Monthly Archives: June 2012
Thank You Facebook For the Voice Feature.
Finally, there isn’t any confusion on whether or not I’m as a page or as myself. It got quite annoying when one minute you could actually “like” something as yourself on pages you admin to the next day only liking as a page. Now to my pleasant surprise Facebook made it clear as day right across the top of the page.
You can find it when you’re using Facebook as your profile and actually search and select the pages you manage (so you’re still viewing as yourself.) The voice tab will be at the top right and you can easily toggle between yourself or as the page. Very convenient feature. I look forward to many new exciting features to come!
Whats on your feature wishlist?
Cia0,
Tanesha White
Importance of Having or Being a Social Champion, Big Brand Facebook Spam Gone Wrong
I was just browsing through some of my fav fanpages such as Coca Cola and Pepsi. It amazes that such big brands still can’t quite keep up with their social media moderation. I understand the importance in allowing fans to post to your page for the interaction, but this needs to be closely monitored especially if you’re a small business. For example the screenshot below shows the activity log of recent posts to Pepsi’s FB wall. Obviously the “seexy videoos” is just horrible spam, but the thumbnail picture is absolutely offensive and pornographic, “hence” the red X 
. The simple fact that kids will see this as soon as they come to their favorite drink’s fan page is sickening.
Bigger brand with a million + fans yeah not that detrimental to business, but if you’re a smaller company and have outsourced your social media management you still can’t let treat it like it’s on cruise control because you’re entire social efforts could crumble apart with an incident like this.
I’ve seen many mistakes made by agencies and careless “accidental” postings or unmonitored networks subjected to obscene spam. Don’t fall victim to it. When outsourcing your social media efforts you have to have someone accountable within in your organization, your “champion.” be sure your agency gets you familiar with setting alerts or simply helping you find the right mobile apps to keep you in the know when you’re on the go. You may not be able to stop the spam 100%, but you can be prepared if it happens and be able to put the fire out when need be! So just remember this is your reputation as a business owner staying social is a business by itself and you don’t have to take the reigns, just make sure you know what the horse doing, lol.
Good Luck!
Tanesha White
More Link Juice for Twitter as Hashtags and Username links Now Appear in Facebook Posts
This is very cool I came across this article this morning @thenextweb.com. Here’s a clip below:
Twitter users have been able to post links to Facebook via the microblog service for some time, and now it appears that Facebook is adding links for hashtags and usernames. The feature is identical to the way that it adds previews for URLs included in status updates.
Here’s a status update on Facebook (sent via Twitter) that shows the link for hashtags:
Read the Full Article here
So what does this mean for businesses that have a Twitter and Facebook? It means more exposure especially for the business brand on Twitter. If businesses have branded a hashtag that tweeps are familiar with this is going to be a way to really cross pollinate with their Facebook following. And really introduce some people to microblogging if they really haven’t been exposed yet. Yes this finally means that the majority will finally understand the purpose of a hashtag in the first place since the use of them has crossed over to Facebook as a form of expression rather than organizing conversation. I will be curious to see spikes of engagement and new followers.
Ciao,
Tanesha White
Did You Know, Fun Social Facts and Infographic
People spend 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook
YouTube generates 92 billion page views per month (These YouTube stats don’t include videos viewed on phones and embedded in websites)
More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years
People upload 3,000 images to Flickr (the photo sharing social media site) every minute
Flickr hosts over 5 billion images70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
Google gets 7.2 billion daily page views
270,000 words a minute are written on Blogger
60% of all tweets come from third-party apps
3 years, 2 months and 1 day…the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet.
12.4 million tweets per hour or 27.9 million tweets in just 2 hours and 35 minutes) Was achieved during Obama's speech about Osama Bin Laden
The Digital Diva 