It’s Social Media Week in New York. Wednesday night the Social Media Society hosted Social Media Influencer Awards & Party at the Yotel Hotel in Midtown, Manhattan. The party recognized the most influential social media campaigns, profiles and social videos of the year. Entries were voted on by the public, with a final vote cast by [...]
Last night WeWork Lounge in Soho hosted a Press/PR for Startups event, inviting panelists Courtney Boyd Myers, The Next Web; Sarah Kessler, Mashable; Ed Zitron, TriplePoint & Forbes; Dorothy Jean, Brew Media Relations; Ben Kessler, Crowdtap. Here are [...]
[Brad Harrison, BHV Fund; Hezekiah Griggs, H360 Capital; Eric Bertrand, EJB Capital; Heather Gilchrist, Rak Group; Jonathan Axelrod, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator; Sam Valle, Managing Partner, Dass Partners; Lucian Burm, NineConnections; Matt Bishop, iGiveMore; Rick Annichiarico, Lumarex, LLC] Under 30 CEO hosted a “Tough Questions Competition” Event [...]
[Vanessa Dawson, Co-Founder, Evry; Susie Huang, Managing Partner @Searchgency; Anne Libby @annelibby; Kelly Hoey, Founder, Women Innovate Mobile Accelerator] Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) held a reception mixer sponsored by EveryScreen Media on Mercer St. in lower Manhattan today. The goal was to promote their startup accelerator and mentorship program designed [...]
Ever wonder what time of day your Facebook posts and Twitter tweets have the highest potential of getting comments/likes/RTs/replies? Here are the answers, for within the United States: The best time to tweet is 5PM ET The best days to tweet are midweek and on the weekends The best days to share on Facebook is [...]
Google rolled out “Search, Plus Your World” on Tuesday, 01/11/2012 for all English-language searches. This new feature is powered by Google’s social network of ~60 million Google+ users. The search engine hopes to return more relevant and personalized results through its learnings of users’ behaviors and interests. What this means: Personal Results currently only show [...]
Here are some thoughts on when it makes sense for a company to build a mobile app vs. mobile website: When it makes sense to build a Mobile Website: – Good for email newsletter embed links. You can embed links that direct to your mobile website in emails and newsletters. This way when the user [...]
More and more companies are creating custom native apps, but does this mean every company should jump on the app bandwagon? And even after you decide to create apps, what platforms should it be on: iOS, Android, Windows, or Blackberry? No doubt that statistics show trends of downloading apps are on the super-rise: there were [...]
According to Amazon’s Press Release on December 15, 2011, the company has sold more than 1 million Kindle Fire tablets per week in the past 3 weeks. Amazon states the Kindle Fire is the best-selling and most wishlist-added product on Amazon.com since the tablet was available for purchase late October. The top 3 products on [...]
Ever wonder what time of day your Facebook posts and Twitter tweets have the highest potential of getting comments/likes/RTs/replies? Here are the answers, for within the United States: The best time to tweet is 5PM ET The best days to tweet are midweek and on the weekends The best days to share on Facebook is [...]
More and more people are creating Google+ Brand Pages for their companies/brands despite having an existing Facebook Fan Pages. The 2 pages are similar in features and functionality, but here are the noted differences: Publish to Audience: With Google+ circles, companies can better categorize their customers. Companies could put different target audiences/customers in different circles [...]
What to do tonight? Facebook launched “Suggested Events” in place of the previous “Friends’ Events” tab. The suggested events are generated based on your check-ins at different venues: bars, restaurants, events, etc. Facebook collects the FB pages, artists, and performers you like to include in Suggested Events. Although Facebook is still testing out this feature, [...]
Product Description: Facebook Subscribe is a one-way subscription to get updates on people and websites without having to be friends. The Goods: Anyone with a Facebook account can subscribe No subscriber maximum Don’t have to be friends to subscribe. e.g. won’t see all info/pictures you normally only share with friends No 140 character limit Broader [...]
http://www.sonar.me/ Product Description: While you’re out in a public space, Sonar attempts to answer the question “Who do I know here?” Once a user checks-in, Sonar displays a list of all users that have checked-in to the same venue as well as any shared connections you have with them via Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and LinkedIn. [...]
http://uplanme.com/ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/uplanme Product Description: My first encounter with UPlanMe was through UrbanDaddy‘s newsletter New York edition, calling it “The Pandora of Calendars”. It describes: “Introducing UPlanMe, a self-aware smart calendar that’ll constantly evolve to meet your extracurricular scheduling needs, available now in private beta.” UPlanMe is a service that provides events suggestions based on a [...]
On December 8th, Facebook rolled out the Subscribe Button for websites so that users can follow authors, journalists, etc. directly from websites and get updates just like how they receive updates from friends. Users can often find the subscribe button after a journalist’s name in an article (see image below). Clicking on the subscribe button [...]
Social Media Influencer Awards #SMWNY
It’s Social Media Week in New York. Wednesday night the Social Media Society hosted Social Media Influencer Awards & Party at the Yotel Hotel in Midtown, Manhattan. The party recognized the most influential social media campaigns, profiles and social videos of the year. Entries were voted on by the public, with a final vote cast by [...]
PR for Startups Event – WeWork Lounge Soho
Last night WeWork Lounge in Soho hosted a Press/PR for Startups event, inviting panelists Courtney Boyd Myers, The Next Web; Sarah Kessler, Mashable; Ed Zitron, TriplePoint & Forbes; Dorothy Jean, Brew Media Relations; Ben Kessler, Crowdtap. Here are [...]
Under 30 CEO Tough Questions Competition Event
[Brad Harrison, BHV Fund; Hezekiah Griggs, H360 Capital; Eric Bertrand, EJB Capital; Heather Gilchrist, Rak Group; Jonathan Axelrod, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator; Sam Valle, Managing Partner, Dass Partners; Lucian Burm, NineConnections; Matt Bishop, iGiveMore; Rick Annichiarico, Lumarex, LLC] Under 30 CEO hosted a “Tough Questions Competition” Event [...]
Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) Mixer sponsored by EveryScreen Media
[Vanessa Dawson, Co-Founder, Evry; Susie Huang, Managing Partner @Searchgency; Anne Libby @annelibby; Kelly Hoey, Founder, Women Innovate Mobile Accelerator] Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) held a reception mixer sponsored by EveryScreen Media on Mercer St. in lower Manhattan today. The goal was to promote their startup accelerator and mentorship program designed [...]
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