Pinterest released a new page design for profile pages this week – Danielle Leitch of SocialMediaToday discusses the improved functionality and advantages the new design will provide for both “pinners” and businesses alike in her post Pinterest has a New Design. This week also brought the announcement of the integration of social media into Google […]
Does social media affect how you spend money? You betcha. Drew Olanoff of TheNextWeb says that it isn’t whether social services influence how we spend money, but how they affect our habits – and gives readers a closer look at three ways social media is doing this: influence, information, and indiscretion (yes, indiscretion). Lisa Evans […]
This week’s interview in our “Influencers Who Inspire” series is with Mitch Wagner of The CMO Site. Mitch Wagner, Editor-in-Chief of The CMO Site, has worked both sides of the street, as a technology journalist and a marketer and social media strategist. He helped lead development of social media marketing strategy for a business-to-business security […]
Forbes contributor Anthony Kosner breaks down the success of YouTube’s recently Most Popular video KONY 2012, a poignant 30 minute video with over 50 million views that begs the question; can the power of social media do what foreign policy cannot? Kosner’s piece provides 12 Lessons from KONY 2012 from Social Media Power Users including be positive, […]
The first Friday in March marks Employee Appreciation Day and I wanted to be sure to send a small token of appreciation out to my amazing staff. In the PR agency business, it’s not unusual to see a revolving door of employees and I have to say that I am very lucky to never have […]
PerkettPR offers digital production to support our clients’ initiatives and provides creative services from graphic and web design to online video production to support user-engagement campaigns for all social media platforms. PerkettPR is pleased to share some recent examples of client digital production work from the past month as part of a new series showcasing […]
Stephanie Shkolnik takes a look at the components critical to long-term success as you plan your social strategy in How social actually impacts your bottom line via iMediaConnection. Social media amateur aficionado Dr Layla McCay attends five Social Media Week events and brings back Five Social Media Lessons From the Cutting Edge for The Huffington […]
If you are a standard CoTweet user, you have probably heard that on February 15, 2012, ExactTarget will be replacing the free service CoTweet with the premium service SocialEngage – with a free trial for 30 days. To help those of you that may be scrambling for an alternative, we did some leg work for […]
Those who succeed in social media and those having the ability to influence the behavior of others are master storytellers, writes Joshua Leatherman in this SocialMediaToday story An Essential Key to Social Media Influence: Tell Your Story Well. Damian Hagger talks about the growing trend of niche social communities and what that means for marketers in […]
WebProNews writer Drew Bowling shows how social media was used in the workplace this past year in Facebook Accounts For 80% Social Media Traffic World-wide and other fun facts about social media at work. Dr. Trevor Davis provides commentary on the excitement and usefulness of social media in his ZDNet post titled Listen to social […]