Insights into social platforms, creator tools, trends, algorithms, audience behavior, and the evolving role of social networks online.
Transparency vs. Anonymity: The Rules Of The Online World
Networking in today's online climate can not only be a way to express yourself with the utmost transparency, but it can also lead to some rather unwanted side effects. People with the intention of causing you harm can twist and revert your accountability using tools that will have anyone on their kn ...
Facebook Faces: What 100,000 Profile Pictures Looks Like
I must admit, for a couple of years, I wasn't much of a Facebook user. I didn't even have an account with that giant social networking service. As embarrassing as that actually is, I think I am now becoming addicted to the thing just like almost everyone else who uses it. With their 650 million user ...
Twitter’s 30 Most Eligible Bachelors
We always hear about couples meeting on Facebook. Apparently Facebook is a very handy dating tool, and it seems like every week I read about how that site is either reuniting past lovers, breaking up marriages or nurturing new relationships. According to Chadwick Martin Bailey, a market research fir ...
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The Life Of A Facebook Photo [Infographic]
According to Pixable, the photo chaos continues to grow. There are over six billion photos uploaded to Facebook each month. That number is staggering to me, and I really can't even wrap my brain around it. Pixable, who has over 800,000 members, decided to celebrate this online phenomenon (or obsessi ...
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The Complete Google+ Cheatsheet [Infographic]
We are just getting warmed up with Google+, and some people claim to master it already. Well, I honestly think that is a little bit too soon to announce to the world since the service hasn't been up very long, and things are still being implemented, changed and refined. Personally, I haven't gotten ...
Living A Life On Facebook: The Path Of Online Dating
Just as we are all in the midst of discussing the new giant Google+'s amazing march towards becoming one of the larges social networking services, there is something that caught at least my eyes. At first I didn't think much about it, but as I started watching, it brought a whole new level of realit ...
The Man Without A Facebook: A Thought-Provoking Spoof
Do you know anyone who is over the age of 16 and under the age of 100 who isn't on Facebook? Do you ever feel like a genius for being able to write with a pen on a piece of paper? Do you ever feel like a night out isn't worth having if you can't post pictures from it on Facebook? If you answered yes ...
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If Social Media Was A High School Yearbook [Infographic]
I'm not a ranter. It takes skill to rant effectively in a blog post. My friend @ShellyKramer is a master ranter, and I read her blog V3 Integrated Marketing often. @RedheadWriting is also a skilled ranter in her weekly Bitch Slap posts. I admire their writing, but that style is hard for me to pull o ...
Facebook vs. Google+: The Rise Of A Social Networking Giant
Once again, we'll visit the giants to see what is going on. It doesn't seem appropriate to start talking about Google+ as if it just started, even though it was opened up for everyone just a couple of weeks ago. And after they recently announced they had reached 20+ million users, it doesn't seem li ...
![Why Using Social Media In Your Marketing Is Crucial [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Social-Media-Marketing-Campaign-Infographic-1-optimized.png "Why Using Social Media In Your Marketing Is Crucial [Infographic]")
Why Using Social Media In Your Marketing Is Crucial [Infographic]
What some companies are reluctant to realize is that it's absolutely crucial to use social media in your marketing if your product or service is aligned with anything that can be advertised or shared on the Internet. For example, if your company is a mining operation corporation then social media mi ...
VIZoSPHERE: Visualize Twitter Connections By Topic Influence
In the beginning, Twitter was a way to send each other small bursts of messages in 140 characters or less. It has since evolved into a whole ecosystem of intended uses where sharing information is as important as announcing your next marathon in front of the telly. Some people seem to think Twitter ...
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A Hierarchy Of Social Communication: Know Your Tools [Infographic]
In a social media climate where new services are continuously poking at our attention, we need to know more than ever what it is we're trying to achieve. If it is just to communicate, then there are several ways to do that, and to get the result you want. However, if you're looking at it from a busi ...
The ONE Reason To Be On Google+!
Yes, I am on it! I was pleasantly surprised to be contacted by @Iconic88 on Twitter through Empire Avenue that he had an invite for the Google+ beta if I was interested. I happily said that I was, and I started my adventures within the Google social network. However, I fell short due to time restrai ...
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The Importance Of Play During Working Hours [Infographic]
Most companies today have fundamentally missed the fact that engaging their employees in play and things that are fun is key to a healthy and growing corporation. I have seen so many companies get so far up into their own agenda that they really just... well, function. Employees complain when they g ...
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LinkedIn Interaction Mapped & Presented [Infographic]
I am one of those people who signs up for everything new so I can look through it, assess it, and then decide whether it is something that I want to spend any considerable time crunking around in. Sometimes, as we all know, we just don't have time to deal with more social media or networking sites, ...