Social Media Observatory

Even at 250 million Tweets per day in addition to the updates across Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, and every other feed that we willfully subscribe to, information overload is in of itself a fallacy. But the feeling the overload of information is very real and a reflection of our inability to pull the levers necessary to decrease noise and improve signal. Doing so, requires some very blatant actions that don’t simply…

The Modern Media Agency Series is presented by IDG. IDC Infographic: Big Data Market to Grow 40% Per Year. Technology vendors of all sizes across hardware, software, and services stand to gain in the explosion of big data spending over the next

The following is a guest post from someone I admire a great deal. Chris Guillebeau is out there doing some amazing things in the world of helping others design lifestyle businesses. His latest book, The $100 Startup (amazon affiliate link), is wor

How many articles have been written about Facebook in its eight-year history? Impossible to tell — by the time you came up with an estimate, no doubt, another dozen would have been added to the list. It is, at least, easy to pinpo

Linda Coles, founder of Blue Banana, is a speaker, trainer and author of Learn Marketing With Social Media in 7 Days. Did you know two new members join LinkedIn every second? As a result, more people are using it for intelligence, recr

Facebook has adjusted the date by which it expects to close its $1-billion acquisition of Instagram. Previously, Facebook said it expected the deal to close within the second quarter, which ends in June. On Tuesday, the company u

Some of you know me through my work in studying how social media and disruptive technology impact business and culture. Others have worked with me in translating insights into action and change within the enterprise.  Every now and then,

Exactly how much are you worth to Facebook, in terms of advertising dollars? A new quiz will help you find out. Online privacy company Abine has a Val-You quiz that will determine your dollar value to Facebook. The quiz asks you where y

I recently moved the delivery time of my beloved newsletter to be Sunday morning (well, that’s when it launches here, though my New Zealander and Australian friends all get it on Monday). In the process, I talked to people about sha

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is telling would-be investors that mobile is Facebook’s number one priority. Zuckerberg addressed about 200 investors during the Palo Alto leg of Facebook’s IPO roadshow, answering questions a