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The phrase “social media” has evolved to become a blanket term for nearly all things digital, encompassing a diverse set of tactics, platforms, uses and benefits. The following 10 S’s of social media should help explain the key ways in which social media is being used (and abused). 1. Sharing Social media is built on [...]
As the “big players” like Facebook, Google and Twitter have begun adopting OAuth, we will be seeing a more integrated web. For those not aware, OAuth allows a user to log into a 3rd party site using credentials from another website. Furthermore it allows the 3rd party site to perform actions on the other site [...]
As companies continue to expand/extend their social footprints, they are increasingly benefiting from both the resulting traffic they are receiving from people sharing content from their websites with others as well as traffic to areas of their website containing user-generated content (UGC) from search engines. I refer to these concepts as Social Referrals and Social [...]