Share ThisMonth in Numbers – April 2012
April was positively raining interesting internet stats – check them out in our Month In Numbers roundup.
Social media roundup: April 2012
Similar to the weather in much of the UK, there’s been a veritable downpour in the world of social media news recently. Except in Scotland, where it’s been overcast and breezy. I don’t know what that means in relation to social media, but here we go anyways:
facebook gets hipster and buys Instagram
social media tools awesomeness
tumblring down
oh jesus more pinterest
google+ share button
measure success
Social media roundup: March & Easter
This Easter social media roundup is eggactly what you need to catch up on the social media news and tips from the last month-and-a-bit. See what I did there? I used the word egg. Easter. Egg.
Actually quite a lot has happened over March and the Easter period so prepare to be metaphorically headbutted in the face by a stream of pure information:
google speccy four eyes
google plus redesigns / copies
free-ish social media tools
pinterest: waste of time?
facebook searches, lists and leaves
tweetdeck better
Facebook’s “objectives” targeting: what it means for us
Facebook is testing a new targeting option to reach users ‘more likely’ to complete a certain action. In essence, it allows advertisers to target conversions, rather than users. But these actions are only a measurement of success, and shouldn’t be confused with the actual purpose of the campaign.
Facebook timeline for business pages: 9 things you need to do by 30 March
The new Facebook timeline is upon us, and if you have a business page you’ll need to ensure your presence is updated to reflect the changes occurring on 30 March. So what is the timeline, and what’s changing?
Social media roundup: February 2012
This roundup post is so jammed full of social media sweetness they’ve actually had to increase the length of February this year so you can fit it all in. You say it’s an additional day accumulated due to the astronomical calendar not quite fitting in with Gregorian calendar? Nonsense!
Pinterest eats the world
Twitter for brands
Facebook now made of shares
National twotto!
Google+: What you should know
Linked to Bing
Gi’s a job
Facebook ads downfall: more ads and shorter ads
Facebook is going to shorten their ads so they can fit more in. Either this will give users a greater choice of ads and drive up clicks, revenue and general goodness for all (users, advertisers and Facebook) or the current good advertisers will have their ads lost in a blanket of poor ads and users will ignore the wall of ads completely.
Social media roundup: January 2012
A new year, a new load of social media news you probably missed. You may have still been drunk from New Year’s. That’s fine, but you shouldn’t be drunk now. Put the gin down.
social media and search works – let’s sack people
Google ‘warps’ search with plus Your World
Twitter changes things…
Facebook changes things…
only 17% of your fans see your posts
measurement and monitoring FBI style
QR codes: big ol’ overview
Twitter and Facebook: pub chatter or controlled press?
The Leveson inquiry into press standards couldn’t be credible if it didn’t begin to look into the implications of social networks upon the press and privacy landscape.
However Leveson has also admitted that he sees Facebook and Twitter as being distinctly different, “pub chatter” between friends. But is this really the case? And does leaving these networks out of any regulation undermine the whole process?
In case you missed it…
Keen eyed readers may have spotted this piece on BBC reporting Scotland in December. Attacat’s very own Tim was called upon to comment on social media usage during the scandal involving a cleaner contacting a patient from the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
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