Reading the tea leaves for social media in 2013
Welcome to December! It’s the month for looking back at communications trends and lessons from 2012 as well as for an endless supply of articles looking to the future in 2013. While no one really knows...
View ArticleAn emerging community on Instagram
As you make decisions about what social media tools you should use to reach your audience, one of the keys to consider is whether a particular tool has a growing audience or is falling out of vogue....
View ArticleInstagram and Twitter scuffle means your photos display differently
You should be aware that beginning today, your Instagram photos won’t appear in your followers’ Twitter feeds in the same way. The two social media tools are in a battle that results in big changes for...
View ArticleYour photos may not look the same as the originals
After all of the hubbub about Instagram photos no longer appearing in Twitter feeds, I have to note that if you choose to use Flickr as your online photo tool of choice and you share one of your photos...
View ArticleInstagram to users – we hear you, don’t break up with us
The lawyers over at Instagram caused a major ruckus for the users of the popular social media and photo sharing tool yesterday when Instagram released new Terms of Service language that made it appear...
View ArticleA look at what was shared on social media in 2012
We’re in the season of list articles and infographics, but this graph holds some interesting information about what social media users shared the most during 2012. It’s worth a look.
View ArticleAfter a switch to Flickr, bigger photos and fewer filters
Like many other people, I made a switch a few weeks ago to begin using Flickr to share my photos, after using Instagram for most of 2012. Whether this is a good of bad choice for you and your business...
View ArticleDon’t look now, but Google+ is gaining on you
A new report on social media participation in December 2012 carries some interesting and a little surprising news – from the numbers, it looks like Google+ was used more than Twitter and more than...
View ArticleAre your social media accounts safe?
How safe are the passwords for your social media accounts? This question was on many minds late last Friday when Twitter announced that it detected an attack on its tool and that up to 250,000 accounts...
View ArticleTweetDeck to become even less useful on May 7
Twitter has been hard at work over the last few months making TweeDeck less and less useful, so it comes with little surprise this morning that I received a notice that the connection between TweetDeck...
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