Social Media Blog Posts

Verified Facebook Accounts

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

Facebook, Internet, Social Media

Facebook has finally begun allowing some users to verify their accounts.

Verified Facebook accounts won’t allow the user to display a badge to prove that the account is theirs. They will be allowed to display a nickname! I’m sure Facebook see this as a pretty big step considering users are required to use their real name (if a Cumbrian girl I know really has the middle name ‘Woo Woo’ then fair play to her). (more…)

Backplane – Bigger than Facebook?

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Engagement, Facebook, Internet, Social Media

Backplane has rightly already received a lot of attention and with the financial backing of Eric Schmidt and Lady GooGoo (or whatever she calls herself), I’m sure it’s going to become more and more popular. (more…)

Lady Gaga Launches Social Network

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Engagement, Social Media

Whilst I am not a fan of Lady Gaga, I still seem to hear about her every day. She’s either wearing a telephone as a hat or a dress made of meat, and it seems whatever she is doing, she is always trying to shock and push the boundaries of society! (more…)

Pinterest: Social Media’s Rising Star

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Engagement, Social Media

Like it, share it, now pin it.

About nine months ago, one of my friends told me about ‘Pinterest’ – a new visual social book marking site that lets you collect, share and organise the images you like on the web. Being a graphic designer, Pinterest looked like the perfect solution to my overfilling, unorganised ‘inspiration’ folder on my desktop – so I signed up and was instantly hooked, preaching about Pinterest to all my friends and colleagues. (more…)

Identifying Key Relationships and Cultivating Them = Linking Success

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Link Building, Online Marketing, Online PR, Social Media

In my last post I talked about how building key relationships with authoritative authors in your niche could prove to be beneficial to your linking campaigns, not only improving your chances of long term linking prospects through different outlets but also how placing more importance on who is linking to you than which site or page is linking to you, can empower your link with more trust.

With this in mind the next step would be to identify those authors and start making relationships. So . . . (more…)