Tag Archives: Social

Calm Down Dear! It’s Just Another Facebook Hoax!

Yesterday was a dark day. A fake Facebook copyright message claiming to protect users’ media has once again gone viral on the social network. The Facebook hoax originally serviced in 2012. The message claims to put copyright protections on a user’s posts after they share the status update. It’s obviously doesn’t, however people’s newsfeed’s were flooded with the…

Social Media Review 2014

With 2014 coming to a close and some of the social networks currently celebrating new milestones, let’s scratch a little deeper and see what the major players have achieved this year and where they stand in the current social landscape. Social media usage continues to rise, although much of this growth relates to the increased…

Search: Facebook Posts

Now rolling out in the US for iPhone and Facebook for desktop, Facebook has launched it’s all new and improved Facebook Search. Until now, if you wanted to find that witty status you shared a few weeks ago or that post where your friend wrote a cookery recipe to your timeline; it was a case of good luck with…

Dark Social turn’s out to be Facebook

You may have heard of the phenomenon called ‘dark social’. It’s a term originally coined back in 2012 by Alexis Madrigal, whom whilst with The Atlantic; noted that despite having the ability to track and measure every detail of user traffic, there was a rather big portion that actually couldn’t be identified. Back then, Madrigal…

The Facebook “I’m a Voter” button and it’s possibilities for the future

Facebook have been working hard lately updating and for the most part improving their iOS app. But they have now rolled out the “I’m a Voter” button internationally after recent success elsewhere. Today is Election Day in the UK and when I opened the Facebook app this morning I was greeted with the following message…

Content that converts: Tip 2 – Understand your audience

The second in the series of “10 tips to make content convert” from the Content Marketing Show 2013. The importance of understanding your audience can never be underestimated. The secret to creating successful content is knowing who your audience is, and what they want to read. It sounds obvious but it’s amazing how often this…