Do Facebook Ads Work?
All Facebook is happy to share the ten laws of Facebook advertising, but will those rules lead to better results than the .02% CTR Bob Gilbreath got a year ago?
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All Facebook is happy to share the ten laws of Facebook advertising, but will those rules lead to better results than the .02% CTR Bob Gilbreath got a year ago?
Why BuddyPress? “Build passionate users around a specific niche.”
Do you have to become a social network? “No, look at GigaOM Pro,” a recently launched subscription research site based on BuddyPress.
But, yo do get “BYOTOS: bring your own terms of service.” That is, you get to control content and interactions. And your service won’t be subject [...]
Facebook’s guide to sharing details some meta tags to make that sharing work better:
In order to make sure that the preview is always correctly populated, you should add the tags shown below to your html. An example news story could have the following:
<meta name="title" content="Smith hails ‘unique’ Wable legacy" />
<meta name="description" content="John Smith claims beautiful [...]
If you remember Ask.com, you probably remember Jeeves. Now he’s back on the UK site. It turns out that people liked the old chap, and in this age of social media, it’s probably prudent to have a corporate avatar (it looks a lot better on Facebook, anyway). There’s more about the resurrection at Search Engine [...]
 study sponsored by the WiFi alliance reveals the following:
WiFi and college choice
90% of college students say Wi-Fi access is as essential to education as classrooms and computers
57% say they wouldn’t go to a college that doesn’t have free Wi-Fi
79% say that without Wi-Fi access, college would be a lot harder
60% agree that widely available Wi-Fi [...]
Social Media in Plain English and RSS In Plain English, among others from Common Craft among the best explanations you’ll find.
DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut on Vimeo.
From DataPortability.org:
The DataPortability Project is a group created to promote the idea that individuals have control over their data by determing how they can use it and who can use it. This includes access to data that is under the control of another entity.
You should [...]
Hi, I’m Casey. I developed Scriblio, which is really just a faceted search and browse plugin for WordPress that allows you to use it as a library catalog or digital library system (or both).
I’m not the only one to misuse WordPress that way. Viddler is a cool YouTube competitor built atop WordPress that allows you [...]
All yesterday and this morning I’ve been seeing tweets about SWIFT, so I finally googled it to see what it was about. The service promises to help organize conferences in some new 2.0 way, but it looks to be about as preposterous a social network as WalMart’s aborted 2006 attempt at copying MySpace.
There are some [...]
A post to Web4lib alerted me to this U Mich survey about libraries in social networks (blog post) that finds 77% of students don’t care for or want libraries in Facebook or MySpace.
the biggest reason being that they feel the current methods (in-person, email, IM) are more than sufficient. 14% said no because they [...]
