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Barely a day goes by that a Facebook update doesn’t make us stop and think.  Whether it’s someone’s funny anecdote or a heartfelt plea for prayers, the social network lets us connect over stories in so many ways.
Almost three-quarters of responents to a recent Facebook question admitted that something that saw this week on Facebook really made them stop and think.
Forty-six per cent of respondents said that they’d seen between and one and five updates on Facebook  that made them stop and think this week. Eleven of the 41 respondents, …

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The concept of social shopping is nothing new. People have loved shopping together since the dawn of mankind.  Most women will attest that shoe shopping by yourself is just no fun at all.
Now thanks to social media, people can indulge in social shopping online and this trend is just in its infancy.  This infographic Gloople explains what online social shopping is and how it’s set to transform ecommerce.

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If you had to quit one social network, which would it be?  This is my most-answered Facebook question ever posed with 57 people taking the time to register a vote.

Unfortunately for Pinterest, the newest platform of all is the one that folks say they would quit first, with 22 people singling it out.
Next comes the much-maligned Google+ with 14 people willing to leave it in the dust.
Perhaps surprising, Facebook!  Six people would leave the most popular of social networks.
Five would kick Twitter to the curb.
Four would shirk LinkedIn.
Three would leave …

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Have you posted a Facebook status, immediately regretted it and taken it down in hope that no one has seen it?
This is the question I recently posed on Facebook using the questions tool.  Almost 30 people took the time to answer and the overwhelming response is, yes!  In fact, 21 people admitted to taking down something they posted because they regretted posting it in the first place. One person added he’d done it more times than he’d care to admit.
Five people said they’d never done it.   Another respondent said that …

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The Debtor List  is a free service that provides a searchable, public database where users can submit a claim for debts owed to them. Once a claim has been filed, users use social media tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google +1 to share the claim with their social network. The power of social media circulates the claim in the web and motivates the debtor(s) to pay.

The Debtor is informed of the claim via email and has a chance to dispute the claim. Otherwise the claim remains searchable on the …

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They say you should never discuss politics or religion, right?  Well this advice seems to hold true according a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project that on social networking sites.
Postings on social networking sites reveal surprises for many users when it comes to the political views of their friends. Nearly 40% of users discovered through postings by friends that their political beliefs were different than they thought. A small percentage of users blocked, unfriended or hidden someone on the site because their postings were …

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Social Media Informer is a website that collates social media blog posts to create an online where people can get all the latest news, information and opinion.
Its tagline is  “The Best Content about Social Media for Business”, and it sits alongside Alltop and Social Media Today in terms of content and community.  Some of social media’s top bloggers are featured on Social Media Former and it gives readers a great one-stop-shop to read their favourite blogs.
Regular readers of this blog may notice a new widget featured in the right margin.  …

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This video is chock full of the latest statistics for social media use in business and discusses what’s important in measuring ROI.

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Apparently, Canadians like to use of technology to manage their personal relationships. So much so  they tend not to worry about family due to technology advances helping to keep people connected.  This is the finding of a report published this week by Rogers (client).
The report focuses on how technology users connect to family and friends and includes a survey that 58 per cent of Canadians cannot imagine life without the modern conveniences of texting, email and social networking, while 39 per cent feel that staying connected with loved ones is …

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Reuters has launched Social Pulse, a social media hub on Reuters.com which highlights social media’s most shared news, companies and influencers.

It displays the news that is most popular in Reuters social network.  It also has a stock sentiment module, which features opinions from hundreds of thousands of sources captured and curated by WiseWindow, which uses statistical techniques and natural language processing to deliver predictive data in realtime. The chart is populated by share-of-voice readings, so depending on which companies are being talked about most that day, it will adapt.
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