Social Media
Dr Mariann Hardy, social media expert and academic from Durham Business school examines Facebook’s future ahead of Friday’s IPO: Is Facebook a good investment?
There is a history here going back to the first Dot.com bubble in the late 1990s that rightly adds significant concerns about the Facebook valuation, as much as $104.2 billion, for what is perceived as just an ‘online’ company. The market price for Facebook concerns many investors who are worried and/or have a skeptical view that is based only based on a very short-term snap-shot of Facebook’s current position and the future financial coordination of the company as a growing-concern.
Twitter is rolling out a new feature that sends users a weekly digest of the most popular tweets in their network.
News and Apple editor at thenextweb.com, Matthew Panzarino, explained on the site that the new option is being pushed out over the next few weeks; giving people a list of the most popular stories along with the people who shared them. By Red Rocket Media [more…]
Facebook critical in helping brands build momentum in emerging market. Ahead of IPO, new data from Socialbakers reveals that:
One of the UK’s leading trade unions Community: The Union for Life, has chosen award-winning digital agency Redweb to design and build its new user-centric website.
In addition to developing an all-new site aesthetic, the Bournemouth-based agency will be working closely with the union to deliver a comprehensive restructure of its content and information architecture. [more…]
Social networking giant Facebook has started to trial a system of charging users to promote their own posts, reportstelegraph.co.uk. By Red Rocket Media [more…]
It’s become practically mandatory that brands incorporate social media into their business strategy, causing retailers to compete for popularity in stores and on the Internet, too.
Campalyst has provided this infographic, which covers the largest Internet retailers in the U.S., and their presence on the five key social networks: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ and Pinterest.
By David Ashplant, corporate partner at Lester Aldridge ... Pinterest is fast becoming the latest internet phenomenon and growing exponentially. If you’re not already familiar with it, it is a virtual pinboard that allows members to “pin” images and videos they like to their online board. When you click on them they should take you to the website they came from.
The big issue with all this is that reproducing an image taken from the internet is likely to be infringing someone else’s copyright in just the same way it would be if you photocopied it. In the US, there is a view that this falls within fair dealing but that is not thought to be the case in the UK, especially for those in business who might profit from what they are doing.
New site eSeller. They say ...When it comes to eCommerce and multichannel, if you look around your business and see that responsibility for this transformational growth area rests squarely on your shoulders… eSeller is for you! [more…]
A report looking into the demographic of social media users has indicated that a third of young people in Britain are using sites like Twitter every day, thedrum.co.uk reports.By Red Rocket Media
Google’s instant webcasting service, Hangouts On Air, has been made available to all Google+ social network users.
Previously only available to an elite few, Hangouts On Air offers all Google+ users the chance to say what they want, when they want, broadcasting to a wide internet audience, reports techweekeurope.co.uk.
