Online marketing is a cost-effective way to increase your business and see immediate results. It can be targeted more directly than print advertising, giving you a higher return from your investment. Online marketing can easily be done in-house by a small business, or it can be outsourced to experts. Most businesses have websites. Many of [...]
First you were a friend. Next you were a follower. Then a connection. Now you’re an acquaintance, a close friend and a fan. If you’re lucky (and interesting enough) you’ve been added to lists. Social networks have gotten complicated. Thanks to the explosion of categories and types we have more labels than ever before. Thankfully, our [...]
Facebook has been criticised for social network privacy issues, now it’s the turn of the business social network, LinkedIn. Although not directly a privacy issue, their decision to include names, profile pictures and information in connection with advertising has sparked furious debate. Rather than enabling their users to opt in, it launched with an opt [...]
So, who did first coin the phrase ‘Social Circles’? Techcrunch have just published a post (see Unfriendly: Google Blocking Ex-Employee’s “Social Circles” Book) about ex-Googler, Paul Adams who has had his book ‘Social Circles’ blocked from publication by Google. The same Google who have just struck a deal with the British Library to make even [...]
In a video released earlier today, Google+ Product Manager Christian Oestlien, asks business users to refrain from creating business or brand profiles in Google+ for the moment. He outlines some of the plans the Google+ team are working on and indicates the business version should be rolled out later this year. At about the one [...]
Google have announced today that they are going to start rolling out their ‘Social Search’ initiative and will be available to most over the coming week. Watch this video to get an understanding of how Social Search will work: As with most things to do with Google, it’ll be sensible to not make any significant [...]
