Insights into social platforms, creator tools, trends, algorithms, audience behavior, and the evolving role of social networks online.

The Year Of Video Content: 2012 Top 100 Brands In Social Video

The Year Of Video Content: 2012 Top 100 Brands In Social Video

Even though we're not at the end of 2012 yet, the year-end lists are starting to trickle out. This is the second one I've seen, and it's a good one. Video marketing has always been popular, but it exploded in 2012. I remember reading back in May that there are 72 hours of video uploaded every minute ...
The Secret Online Life Of Teenagers [Infographic]

The Secret Online Life Of Teenagers [Infographic]

The online life can be a treacherous one if you don't apply the proper amount of security. This has long been a debate that will most likely never be completely solved. Each day there are new ways you and your privacy can get into trouble. It's always important to make sure your information is safe ...
Social Stereotypes: Are You What You Share? [Infographic]

Social Stereotypes: Are You What You Share? [Infographic]

I personally think we could debate social media and networking for eons if we so desired. We could go on and on about what network is the best one, the most engaging one, the most popular one, etc. It would never really end. And with the constant stream of new and more efficient clones, it would be ...
How To: Change Your Twitter Profile, Header & Background Images

How To: Change Your Twitter Profile, Header & Background Images

If you use Twitter for personal or professional branding, you probably know the importance of uploading a picture into your Twitter profile. Over the years, we've all learned that unless you are representing a popular brand, it's better to use a headshot than a logo because some people still feel aw ...
Should You Accept That Facebook Friend Request? [Flowchart]

Should You Accept That Facebook Friend Request? [Flowchart]

An occurrence that everyone is familiar with on Facebook is the accumulation of friends. Facebook released the subscribe feature in order for people to be able to keep two different feeds or categories of people. There is one for their real friends, and one for people who just want to lock in and ge ...
Is Facebook Turning Us Into Cyberstalker Drones? [Infographic]

Is Facebook Turning Us Into Cyberstalker Drones? [Infographic]

We are all very aware that social media addiction, cyberstalking, procrastination, time sinks, and blowing off offline friends in favor of social media have been some of the less attractive side effects of Facebook, Twitter and tons of other social networking sites. I wonder if in 20 years from now, ...
Top Social Media Stats Too Impressive To Overlook

Top Social Media Stats Too Impressive To Overlook

There are social media stats presented to us on a daily basis, but many times they are "spiced up" to make the particular social media network in question look better than all the others. They are not exaggerated, they are just focused around the focal points that make some of their more complimenta ...
Social Media Landscape: Top 20 Brands In Social Media [Infographic]

Social Media Landscape: Top 20 Brands In Social Media [Infographic]

Have you ever examined the social media landscape you explore every day? There is a lot we can learn from just paying attention to who is doing what online at any given moment. For example, this weekend I saw an online ad for Amazon. This wasn't an adwords ad, but it was a gorgeous, big ad that was ...
The Future Of Email: Best Practices & Trends [Infographic]

The Future Of Email: Best Practices & Trends [Infographic]

Email has had its share of troubles throughout the years, just like any other communication approach run through the Internet. People always find a way to pollute its awesomeness with spam regardless of all the preventive measures added. Email is one of those inventions that was adopted by a lot of ...
The Mental Effects Of Facebook Addiction [Infographic]

The Mental Effects Of Facebook Addiction [Infographic]

While you are reading this, there is a good chance you are logged into Facebook. Now that Facebook has hit the 1 billionth user milestone, you might start wondering what everyone does on this giant social network. I mean, there are so many people constantly networking, sharing, liking and commenting ...
Your Social Media Presence Could Be Hindering Your Job Search

Your Social Media Presence Could Be Hindering Your Job Search

Like it or not, hiring managers these days are browsing candidates’ social media accounts before making a decision to bring on board a potential employee. According to a recent study by CareerBuilder, 34% of hiring managers reported are seeing negative information that “caused them not to hire a can ...
Using Facebook Science To Get More Engagement [Infographic]

Using Facebook Science To Get More Engagement [Infographic]

If you have been on Facebook for a long time, you know that Facebook has gone through a whole lot of changes since you first signed up. Either you are on Facebook just to connect with everyone you know, or you want to expand the number of people you know by sharing, interacting and commenting. For a ...
Getting Noticed: 6 Ways To Gain Social Media Attention [Infographic]

Getting Noticed: 6 Ways To Gain Social Media Attention [Infographic]

I keep coming back to this topic over and over again. I think it is because I feel it's such an important aspect of social media and networking in general, and we should never stop exploring the possibilities. In today's social networking climate, it's getting harder and harder to get noticed. You c ...
5 Ways To Look Like You’re Social Media Savvy [Chart]

5 Ways To Look Like You’re Social Media Savvy [Chart]

Social media is a dichotomy in the sense that even though it's growing at a crazy fast pace, and there are more people on social media sites now than ever before - along with all the growth comes people who feel lost and like they are fumbling to figure it all out. Where do you fall into it all? Are ...
LinkedIn Guide: How It Works [Infographic]

LinkedIn Guide: How It Works [Infographic]

It's anything but easy to keep up with all the different social networking services available to us. It's starting to become a thick jungle of networking options, and it's sometimes hard to understand the differences between them. The most popular ones are of course usually the most straight forward ...
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