Archive for Facebookapps SmartBlogs

SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues.

This week, we asked: Has your company created a Facebook app as part of its Facebook strategy? The results:

  • No: 61.54%
  • Yes: 22.22%
  • My company isn’t on Facebook: 16.24%

Facebook applications can be such a double-edged sword.[…] Continue Reading »

This post is by Jim Belosic, CEO and co-founder of ShortStack, a Facebook platform-based application helping businesses build customized tabs for Facebook Pages that maximize their social media presence and potential.

At ShortStack, we’re excited about the changes to Facebook Timeline for business Pages. Facebook is putting a lot of power in the hands of Page admins with new features such as the Reach Generator and an increased application width of 810 pixels.[…] Continue Reading »

Georgia Gier does social media for Venpop, where she manages various social media accounts and blogs about current trends related to the world of social networks, social marketing, e-commerce and all things social media. You can check out her posts on the Venpop blog.

Now that all Facebook users have to switch over to the new Facebook Timeline, questions are being raised about the possibility of Timeline for brand pages.[…] Continue Reading »

What you can learn from RIM’s Twitter fumble; the best free Facebook apps; and why one Google employee called Google+ a “complete failure.”

It’s all in this week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Social Media:

Image credit: narvikk, via iStockphoto[…] Continue Reading »