Check out the new Facebook privacy controls that are being rolled out now – see the above screen grab. More
New Facebook privacy controls are being rolled out
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Instagram performs a U-turn and will re-word Terms and Conditions
In what has to be a damage control exercise, Kevin Systrom co-founder of Instagram has admitted they made a mistake and promised to re-word their terms and conditions text. On the Instagram company blog he posted: More
New Myspace – What’s it got and can it work?
There’s a completely new re-born and re-invented New Myspace in the wings. What’s it about? For sure, there are lots of things to drool over and a potential show-stopper or two. More
One to watch: Google Announces Google+ Communities and Photos
Google are rolling out a new Communities feature on Google+ today. More
Don’t waste your time cutting and pasting Facebook privacy/copyright statements
Today Facebook issued an email about the next steps in its Global Site Governance review, and there’s been a resurgence of the ‘protect your privacy by pasting this message’ hoax.
To cut to the chase, if you are sent a message about cutting and pasting a Facebook copyright or privacy statement, don’t do it and don’t share it. It’s totally irrelevant. If you want to know more about this, read on. More
Do you want to drive more traffic to your website? Would you like to create content that people want to read?
This interview with Michael Hyatt provides some of the secrets of attention-grabbing blog posts that generate traffic.
Social media Examiner – Blogging Success: How to Create Content People Love
Here’s a link to a simple way to stop your friends from embarrassing you on Facebook. I’ll bite my tongue and I won’t say ‘unfriend them’ or send them a link to my post on the privacy hoax post.
This won’t protect you from their silly comments etc. but it does keep unexpected pictures and comments out of your timeline.
Here’s A Simple Way To Stop Your Friends From Embarrassing You On Facebook
I missed a viral marketing opportunity
In the last couple of days there’s been a Facebook post circulating telling people to re-post the message to protect their privacy. Before we go any further, it’s a hoax. More
At last Pintrest is enabling business accounts. There’s a great article on Hubspot which takes you through the steps of changing over a personal account to a business account. Now get pinning!
Send Tweets via email
Twitter has just announced (Thursday November 15) that it is rolling out a new facility to enable you to send tweets directly to email addresses. More
I’d really like to rant about Facebook…
I’ll try to be civil. Facebook’s in flux, and the best we can do is sit back and enjoy the ride.
Their latest trick is to pick a page your page is following and spam your page’s feed with every single thing that page likes. More
Facebook makes major changes to who sees your page’s posts
The article (link below) asserts that the latest Facebook changes implemented on September 20 are for the good. I’ve heard nothing but howls of dismay from page owners whose pages no longer get seen by a large number of their followers. So I disagree with the article’s basic premise and this is why: More
Researching another post I came across this little gem from September 9. The article suggests that posts to Facebook via third party apps can reduce their reach by up to 88%. Originally data from the use of Hootsuite and Tweetdeck were used as examples, but the data was later withdrawn. There’s been no follow up to explain why.
If you use a third party App, you might like to run a little experiment or two of your own to check the efficacy of your campaigns.
Facebook Fail: Posting via Other Apps Can Cut Likes & Comments by 88% [STUDY]
Facebook’s fourth quarter earnings will be interesting
Facebook’s fourth quarter’s earnings will be even more interesting than this past quarters results due to be disclosed today. Will the recent changes to how people see the Facebook Pages they follow have an impact on the next quarter’s earnings? More
Facebook has decreased the reach of pages
Facebook has decreased the reach of pages. We’ve been monitoring this for the past couple of weeks, and there’s been a definite reduction in organic reach and virality of new posts on Facebook pages. More