Twitter is rolling out a great new feature called "Who to Follow" that offers users personalized recommendations for people to follow on the microblogging service. If you're one of the Twitter users selected early for the roll out (like me!), you'll find the new feature on the top right of your homepage at Twitter.com (when you're logged into an account). Twitter introduced the new "Who to Follow" feature in a blog post yesterday: The algorithms in this feature, … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2010
Facebook Stories & Statistics: A Huge Impact
July 17, 2010 by
I am still in awe of the latest Facebook statistics: More than 141 million unique visitors in the United States in June 2010. More than 500 million users worldwide. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest country in the world. 50 percent of mobile Internet traffic in the United Kingdom is on Facebook. Facebook tops Google for weekly U.S. Internet traffic. If those statistics and my July 2010 video clip of the month, Social Media … [Read more...]
‘Special Sauce’ for Online Contest Success
July 15, 2010 by
The special recipe networked nonprofits use to win online contests was revealed in a video the Case Foundation posted on its website last week. The video features Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, authors of The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Changet, with research on the successful social media strategies of contest winners. It also features Scott Beale from the Atlas Service Corps, a nonprofit which has won five online competitions and … [Read more...]
Video Clip of the Month: Social Media Revolution 2
July 2, 2010 by
My July 2010 video clip of the month is a recently updated video by Erik Qualman, author of the Socialnomics – Social Media Blog, demonstrating social media’s explosive growth in recent years. The video is a follow-up piece to his original social media revolution video from last summer. While some of the information is similar to last year’s version, Qualman has updated the data and included new figures for the first time. A few of the highlights include: If … [Read more...]
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