Following on from our previous article on how to set-up and manage your Facebook Page, we now go into more detail on enhancing your businesses Facebook Page. Now it’s more important than ever to have a Facebook account representing your business. There are over 800 million users worldwide, with the average user logging in at…
In our social media age every business, however big or small, needs to have some kind of social standing. Sometimes people are daunted by social media – branding it to be ‘a social thing for the youth generation’, well, it’s not. There are over 800 million people logging in to Facebook, which means it’s…
Facebook is making the new timeline profiles mandatory and you will have a week to add or hide features and posts. Last year, we saw the social network roll out the new profile interface but it wasn’t until this week’s blog post that they announced the timeline will become mandatory for all users. When your…
President, Barak Obama, is inviting people to use ‘Hangouts’ on Google+ for a 45 minute chat on Monday (30th January). The US President, who already uses Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, will be answering questions via the Google+ video feature – Hangouts.
How many times have you gone on to your Facebook or Twitter to ask friends and followers to recommend a good restaurant or film to see that evening? Well, Google is endorsing this type of social search with their introduction of ‘ask on Google+’ feature. This update is slowly being rolled out and if you…
Yesterday, on the company’s official blog, Google engineer Amit Singhal expressed a vision of “transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships.” The transformation to which he is referring appeared in the form of a major update entitled “Search, Plus Your World”. Rolled out to a limited…
As an early Christmas present to Google plus (+) users Google is making some minor changes to improve the experience of Google plus+ for both businesses and general users. Whilst none of these new additions are ground breaking they seem like obvious improvements on the social platform still in its infant stage. The big social…
Facebook has launched a subscribe button plugin for websites so you can now see updates from site contributors on your news feed. This new feature is similar to Twitter’s ‘follow’ button. So, instead of just giving your site visitors the option to ‘like’ or ‘recommend’ a post you can now install the plugin to allow…
As you may have noticed, Twitter have started rolling out a new design of the user interface this morning (9th December). As this is a staggered roll-out, not everyone’s account features the new design – but as I’m one of the lucky ones I thought I’d give you a quick look at the new design….
What’s New This Week? This week Facebook are revamping their Insights tool for business pages hopefully increasing its value to the marketing world. Facebook is planning to introduce these new metrics in the coming weeks, and on December 15th, the old version of Facebook Insights will be removed from the site. Important Metrics While we’ve…