About the author: Paul Chaney
WordPress takes top honors with SBoSM readers
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social-media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: Which blogging platform do you prefer to use? WordPress.org (self-hosted version) 26.30% WordPress.com (hosted version) 24.03% Not blogging yet 21.75% Blogger 15.58% Other 5.52% Typepad 2.60% Drupal 1.95% Joomla [...]
Businesses flock to using branded Facebook pages
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social-media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: Is your business marketing itself using a Facebook Fan Page? Yes, our company has a fan page – 73.13% No, we do not have a fan page – 12.24% [...]
How much time should social engagment take?
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social-media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: In an average week, how much time do you spend on social media? Between 1 and 5 hours — 36.84% Between 5 and 10 hours — 24.56% More than 10 hours [...]
Privacy on the Web, right or responsibility
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: Are we entitled to unchecked privacy on the Web? Yes — the right to privacy should be absolute – 45.96% Protecting online privacy is not our right, but our responsibility [...]
Twitter can track opinions — for certain kinds of people
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: A recent study shows Twitter isn’t a perfect measure of public opinion — but researchers say it shows promise in that field. How accurately do you think Twitter reflects [...]
Greeting Facebook’s changes with a groan
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social-media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: What do you think of the changes Facebook announced last week? I wish Facebook would leave well enough alone, 48% Facebook is making changes again!? 23% I think the changes [...]
What Ning’s cuts say about the future of free
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social-media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: Ning recently announced that it was shutting down its free service, telling site owners they must either pay up or go elsewhere. Does this move suggest that the “freemium” [...]
Twitter is evolving and still relevant
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: With the rise of location-based platforms such as Foursquare and Gowalla, has Twitter become old hat? The new and shiny has worn off Twitter, but it’s still useful [...]
