You have to give the folks over at Google credit. They might have been slow out of the blocks launching their social media site Google+, but they’re doing everything they can to make sure it takes off now – and not everyone is pleased about it. On Thursday Google CEO Larry Page laid out his [...] Read more »
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Google being crafty to push Google Plus
Categories: Web 2.0 - Tags: facebook, google, Google Docs, Google plus, search engine, social media, web 2.0, web search
Google+ ‘Circles’ its killer new feature?
Aside from a cleaner interface with no games and ads, the differences between Facebook and Google+ are not all that significant. Except for Google’s ‘circles’. Google+ is set up so that when you add ‘friends’ you also assign them to one or more ‘circles’. That means you can categorize people into friends, family, colleagues, people [...] Read more »
Categories: Web 2.0 - Tags: facebook, google, Google plus, social media
Just like everywhere else in PR, content is king on Twitter.
In just a few days on July 15, Twitter will turn five. It seems hard to imagine a world without the micro-blogging behemoth, and it is now safe to say that Twitter is mainstream, established – and here to stay. Surprisingly, even after five years and now with 200 million tweets a day, it seems [...] Read more »
Categories: Web 2.0 - Tags: best practise, engage, social media, social media statistics, social media strategy, twitter, twitter statistics
Is social media right for marketing your small or medium sized business?
Image by Matt Hamm. Tips for social media marketing, and the many different ways social media can be used to promote small / midsized businesses (SMBs), can be found in almost endless numbers on an incredibly wide variety of websites. But there’s one crucial tip most small businesses won’t see – and that they should [...] Read more »
Blogging your way to improved sales: The top 10 tips for starting a small business blog
Small business owners have asked me many times over the years about how blogging might help their company. They’ve heard about the success of companies like Dell and Walt Disney and they wonder if there is some way blogs could have the same kind of impacts on their small or medium sized businesses. The improved client relationships [...] Read more »
Categories: Communications and PR, Web 2.0 - Tags: blogs, increase sales, small business blogging, social media, strategic blog, web 2.0
