The social media landscape has undergone enormous changes in recent years. With 2013 fast approaching, we thought this would be a good time to offer our forecasts into what the next year may hold in store for social media, mobile, social businesses and more.
Social sharing
Build links to your site with video content
Great, shareable video content can drive serious traffic to your site and boost your linkbacks. Distilled.net’s Jacob Klein shares tips and tricks to make sure you are getting the most out of your video content.
Be a persistent social media parent
Sure and steady wins out over the long haul They always say that the parents who put in all the boring, taken-for-granted time are the very best. That it’s not even about quality time, it’s about persistent time, time spent. I don’t want to compare parenting to social media community development and management, but I […]
Don’t fall in love with the shiny toy of the day
What you’re learning by “renting” your pages on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress.com, LinkedIn, and Google+, is portable, which is to say that everything you’re doing, experiencing, and learning will improve your ability to engage and market online into the future. So, that’s good.
Invest instead in engaging visitors, drawing online attention, encouraging social sharing and telling compelling stories
The downside is that all good things come to an end. The recent Facebook IPO backfire reminds us that even Facebook, with its 900 million active users worldwide, can still fall, as did MySpace and Friendster before it.
Why can’t I share to Google+ from my apps?
Now that I have my iPhone wired for sound, I do a majority of my tweeting and facebooking through the apps that I use. I use Instagram, which connects to my Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous, and FourSquare account. I use Hipstamatic and it connects and posts to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Flickr, I use Posterous and it will cross-post to Twitter and Facebook.