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The 36 Rules of Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

On the Road by Yacine Baroudi

#21: “Social media doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Make traditional media and social work together.”
Happy New year! Here’s a great infographic to refresh everybody’s memory of our brave new world’s rules of the road. Most of it head-nodding stuff but the piece is actually worth pinning to your wall.

Size Matters! Pinterest Hates Thumbnails

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Some social network sometimes by their very purpose generate a need that few really thought of crucial importance, consider what just happened.

I ran today into a @HuffingtonPost article tweeted by @TedCoine, titled “The End Of Capitalism — So What’s Next?” by Klaus Schwab (Founder & President of The Davos World Economic Forum). I first tried to share the article through Pinterest but surprise! I got a message that no large images were found in the article:

A Guide To The New Facebook Timeline (Infographic)

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On March 30th, Facebook will switch all profiles and pages to the new timeline display.
If you haven’t made the switch yet, your profile and page may show a “gaping hole” after that date and until you do.
Even if you have made the switch here’s a handy guide from the folks at iframe apps with some great tips.

@Twitter: Sure You Can Now Upload Images But You Won’t Know Squat!

Twitter Now Allows Direct image upload — FasTake

Twitter nevertheless keeps a tight fits on analytics and when you do share an image through Twitter you can say goodbye to the number of times your picture has been seen. This move will surely speak to the hurried folks and those not caring about analytics.

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Facebook | Videos Posted by FasTake: New Stoli Ad Features Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone [HQ] Exclusive VIDEO: New Stoli Ads Feature Twitter Co-Founder @Biz in Hot Biz-on-Biz Action Like or Fail? via/ Fast Company (tags: Twitter "Biz Stone" "TV ad" Stoli vodka engagement FasTake media+social new+media social+engagement)

Mexico’s Suppressed Find a Voice in Social Media

Mexico Social Media

Violence, media black out and watered down stories due to pressures from drug cartels and dozens of case of journalists murdered in Mexico; have caused many residents to turn to blogs and social media — such as YouTube and Twitter — for their news.

First ever Facebook Diploma from… Morocco

No idea where this comes from or how it’s used, it’s totally bogus but find it awesomely creative! Any ideas how this might be used? First ever Facebook Diploma from… Morocco, originally uploaded by FasTake.

links for 2010-10-05

Speed, Daughter of King Content and Queen Engagement Blogging has won! It wasn’t killed but emboldened, by social media. The latter is alive, well and here to stay as are SEO and search engines: Not a simpler landscape to deal with. So what are businesses looking to use the web for growth to do? Three… [Continue Reading]

Why Influence is Bliss but Not Popularity

Both Brian Solis‘ statements are very true but what is this rarity really? ‘Influence’ is one of, if not THE holy grail of social media. In plain English, social influence: it is the ability for a brand to make people do things they want them to do through using social tools. It is defined in the same… [Continue Reading]