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LinkedIn is one of the biggest social networks out there as at the 21st December LinkedIn estimate that they have around 187 million members. It’s been a busy year for the professional community based company, including launching new profile pages and a new homepage.

2012 has seen a good deal of growth for LinkedIn and has seen an 87% increase in users over the last 20 months. Here I take a look at some of the most interesting content that has been published …

I get quite a bit of traffic to my Facebook timeline post, so i thought it might be good to show you this neat infographic from Hubspot called the ’6-Step Cheat Sheet to the Facebook Business Page Timeline Design’.

One of the main aspects that initial allowed Facebook to move and stay ahead of other social networks is the fact that Facebook is a very adequate gaming platform. Although research suggests that Facebook is fading as a gaming platform, it is clear that a unique relationship between gaming and social networking exists, something which is evident when reading about the new Nintendo Wii U Miiverse.

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This is a fantastic infographic on the value that brands can achieve from videos and photos. MY favourite stat is wihtout doubt that Instagram is on pace to overtake Facebook’s growth!

Via Mbooth
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TED is the latest creation from Family Guy mastermind Seth Macfarlane. But this isn’t a post about how funny he is, although he IS hilarious!

I’ve been interested in the film since I first saw the trailer and I’ve also been intrigued as to the marketing in the build up to the films release. Let’s take a look at the online marketing lessons we can learn from TED:
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TED epitomises the type of content that I like to see on YouTube …

There are a number of social tools out there, offering different functions. Here we take a look at some of the tools available for Twitter.
Buffer
Buffer is an an app that I’ve been using with Twitter for some time now. It gives you the opportunity to schedule your tweets, which is great if you have a lot of things that you want to share but are concerned about overkill. Simply identify the items you want to share and add them to your Buffer feed, the …

Google launched brand pages in Google + back in November 2011, and figures for brand pages on the social network platform have been exploding ever since. This presumably has a lot to do with the fact that having a G+ profile can help to maximise your search results listing in Google thanks to Search Plus Your World, vital for many brands.

Here I take a look at 13 of the best looking Google Plus brand pages:

Amazon

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The 30th of March sees all existing brand pages on Facebook updated to the new timeline format. Profiles were updated back in February.

What does this mean for page owners? Well, first and foremost it means a new exciting way to display your brand and also the history of your brand. Secondly, we will likely witness the end of the “like gateway”. With timeline, visitors will see what your company is actually doing, you have less control over …

The Facebook Timeline was rolled out to everyone’s profiles back in February, since that initial launch it has also been published for all brands who have a page on Facebook.

With Timeline, you get cover photos which is a large image that sits at the top of your page/profile. Let’s take  a look at some of the most creative and amusing timeline cover photos, here is my top 5 (because 5 is a nice number),  interpreted to match the mood of days in a working week.

Monday – Rainy day, the start of …

Something which has been in the public eye for the ast couple of months is mental health. I saw the following infographic on Mashable on Friday which was created by Help For Depression. The infographic shows how we use the social network to share our feelings and the reaction that these statuses receive.

 The survey found that positive updates receive more likes, while …