Tag Archives: facebook
5 Social Media Ideas For The New Year
You know what social media is, but do you know how to maximize its potential in your life? Any entrepreneur worth his or her salt should be actively leveraging social media in order to harvest new ideas, monetize old ones, and send your financial endeavor on an arc of meteoric growth. Whether you’re in the [...]
Why The Secrecy Bill Is Such A Stupid Idea
The proposed Protection of Information Bill is an exercise in purest futility. The Information Express left the station years ago and simply cannot be stopped. Just ask the Chinese or the American intelligence community.
In the past few days I’ve overheard, read and engaged in conversations about the new bill that’s currently before Parliament. Some excerpts:
”South [...]
Local Group Buying Company CityMob Introduces In-Facebook Deals
CityMob is one of a plethora of group buying startups that have flooded the market. In a highly competitive market, CityMob has distinguished itself by focusing on building a strong community using social networking platforms like Facebook.
Yesterday CityMob launched ‘CityMob Fan Deals’, which is a first for a group buying company in South Africa. [...]
Why Should You Care About Google Plus (video)
There’s been a LOT of buzz about Google’s new social network lately and feedback has been mixed. I’ve been checking it out specifically because of criticism over the past few years of Google not being able to compete in the social space.
Terms like ‘one trick pony’ have been levelled at the search giant, and [...]
Social Medial: It’s impact on PR tactics
Social media platforms have forever disrupted traditional PR works in its processes, values, strategies and campaigns. These methods of communications have moved from being the social domain of individuals to a rapidly growing and vastly changing landscape which the PR industry ignores at its peril.
Social media has the benefits of being a way to speak [...]
Facebook’s New Social Widget, the ‘Send’ Button
What does it mean for your website? Similar to the Facebook ‘Like’ button, the new ‘Send’ button will allow users the opportunity to share your website content, but with selected contacts. In mid November last year, Mark Zuckerberg released a figure that roughly 4 billion private messages are sent daily on Facebook. More than 350 [...]
How do I get more customers to walk into my restaurant using the web?
I love eating out and if I could do it professionally then I would! There is nothing quite like a well prepared meal from a restaurant any day in my mind. However the challenge that a restaurant owner faces in this day is how to use the web to get more bums on seats. How [...]
What you need to know about Facebook’s latest change to Pages
This morning Facebook made some rather large changes to the way you administrate your pages on Facebook.
You can now switch roles
The most fundamental change is the ability to now change your role on Facebook.
Facebook allows you to “switch your role” on Facebook and let your browse the Facebook network as an organisation, company, [...]
With Facebook Insights Comes Social Media Enjoyment
With so much variety whilst consuming digital media and so little time browsing through it all, we really should gain insight into who we are communicating with. If you have a facebook page and no “guru” running it for you, then you should utilise the tools available. If you receive a weekly email from facebook [...]
Is Facebook a Feasible option for a small business to grow their community?
A community on Facebook is no different to a group of people with a common interest. Not everyone speaks to everyone in your area, but you live within a community and only if that community is active, does it strive to achieve great things. I must say that simply “being” on Facebook is not a [...]
