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As soon as the Summer hits, we are inundated with hardware store commercials telling us we need to get a ceiling fan. With images of people sweating into puddles and children sitting limply in front of the swamp cooler, we’re led to believe that only ceiling fans will save us from the searing summer ...

A Look At The Average Brand’s Facebook Page Performance [Infographic]

Everyone knows Facebook is the most popular social networking site, and if you are like most marketers, you check your Facebook analytics often. One of the keys to success is not comparing ourselves to others. We've all heard people say to "swim in your own lane." However, from time to time it's nic ...

Loneliness: Most Common Ailment In Our Tech & Social Media World

There is definitely a connection between social media and loneliness. I've experienced it myself. Over the past year, I've cut back on my social media use, but before that, I was definitely a Twitter addict. I had accumulated over 100,000 Twitter followers, yet it was a very lonely time in my life. ...

Technology

The Ultimate Journey Around America For Apple Fans [Infographic]

There's no doubt Apple has struggled since Steve Jobs passed away. Whether it's wildly fluctuating stock, a loss in smartphone market share or even the ability to maintain their reputation for being innovative, Apple has been scrambling to make up ground. An Apple fan is a loyal fan though, and thos ...

7 Types Of Social Media Fans And Followers Of Brands [Infographic]

These days, most brands use social media to raise brand awareness and build a loyal following of customers and potential customers. If you are a brand, you have probably noticed it is a very diverse group of people who follow you. I've even noticed it on our Bit Rebels fan page. You can see it in th ...

Making More Friends On Facebook As A Business [Infographic]

Users seem to spend less time on Facebook nowadays as mentioned in Diana's article yesterday about Facebook's decline. The reasons could of course be many, but companies around the world are still scrambling to make an impact with their Facebook accounts. Some are under the perception that more frie ...

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 ...

Social Media Strategy: Best Ways To Engage Your Fans [Infographic]

When it comes to engaging fans on facebook, not many brands do it better than Coca-Cola. As of the time I'm writing this, they have over 52 million fans, and if you look at the Coca-Cola facebook page, you'll see it's full of fun posts and fan engagement. The team of people who set up their social m ...

5 Crucial Facebook Practices That Helped Coca-Cola Reach 50M Fans

If you are a company or a brand, being on Facebook can sometimes seem daunting since your immediate thought was probably that you would do really well there. After all, you have a kick ass idea, at least according to you and your partners. However, the reality is entirely different. In order to real ...

Entertainment

Gotye’s Own Montage Of Somebody That I Used To Know [Video]

Sometimes a song reaches cult status, and people start to make their own covers and parodies of it. That usually happens when a song becomes successful, but that statement isn't even enough when you think about the success that Gotye has experienced with his hit song "Somebody That I Used To Know." ...

Design

A World Map Created From Recycled Computer Parts

Just last month, I wrote an article about the city of Helsinki created from recycled motherboards. It was an extraordinary piece of art, and the shape of the city was almost immediately recognizable when you looked at the picture of the whole thing. If you want to see it for yourself, you can go to ...

Most Popular Design Blogs By Social Media Following [Infographic]

Many of our friends on Twitter have design blogs, and frankly, that was the initial way we got connected. In fact, I started using Twitter because I thought that some of these people had some curious content that I constantly wanted to check out. The first ones I started following were @imjustcreati ...

Entertainment

How To: Prank Justin Bieber Fans Reeeeeeal Good

I don't know why there are so many Justin Bieber haters on Twitter. How can anyone bag on a kid who has accomplished so much in his short life? Regardless, people are still relentless, and for some reason, they have really strong opinions about him. They either love him or hate him. One thing is ...

Geek Lady Gaga Visits Google And Twitter