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Introducing the Video Contest App for Facebook Pages

After the release of our Photo Contest App there have been a lot of requests for a similar app, but centered around Videos…well the wait is over! We are proud to introduce our Video Contest App available now to make your Fan Page really shine. This powerful new app enables Fan Page admins to quickly [...]

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Social Media Ain’t Just for People Anymore: A Case Study of Animal Rescue

Facebook has been a longtime marketing darling, but we usually frame it in the context of consumable goods such as our favorite snacks and snazzy sneakers. One sector that’s really taken advantage of Facebook’s power are non-profits, and specifically animal rescues. The platform’s viral nature and the image-centric posts create an ideal environment to spread [...]

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Graph Search is Coming – Are Your Privacy Settings Ready?

Graph Search is on its way to a wide rollout, supplanting the very limited beta version that some of us (myself included; I feel quite special) have enjoyed for a few weeks now. It’s easier to use, which means that it’s potentially easier for people to access any user’s public information. Sure, it’s cool to [...]

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Crowdsourcing…Gone Awry

Crowdsourcing has become commonplace on the internet; it is how the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish goals that were once the responsibility only a few [Freebase]. People use crowdsourcing to gain insight into products, generate interest and ultimately have the crowds do their work for them. As the dust began to [...]

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The Future of Intervention: Social Addiction

Humans are social creatures. We like to interact with one another. The social phenomenon of the last decade has changed – and some might say improved – the ways in which people interact. Connection is something people crave, and social media and mobile foster that connection. We can instantaneously connect with people we know, and [...]

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Facebook gets into the App game with Parse

Facebook announced late last Thursday that they have entered into an agreement to buy mobile tool kit developer Parse. This is a bold move for the ‘book because they are now offering paid tools for businesses to create their own native iOS and Android apps. Obviously this gives Facebook more of an upstream look at [...]

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Are Twitter Accounts Safe? AP’s Wasn’t

In the last week we have seen the incredible impact that Twitter has on the delivery of news and current events. With the bombings in Boston, Twitter was the quickest way to hear new details of the attacks, both true and otherwise. With live videos, photos, and first-hand accounts of the tragedy, people near and [...]

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2013 NFL Draft Social Media Predictions

We see these predictions for every major event, so with an office full of sports fans we couldn’t help but share this nifty infographic with the draft’s predictions. Will they be right?  Who knows, but thanks to Mashable for posting it first and iProspect for crunching the numbers.

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Forbidden Facebooking

We all do it – sneak a quick one when we think no one’s looking. Thanks to mobile, we can access it just about anywhere. I’m talking about social media – come on! A quick study by CreditDonkey (yes, that is the company’s name) found that mobile users are accessing Facebook and Twitter in places [...]

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QR Codes are Dead

image via: alexcarantza QR codes? The fact that brands and businesses continue to push this crappy technology on consumers is beyond belief at this point. Think of the experience from a user’s perspective for a minute. To activate a QR code based promotion, a user must: Pull out smart phone, look for QR code reader [...]

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