The problem, you would imagine, with social media sites is that if they are frequented and constructed by visitors such as you and I, the content would become corrupted. After all, we all have our own biases and interests. One man’s meat is another man’s poison, and, above all that, there are people that are [...]
There are new types of social media available. Internet forums and message boards, which were always popular, are now more interactive than ever. There are ways in which people can not only upload their content but also share links to their own microblogging pages or Facebook property. Blogs have a variety of user-selected modifications and [...]
They may have the might of the dollar but small businesses outclass Fortune 500 ones in the SEO stakes. So says Conductor. They analysed several million paid keywords and compared them to their natural search visibility. The results? A bit better – but still only 25% appear in the top 50 results. Half of them [...]
Image via CrunchBase It appears that many (?most) journalists use social media to research their stories. This includes Twitter and Facebook according to The Guardian. This clearly starts to put things into perspective and, at last, helps to drive home the notion that these platforms are more than just a frippery designed to deviate us [...]
Do you have a policy in the workplace on the use of social media? More than two thirds of New Zealand companies don’t. Globally that’s 85%. It appears that the use of social media is accepted for work and business but the distinction between the two are hazy. The challenge, it seems, is to channel [...]