As we all know by now Twitter is a micro-blogging service allow people to throw thoughts, statements and headlines with links in out at the twitter world for people who follow them to look read. Those who read can then decide to get on with their life, reply to the sender or retweet to everyone [...]
Archive for the ‘Social-and-viral’ Category
Google Plus is not as good for publishers as Twitter
Posted: July 25, 2011 by captaininbox in GooglePlus, Social-and-viralBlogging and online publishing has revolutionised and in some ways saved by social media, especially twitter. Publishers and some bloggers make their money from advertising on their site. Driving traffic to the site and getting those ad images loaded, is to some extent all that matters. Maintaing the regular traffic is what becomes your lifeblood. [...]
Re-sharing a Google Plus post is not spammy
Posted: July 25, 2011 by captaininbox in GooglePlus, Social-and-viralThis was on the back of a rather well commented post on Google Plus but as per the nature of Google Plus’s interface, I can’t find it hours after commenting on it unless I trawl through my notifications – but that’s for another day I’ve seen a few posts of people saying that they don’t [...]
How does it work? Google plus is Google’s latest endeavour into Social Media. But unlike Buzz and whatever Wave was about, this one’s been embraced with open arms by the early adopters of the online community. Essentially Google Plus is a new online community, not unlike Facebook & twitter where you can share your thoughts, [...]
A Google plus and social media reflection
Posted: July 13, 2011 by captaininbox in GooglePlus, Social-and-viral, Total StrategyJust a little personal reflection on the content in social media nowadays… What Google seem to have done, is allow people to choose who to throw their content at (like Facebook), rather than just everyone all the time (like Twitter), then allow the recipients to categorise a person or brand depending on their feeling of [...]
Is Facebook Messaging spam-bot heaven
Posted: March 8, 2011 by captaininbox in Best Practice Strategy, Email Marketing, Social-and-viral, Total StrategyI’ve just found a nicely put together article called “Facebook Messaging: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” By Joseph C Lawrence 03.08.11 for Memeburn. It very nicely puts together lots of what I have already written out Facebook Messaging as it rolls out. Joseph also talks a bit more about the SMS aspect of [...]
