Keeping a close watch over social media since 1874.
There will always be business listing errors online. People sometimes do not pay attention. Businesses move or shut down. Some businesses are asleep at the wheel and unscrupulous competitors sabotage their listings. It happens. It’s not surprising that around 20% of the listings on popular sites like CitySearch and Mapquest are inaccurate. What was surprising is that the most accurate data apparently comes from Foursquare.
This is the easiest part to of a consolidated social media brand messaging campaign, but it’s also one that is not well understood and rarely implemented properly. The standard practice is to have a message, send it out on Twitter and Facebook, and move on to the next piece of news. It’s a futile effort.
There are many ways to slice and dice the data that people and businesses collect from social media. It is not the black hole that many believe it to be and ROI-savvy people who are willing to dive deeper into the numbers can be rewarded with the data they want… and then some.
This graphic depicts it all nicely. Click to enlarge.
From: Holiday Ford Via: Automotive SEO
Can Facebook break the trend? It seems that any time a web-based company gets “too big to fail”, it is destined to fall apart some time soon. History shows that companies often fall under the pressure of their own weight as well as poor decisions at the top. Is Mark Zuckerberg different? Is Facebook different? Will it stick around forever (or at least for another decade)?
We’ll see.
From: Yonkers Used Cars Via: CenturyLinkQuotes.com
Technology is getting both easier to use and harder to support at the same time. 2-year-olds are becoming tablet-savvy in ways that are changing the old joke about setting the clock on the VCR. Still, the intuitive nature of technology means an adjustment is needed in the IT help desk arena.
The world continues to experience unprecedented population growth. It’s a self-perpetuated problem; the more people there are, the more people they’ll make. Birth rates are not slowing and as more people have babies while life is extended through medical advances, it’s starting to get pretty crowded out there.
