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I watched a pro­gram tonight that was on prior to the Acad­emy Awards pro­gram called the ‘Red Car­pet’.  It was the nor­mal ‘meet and great’ of stars.  You know… who they were with, what they were wear­ing, etc. One big thing that really stood out to me was that the inter­view­ers / reporters talked to the stars BUT asked ques­tions that had been posted on Face­book and Twit­ter — and — not one even flinched.  Wow, what a change from even last year.

So you have to know that if social media has hit the Oscar ‘red car­pet’ you best be hit­ting social media in your business!

Many con­grats to the win­ners Jeff, San­dra and Kathryn — right on!!

BTW — did you get a look at some of those dresses???

Jan

I went into Face­book yes­ter­day and noticed at the top it now had News Feed and Live Feed.  Wasn’t sure what it was except that Live Feed looks very much like Twit­ter with benefits. 

Facebook’s Ray­lene Yung  explains: “While see­ing real-time activ­i­ties is extremely valu­able, we also want to be sure you don’t miss other inter­est­ing con­tent. After hear­ing feed­back from many of you and explor­ing some new designs, we decided with today’s changes to move what you used to see in High­lights from the right-hand side to the News Feed view in the main col­umn so you can more eas­ily engage with both views.”

Chris Crum’s arti­cle states they are test­ing so this may change due to how users react. 

What do you think?

There are a num­ber of good arti­cles out there about what is going on with Google and Bing when it comes to Rank­ings and search results.

“Google and Microsoft have both inked deals with Twit­ter, and Microsoft has also inked one with Face­book to inte­grate Twit­ter and Face­book updates into Bing search results. Google will be adding tweets to search results.” says  Chris Crum.

Google’s Marissa Mayer says, “We believe that our search results and user expe­ri­ence will greatly ben­e­fit from the inclu­sion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look for­ward to hav­ing a prod­uct that show­cases how tweets can make search bet­ter in the com­ing months. That way, the next time you search for some­thing that can be aided by a real-time obser­va­tion, say, snow con­di­tions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and shar­ing the lat­est and great­est information.”

Click here to read more of his article.

Any­one who uses Twit­ter fre­quently knows how hard it is to keep up with Tweets.  Not only that, if some­one has posted some­thing and you answer your answer will come as a tweet and not a retweet if you don’t do it right.

One of the best ways to ensure you are reply­ing to a tweet is “Tweet­deck”  http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/Tweetdeck 

Tweet­deck is a very pop­u­lar appli­ca­tion for run­ning Twit­ter on your desk­top and phone. It has many fea­tures, but one of its best is its one-click retweet­ing fea­ture – hov­er­ing over a pro­file pic­ture pro­vides the easy option for retweet­ing anyone’s tweets – just click the bot­tom left icon.

Here’s is how it looks on my com­puter screen

Tweet­deck is free to down­load, installs quickly but how would any­one get any work done!

An arti­cle in the Van­cou­ver Sun (Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia, Canada) today states that Face­book will revamp the way it pro­tects per­sonal information.

“Pri­vacy com­mis­sioner Jen­nifer Stod­dart on Thurs­day announced Face­book will add “sig­nif­i­cant new pri­vacy safe­guards” to bring the Cal­i­for­nia com­pany into com­pli­ance with Canada’s private-sector pri­vacy law.”

Another point I find important:

“The biggest change, to be imple­mented across the entire Face­book net­work over the next 12 months, will cur­tail the access out­side soft­ware devel­op­ers have to the per­sonal infor­ma­tion of users.”

I don’t know about you but ever since I signed up for Face­book my spam emails has tripled and I get newslet­ters / announce­ments / adver­tise­ments / etc., from peo­ple and com­pa­nies that I never signed up for OR opted in to. I am hop­ing this will help stop that.

Read more of this arti­cle here:

http://snipurl.com/rgxlv