There’s been many articles written about how good, bad and indifferent Google+ is compared with other social media networks like Facebook and Twitter. Personally, I thought that Google+ is just a Facebook clone when I first saw it! But UMPF’s favourite debate is the ongoing It’s Really Popular Vs It’s A Ghost Town one, that’s an interesting […]
3 Things Bloggers Can Learn from the Recent Facebook – Imgur Mishap
I’ll break down the essence of this little PR spectacle for those of you that happened to miss out on it: Matt Jones, a Facebook engineer responsible for catching malicious URLs, accidentally blocked all incoming links arriving from online photo sharing platform imgur.com. After fixing the problem Matt apologized publicly via social sharing platform Reddit, […]
Now You Can Manage Google+ Pages from @HootSuite dashboard
Good news for all HootSuite users, and probably Google+ users as well, now you can manage your Google+ Pages from HootSuite dashboard. Since Google launched their pilot program to allow via third-party apps to access and manage Google+ pages, this wasn’t an option for all HootSuite users before today, it was only for the HootSuite enterprise edition. Now the dream came true for […]
Ask Great Questions to Connect through Social Media
In his book Stop Stealing Dreams, Seth Godin points out that the new economy is based on connections. The Industrial Revolution was all about productivity. Making things more… More units. More efficient. More profit. More viewers. More. More. More. The Connection Revolution, as Godin calls it, is not about productivity but people. It’s not about […]
Another way to use Pinterest
I am a busy guy and I just can’t face building another list of people that I don’t know on yet another social network. But, I do want to get some of the Pinterest traffic! So what do I do? I could bury myself under a rock and stick my fingers in my ears and […]
Hack Your Klout Score, And Get Free Stuff
I just read a post on Mashable.com about how Klout does not really measure influence. I’m now more into local internet marketing and gave up caring about my Klout score a while ago, when I learned how easily the system could be gamed. Once I figured out how to game it I lost interest and […]