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August 29th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
Button, button, who’s got the button? Facebook, that’s who. The popular social media site’s “Like” button has infiltrated the popular culture as well as proved to be a make-or-break for some people’s day, social status or mood in general. Now Facebook will rev it up a little bit with the creation of a new button for people to get happy…
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August 8th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
The flood of advertising for affordable insurance is not limited to TV and print ads. Social network sites are now a place for insurance providers to offer discounts for safe, responsible drivers. Insurance companies maintain their own pages on Facebook and other similar media network sites, and visiting these pages may actually result in a savings on insurance.
Although some…
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July 27th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
It seems like every other a day, another teacher is losing their job over something Facebook related. Unfortunately, though Facebook may be your own personal account, many school districts are using the information they find on these sites to get rid of teachers.
If you’re a teacher, you need to protect yourself from being a Facebook victim. Use the following…
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July 26th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
Most businesses have caught on by now to the fact that social media can be hugely beneficial to any company, no matter how big or small. All of the content is 100% user-generated, the platforms leverage social interaction and networking and pretty much everyone is using it.
Well we all know what it can do for our businesses, but is…
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July 26th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
Facebook is my number one distraction. Have you ever wondered who exactly is looking at your profile? With a private profile, your friends are the only ones that can view your images, but when it’s public it’s open to everyone with Facebook. It’s virtual paparazzi on your life, except you’re allowing it to happen. Here are some things you should…
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July 16th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
The Facebook chain status is today’s equivalent of the naughties chain emails. You remember…
“Forward this in 10 seconds to 100 people or you’ll die at the hands of the creepy Japanese girl in this photo, as she somehow manages to do The Ring thing and crawl out of your computer screen TONIGHT”.
As the forwarding of emails like this…
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June 29th, 2012 by Ann Smarty
When it comes to an exciting, interesting, fashion-forward and ethical e-commerce brand, there’s a new kid in town. We’re talking about Boticca.com – launched in 2009, it has gone from strength to strength, sweeping the online fashion world off its feet.
If you haven’t heard of Boticca before, it’s a platform whereby independent fashion accessory and jewellery designers from all…
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June 24th, 2012 by Ann Smarty
Nowadays most of us use at least three social media sites (Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus). While it is really hard to choose between Facebook and Twitter (they are too different, so we use both), it’s almost impossible to get away from Google Plus is you use other Google’s projects like Gmail (so we are forced to sue that one…
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June 14th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
Consider it the most profitable college popularity contest in history.
Facebook, which once went by the name “Facemash” in its early dorm-room development stages, started as a means of determining who at Harvard University was considered “hot,” and who was “not.” By compiling a list of student IDs with the best hacking skills a college education can buy, Zuckerberg made…
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June 8th, 2012 by Ann Smarty
A recent survey by The Creative Group has revealed that more than 50% of marketing and advertising professionals believe that companies will look to further their investment in social media sites like Facebook in the next 12 months.
Why would they be doing this? Simply because, Facebook is one of the simplest, cheapest and most effective ways for brands to…
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