Archive for the ‘features’ Category
7 Services to Find and Reserve Your Name Across the Web
This series is supported by Gillette. Learn more about Gillette and its products at Gillette.com.If you choose a different username for every site you’re on, it can be hard to create a consistent identity across the web. The problem, however -- as TwitterTwitter-spoofed Megan Fox, BP, and even ...Read More
5 Trends Affecting How We Connect Through Social Media
Yuli Ziv is the founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of independent online publishers in the fashion and lifestyle vertical, based in NYC. She blogs on social media, entrepreneurship and tech at YuliZiv.com. Follow her on Twitter @yuliz.No matter how much we open up on the web, creating ...Read More
Why Location-Based Social Media Needs to Get “Passive” Aggressive
Jesse Thomas is the CEO and Founder of JESS3, a Creative Interactive Agency. JESS3 designs products and experiences for brands like Google, Nike, Facebook, MySpace, C-SPAN, Microsoft and NASA.Ten years ago, Seth Godin predicted the demise of "interruption marketing" and the rise of "permission marketing." His idea was that intrusive ...Read More
Mashable Weekend Recap: 12 Stories You May Have Missed
It's Monday morning, and you know what that means: It's time to rejoin the rat race. Make sure you have a head start by reviewing these news stories and resources you might have missed this Saturday and Sunday.This weekend, TwitterTwitter let a bug slip by that (for just a couple ...Read More
7 Steps to Measuring Your Brand’s Social Media Health
Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Attensity, a social media engagement and voice-of-customer platform that helps the social enterprise serve and collaborate with the social customer. You can follow her on Twitter at @themaria or @attensity360, or find her musings on her personal blog and her company's ...Read More
25 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed
If you've some catching up to do this weekend, we've got a list that's hot and fresh from the Mashable HQ kitchen. This is your one-stop shop for all the resources you might have missed.In the social media department, you'll find some useful tools to track those pesky TwitterTwitter unfollowers, ...Read More
Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
If you think teens aren't a chatty demographic on Twitter, think again. We've seen many teen culture trends hit the top of the charts over the last few months, and this week, Fox's Teen Choice Awards dethroned Inception, which had carried the top spot for nearly a month.The explosion of ...Read More
5 Tips for Dealing with Complaints on Twitter
Megan Berry is Marketing Manager for Klout, the standard for online influence. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and Brazen Careerist. You can follow her on Twitter at @meganberry.Every business, blogger, and the rest of us on social media have experienced it: someone just called you out on TwitterTwitter ...Read More
15 of the Funniest Facebook Questions [PICS]
Since the launch of Facebook's new "Questions" feature which lets you crowdsource answers from your social circle, we've been dying to see just what is being asked.As we suspected, Facebook Questions turns out to be a pretty good source of humor, and during our browsing we came across some funny ...Read More
HOW TO: Get Tweetable Moments from Your Presentations
Dan Zarrella is a social media and viral marketing scientist. You can read his blog and follow him on Twitter. Be sure to attend Dan's free webinar, The Science of Presentations on August 19th, and download the accompanying eBook.TwitterTwitter is here to stay but there is some science to creating ...Read More