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When to Back Off the Social Media Baby Train

May 22, 2013 / Jeana Lee Tahnk / No comments
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We all have those Facebook friends who seem to make a living posting pictures and video clips of their kids

How cute is little Johnny eating a banana?
Here’s Johnny at the playground going down the slide!
Oh, poor Johnny is upset because mommy won’t give him another cookie.

We get it, your kid is cute. But truth is, no one is really interested

SEE ALSO: 20 Things Your Most Annoying Friends Do on Facebook

Useless kid information is one of the many reasons I quit Facebook over a year ago. Of course I care about my friends’ kids and want to see pictures of them, but unbelievable inventions like email and SMS help me access all the updates I want Read more...

More about Social Media, Features, Contributor, Lifestyle, and Family Parenting
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5 Ways to Incorporate Visuals into Your Social Media for More Clicks, Hits, Oohs and Aahs

May 22, 2013 / Tomeeka Farrington / No comments
Did you know that visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text? Content with images attracts 94% more total views on average than content without images, and videos are clicked on 12 times more often than links and text posts combined. So here are five ways to help you incorporate visuals into your social media.
Category: Content, Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, social networks, strategy, Tools & Apps, video, visuals /

What to Do When Social Media Drives You Crazy

May 22, 2013 / TechNewsDaily / No comments
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Is Social Media Anxiety Disorder, known as SMAD, the newest affliction resulting from our love affair with Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites? Researchers have stopped short of actually classifying SMAD as a disorder, but it's no doubt a problem.

Sure, you could quit using your social sites altogether — but then you’d be, well, bored and lonely. Science may someday shed more light on social media stress, but in the meantime, we've gathered the most common problems associated with popular social networks so that you know what to watch out for.

Creative Flop

Are you one of the thousands of women suffering from Mason Jar Envy, the creeping sense of self-loathing that comes from feeling you're just not as crafty as the other women on Pinterest? The “Today” show recently surveyed 7,000 American mothers and found that 42% worry they're not crafty or creative enough. Some stayed up all night pouring through Pinterest photos, unable to stop the negative comparisons. Read more...

More about Health, Social Media, Psychology, Health Fitness, and Work Play
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Google+ Unveils Redesign for Mobile Web

May 22, 2013 / Anita Li / No comments
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Less than a week after Google+ unveiled a redesign for desktop, the social network is also getting overhauled on the mobile web.

In a post on its official G+ page Tuesday, the service said that posts now appear as "cards" in the stream, making them easier to read, +1 and re-share.

What's more, Profiles and Pages now include cover photos and larger "tap targets," the blog post revealed

Changes to the mobile version of Google+ are similar to those made for the desktop. At its Google I/O conference for developers, the search giant rolled out an image-centric design that resembles Pinterest's and Facebook's layouts. Google introduced 41 new features, including a multi-column layout, larger photos and automatic addition of related hashtags to the stream. Read more...

More about Redesign, Google, Google Plus Profiles, Social Media, and Dev Design
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Social Advocacy & Politics: No Jokes for Congress (Especially Not on Twitter)

May 22, 2013 / DrDigipol / No comments
Marcy Kaptur (D-OH9) tweeted a joke from the White House Correspondents Dinner. But then she erased it 8 minutes later. What if more members of Congress could embrace the boldness of a funny tweet, without running away from it as if scared of their own shadow? We might see more real discussions among our elected officials as they work to solve our very real problems.
Category: Content, Engagement, Government 2.0, humor, Marcy Kaptur, members of congress, News, Opinion, Policy & Guidelines, Social Media, twitter /

The Final Countdown: Social Media and the Return of Arrested Development

May 22, 2013 / Michelle C / No comments
All those emails, petitions, fansites, and even banana baskets played a role in bringing back the show by helping Netflix quantify the size of Arrested Development fandom. Netflix has wowed with its marketing campaign, a flurry of tricks (sorry, Gob: illusions) that blur the line between reality and the show.
Category: Advertising, arrested development, Best Practices, branding, Content, Marketing, netflix, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, social networks, Yes /

Why ‘Dots’ Is the Most Scarily Addictive Social Game Yet

May 22, 2013 / Chris Taylor / No comments
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About 12 years ago, I happened to take my Palm Pilot (remember those?) to a friend's house. A friend of a friend asked if she could borrow it. Sure, I said. She proceeded to download a game called Bubblet, then curled up on the couch with it for the next hour

My curiosity was piqued, and soon I, too, was a Bubblet junkie. It was a simple game — you got a screen full of bubbles and double-tapped to pop connected ones of the same color. Once those popped, the others fell down, Tetris-like, to create new strings of bubbles

You could tap away like a maniac at small strings, but eventually you'd learn the strategy of creating longer ones, which scored more. The important thing was that the game kept your average score, which you were constantly trying to improve. Read more...

More about Social Games, Betaworks, Words With Friends, Gaming, and Social Media
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IBM’s Super Computer Watson Enters the Realm of Customer Engagement [VIDEO]

May 21, 2013 / bvellmure / No comments
IBM plans to launch the Watson Engagement Advisor, aimed at helping organizations provide better customer service and product recommendations in real time at scale. The same technology that once outsmarted humans to win Jeopardy and has recently been used to diagnose cancer will now be used to help organizations sense and respond in real time.
Category: Best Practices, IBM super computer, Social Customer, Social Media /

What’s Next for Tumblr?

May 21, 2013 / MarcMeyer / No comments
Tumblr users are passionate and are worried about what will happen to their platform. Is that passion enough to keep their pages safe from being “Yahoo’ed?” If the deal goes down, Tumblr as you and I once knew it, may be done. Though the spin is that Yahoo will not screw it up.
Category: Social Media, social networks, tumblr, Yahoo /

What Would Happen If Every Employee Had Admin Access to the Corporate Social Media Accounts?

May 21, 2013 / sashattuck / No comments
For most small B2C establishments, particularly brick-and-mortar retail and dining, social media presents a challenge in terms of authenticity, timeliness and scale. Casey at the pizza place is able to capture pure moments as they happen and deliver them to his online audience, such as a toddler enjoying a slice while wearing a Superman cape.
Category: facebook, Instagram, Social Customer, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, strategy, twitter /
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