (from their FAQ). As an example, here’s how it looks:
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