
$100 to Message Mark Zuckerberg. Is Facebook Getting All Desperate, or Smart?
Charging users to message prominent users, without giving a cut of the share to these people, is a slippery slope.

Charging users to message prominent users, without giving a cut of the share to these people, is a slippery slope.

Let's take a closer look at this concept and how following Flickr's example could benefit your business!.

The online learning division of Mediabistro, WebMediaBrands, announced today the launch of a Master Certificate in Social Media Marketing. This online program aims to help digital marketers earn credentials through this educational program.

"It really is a new approach, and we're extremely excited," said Dave Jeffries, Senior Managing Partner of WPM.

Social media is used by many types of industries for various purposes. A survey published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research shows that US doctors use social media on a daily basis. Approximately one in four doctors do that to find out what’s new in the medical field. 500 oncologists and primary-care doctors were queried for this study, and the researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore found out that, apart from scanning medical information, 14% of doctors also offer new information via social media daily.

Admit it, you love attention. Attention means everything to you, be it for any legitimate reason and noble cause, or just because you are a so-called attention whore. Facebook has been made for catching people's attention - so why not hone your Facebook attention whoring skills using these tips.

Social media, as any other tool, can be used both to help, and to hurt people. In the past four years, the number of complaints police received about alleged crimes that were linked to Twitter and Facebook increased by 780%. As a direct result, around 650 people were charged last year.

Facebook recently released a new Feature called "Nearby" and as a result, the Yelp stock fell rather quickly. While Wall Street may not affect your business, if you can take advantage of these changes in social media to affect your business, you too can win.

For the first time in company history, Wikia exceeded 1 billion page views per month. This places the platform (which enables people around the world to discover, create and share content on pop culture) in the comScore top 100 both nationwide and internationally.

As if stealing our photos and trying to sell them to advertisers via its alter-ego Instagram wasn’t enough, Facebook has taken its relentless pursuit of profits to even more extreme levels - asking certain users to pay to send messages to ‘non-friends’ and ‘ensure’ they don’t end up being labeled as spam.