You know about Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. You might be using them every day for business and consider yourself a social media professional. The fact is there are a lot more social tools that aren’t social networks, and quite a few of those definitely deserve your attention. 1.       Social Intranet. What if Facebook included all the elements of SalesForce, Dropbox, Google Calendar, BaseCamp, RememberTheMilk and WhatsApp? That’s social intranet for you – a private corporate social network that helps you work with clients, collaborate with co-workers, share files, exchange ideas and vote on next week’s cafeteria menu – accessible 24/7 from ... Read More »

There are so many blogs out there on the internet these days and with more popping up all the time; it can seem as though you’re lost in the shuffle. Lucky for you, we have the perfect solutions that are going to help you step up your game and get your blog noticed. 1. Figure out What Your Audience Wants If you’ve been posting for a while, then you should be able to come up with some sort of idea as to what types of posts your members enjoy the most. Maybe there are certain keywords that seem to really ... Read More »

“Read it Later,” the most popular way for users to save content they find on the web to view later on any device, has become the all new, free “Pocket.” Pocket is for when people discover an interesting article, video or web page, but don’t have time to view it. Once saved to Pocket, the list of content is visible on any device – phone, tablet or computer. Four years ago, Read it Later was created to allow users to save their web content to view later on their own schedule. One year ago, Read It Later had 2.5 million ... Read More »

Saving recipes, images of fashions you like and recipes you wanna try someday in your computer or in a notebook is totally passé. With Pinterest, the new online bulletin board you can now pin everything you like and access them from anywhere, anytime. The popularity of Pinterest is growing day by day and in the last six months of 2011 Pinterest experienced a 815% growth in traffic (unbelievable, but true!). The darling network of aspiring bakers, stylists and brides-to-be has such a charm that once you visit the site for the first time, you will definitely find something of your ... Read More »

What if a small child can beat Hercules and Achiles? That’s what happened to Pinterest, a two year old social bookmarking site with a twist. In January 2012, it has beaten social networking giants like YouTube, Reddit, Google+, LinkedIn and MySpace for percentage of total referral traffic, as per a  study by Shareaholic. In fact in December 2011, Pinterest brought in 7.51 million unique visitors (+429% from September 2011). As per the study, Pinterest accounted for 3.6% of referral traffic which landed it just behind Twitter and Facebook. Twitter is accounting for 3.61% of referral traffic (just 0.01% ahead of Pinterest). If we look back to July ... Read More »