@Midwest received many interesting entries in our “Share Your Story” contest. After deliberating the committee selected the three entries below as winners. Congratulations to Wendy Parish, Matt Drat, and Julie Hancock-House! You will each be receiving a free ticket to @Midwest. Check out their stories below and see how they used the power of social media to create major impacts for their clients/constituents. Thank you to all who submitted! Read more…
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We hear it every day, “Everyone I know is on Facebook“ or “Google+ is boring…”. Let me ask you this: are you on social networks to be talking with friends, playing games or are you trying to build your business online? Google is the leader when it comes to search, they work hard at making sure that searches get the results they need. Google is integrating Google Plus across their various platforms, such as YouTube, Gmail, and Google Search. Give it a try! Google Plus will help you with both referral traffic and search traffic. Will Facebook help you get listed in the Search results? No. Read more…
So, you’ve decided to make use of social media to promote your business or organization. You’ve created a Page or Profile, and you’ve managed to attract 30 or 40 fans or followers. You may have thought that people would just flock to your page, but that isn’t the case. Besides your employees and your brother-in-law, you haven’t attracted any potential customers to your profile. Read more…
Last week, while presenting to a class of MBA students at Illinois State University, the question of social media brand monitoring came up. A student was struggling with how to get his administration to understand the importance of online monitoring. When I asked what why the administration was against utilizing social media and online monitoring, the answer lined up perfectly with those stated by Jeff Bullas. Reasons like: Read more…
I signed up for the Facebook Graph Search waiting list when a notification about it popped up on my homepage. I expected to wait for a month before anything would become of it. Only a week later, I received another notification that I had been removed from the waiting list. Facebook invited me to try out the new Graph Search. Read more…
If there is one thing consistent about Facebook Pages, it’s that things change without any notifications. Unless you follow Facebook’s developer’s blog or some other techno-geek blog, you might never know what or when they implement changes. Last December (the 15th to be exact), they did it again by changing the terms the govern your Facebook Pages. While most are relatively minor changes, there are two changes that have bigger ramifications on most users. Read more…
Facebook has shared its fourth quarter results for 2012 along with its full-year earnings results. The report, which boasts highlights such as a greater move to capture the mobile market, the launch of Graph Search, and the release of Facebook for Android 2.0, also painted a picture of a company that has maintained profitability but is still struggling to earn the confidence of investors. Read more…
Facebook is constantly evolving and creating new features. Some of which we love, and many of which we dislike and complain about for months until the next new change comes out for us to complain about. Read more…
@Midwest announces a call for speakers
@Midwest is seeking speakers for their 3rd annual social media conference to be held June 6–7, 2013, at Heartland Community College’s Astroth Community Education Center. @Midwest is a two-day forum where experts address small to mid-sized business professionals who are creating a social media presence or enhancing current practices. The conference is seeking experts and business professionals willing to serve as a session speakers. There are presently six speaking positions available.
By Steven Barcus
New year’s resolutions are generally not unique, nor do they even need to wait for the new year. Eating healthy, exercising more, reading, cleaning out clutter, spending more time with family and friends—we already know we should do these things in our normal lives. The same can be said for social media. The following are five resolutions for you to make that will bring your social media properties to the next level or just keep them shining bright. But don’t look for any surprises on this list…each of these are things you already know you should be doing!
