8 Data-Based Tips for Optimizing Your Content on Pinterest and Instagram

Social scientist Dan Zarrella is at it again — this time with hard data to help drive your engagement on Pinterest and Instagram: 8 Data-Based Tips for Optimizing Your Content on Pinterest and Instagram.

How To Run a Social Media Contest and the Top Tools to Use

Contests are one of the best and easiest ways to promote a business/website/product/event etc. Here a quick guide to how to hold a contest using social media! People love contests – it almost doesn’t matter what the prize is, just so long as there is one to win! However, many  businesses don’t consider this simple [...]

Too Much Social Media? Overuse Can Damage Romantic Relationships

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The urges we feel to check our social media are strong. Apparently from this study the urge to check Facebook can be more powerful, then sex, drugs or alcohol. That says an awful lot. So it’s probably best that you understand what the psychological ramifications could be of being to heavily invested in social media, [...]

Storybox Will Be Hotter Than Pinterest Because You Can Create A Visual Story

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Today I created my first Storybox, and well, it felt pretty cool. Just about everyone in the free world and online by now must be aware of the hot trend for visual apps, sites and platforms. In just a relatively very short period of time Pinterest, the site where you share images from anywhere around [...]

Facebook Has Become A Utility And Some Kids Just Dont’ Think It’s Cool Anymore

Is Facebook a utility? Well certainly not in the conventional sense of the word, but in the 21st century new era of technology and the web, the answer is a resounding yes. This article speaks to the very essence of why it has become a utility, and why teens are starting to think Facebook is [...]

Tweeting Teens Help Propel Pheed To No. 1 Social App

  It only launched three months ago, but already social hub Pheed has proved a big hit. Such a hit, in fact, that it is now the top social app in the App Store, according to Forbes. And the market which drove it to the top spot? Teenagers. A few well-connected teens with popular Twitter [...]

6 Tips on How to Use Twitter’s New Vine Video App for Marketing

Twitter is underwhelming at 140 characters. Any sane person would say “What do you do with that?”6 Tips on How to Use Twitter’s New Vine Video App for Marketing Why limit yourself to so few words when there is a dictionary and an encyclopedia available and limitless communication at your disposal. Its brevity is both [...]

Filters! The New iPhone App From Formatt-Hitech

  Filters! is an Upgraded Camera for iOS Nearly all other photo apps today are not cameras but merely post-capture image processors, meaning you’re limited to using the iPhone camera app to make your photograph, and altering it later to varying degrees. Essentially most photo apps are not cameras. Filters! is a truly upgraded camera [...]

Instagram – Instawhat?

Since its launch in 2010, Instagram’s playful exterior and creative photo editing tools have attracted an estimated 50 million users. Although a relatively new social media phenomenon, it was still sold in April for a whopping $1 billion dollars, to the ‘don’ of social networking…Facebook. First things first, you may be curious as to why the biggest [...]

13 Ways For Brands to Use Vine for Social Media Marketing

With the release of Twitter’s new video service, Vine, brands should take note of what could be the next viral medium. It’s posed to try to break into social video the way Instagram revolutionized mobile photo sharing. With six second videos that can be shared through the Vine app, Twitter or Facebook, creative minds have [...]

Rewind.me is ‘Klout for the real world

  SAN FRANCISCO — Rewind.me hopes to do for social media what the DVR did for TV viewing. The permission-based app collects data from Foursquare, Facebook, Instagram and others and organizes it to illustrate a consumer’s personal timeline, down to the minute. Version 1.3 went live on iPhone last week. In short, it is a [...]

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram And The Geosocial Universe

Social media went mobile in 2012 – almost half of all U.S. social media users now access platforms such as Twitter and Facebook via their phones – and social networking sites that have been unable to capitalize and build upon this shift have suffered. Indeed, yesterday Twitter revealed data that suggested that its mobile users [...]