Social Media

Sponsored Stories On Facebook: The Lowdown

March 12th, 2012

At digital marketing agency Intergage, I will never forget the day that I changed my Facebook profile settings from “Engaged” to “Married” – there was an almost instantaneous change in targeted adverts from lovely wedding venues and spa packages – to depressing weight loss advice and tempting plastic surgery special offers! Such is the ironic brilliance of Facebook’s targeted advertising! Continue reading →

Quick Formatting Shortcuts For Google+ Stream

March 9th, 2012

At digital marketing agency Intergage, I have noticed some great, simple tip’s for formatting your Stream post’s in Google+.

To format the text you write in your Google+ Stream, simple enclose the single word or sentence with the following symbols. For example Continue reading →

The Google Vision After Privacy Policy Change

March 1st, 2012

At the end of January this year Google announces a big change in its privacy policy. Like many of us this information was accepted as trusted from such a source as Google and when asked the question when signing into any Google product, like me you probably just click ‘accept’. Continue reading →

Pinterest For Business

February 27th, 2012

If you’ve not come across Pinterest yet then allow us to introduce you – Pinterest is a new image centric social network that’s taking the Internet by storm. It’s the fastest growing social media site on the web with some staggering statistics. Continue reading →

Google+ Author Information In Search Results

February 21st, 2012

You might have noticed some author information appearing in Google search results recently. Usually this takes the form of a picture of the author, their name (hyperlinked to their Google+ profile). Additionally if you’re signed in to Google+ an option to ‘Add to Circles’ which is the equivalent of following someone on Google+ . If you’ve not come across this then try doing a search for “Matt Cutts” (head of Google’s web spam team). Continue reading →