2011 was an interesting year in the social media world, we witnessed both expected and unexpected events. We all consumed the news, points of view and even rants from different sources, and man do we have a wide selection of sources in this segment.
In the middle of this overdose of information, somehow we all kind of select our favorite sources and bloggers and we mostly stay loyal to them.
This list is not based on a voting system and it does not provide participants with a shiny badge to rock on their site, the goals are simply to acknowledge and thank them for their outstanding (and hard) work throughout the year and also share them with you, hopefully you discover some of them here and add them to your list of favorites.
Instead this list is based, as the headline reads, on the favorite social media blogs and bloggers here at SocialMouths. In other words, what we actually consume week after week. I hope you enjoy them and take the time to pay them a visit.
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You probably heard something about Path in the last month or so but the truth is, the social network has been getting love from early adopters and media since its launch over a year ago.
So how come you hear about it now? What do you need to know about Path? How does it play a role in your life? And very important, what not to do with it…
These are some of the things we’ll talk about today here, hopefully you’ll end up with a clear picture.
And, just so you don’t miss it, there is a poll at the end of the post, make sure you participate!
Why are you hearing so much about Path lately?
A couple of things have been going on for the social network, including:
A Shiny New Redesign
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I know, too much talk about Twitter and you still trying to figure out if it’s right for you or your business, or if you should tweet as yourself or as a business.
While everybody and their grandmas are looking for new angles to keep arguing about the war between Facebook and G+, Twitter came back yesterday to kindly drop a bomb on the Internet. Just in time to make it in 2011. Twitter gets a high five from me!
Now you’re hearing about “Discovery” and “Brand Pages” and your head’s spinning about how you approach it or how you adjust.
Fortunately Flowtown just published its new infographic to help you determine how you are going to use Twitter or if you should stay clear. And it sort of funny too…
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This is a guestpost by Srinivas Rao from The Skool of Life.
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time on Google Plus and I’m finding that the quality of conversation with content creators is significantly higher there.
So I decided to put that theory to the test and ask some bloggers to share their best tips to on using Google Plus.
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We can discuss how successful companies are using social media but it will be better to hear it from them, specially when it comes to small business.
I’m always concerned about small business because there is a huge difference in what it takes to be successful. When brands run online campaigns they’re usually backed up by a juicy number of ad impressions or other kind of support. Just a few days ago a friend asked me how we were able to get 100k Likes on a Facebook page so fast, I responded “they have a huge TV campaign”. His face filled with disappointment…
Point is, small business goes out there to fight with a stick. Guerrilla style. Most small businesses have pretty depressing stories when it comes to finding any success online. They don’t have the budget, the resources or the knowledge.
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This is a guestpost by Bradley Gauthier, a Digital Nomad.
As the social web becomes more important for online success, I’ve noticed a major flaw within Internet marketing:
Most online content marketers have it wrong.
Or at least partly wrong.
But before you storm off for the pitchforks and torches, let me explain through a quick story:
The Band Promoter
A few years ago, my roommate at the time was obsessed with a band. He owned all their albums and memorized the lyrics to every song.
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This is a guest post by Leo Widrich from BufferApp.
“Using 3rd party Apps to post to Facebook decreases engagement by up to 70%.” This was one of the striking headlines a few weeks back that a study found.
And it was very understandable I believe. Facebook would not only collapse posts from the same App, but also decrease their visibility considerably. Another big issue was that a lot of “FB posts” from 3rd party apps actually looked just like Tweets.
What I found is that this can easily turn off users from engaging with the content.
Yet, things changed dramatically in the past few weeks. As Mark Zuckerberg announced in a recent statement, Facebook doesn’t care about getting more users. They want to be a platform with a healthy app eco-system.
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This is a guestpost by Ana Hoffman from Traffic Generation Cafe.
I am asked over and over again how I manage to get over a hundred tweets per post on a regular basis.
The answer is actually quite simple and, in many ways, very obvious: it’s all about networking and collaboration.
Here are my 7 ways to get an impressive number of retweets nearly on autopilot.
1. Quantity Matters
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again – quantity of your Twitter followers does matter.
Of course, I am not discounting quality either. As a matter of fact, we will talk about it a little later.
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