Social Media and Social Good

Must-Follow Community Managers in Asia Pacific (Philippines, Singapore, Hongkong, Indonesia, Malaysia) There may be several people who manage digital campaigns and are called with various names but if there’s one digital role which wear the most number of hats, it would be the community managers. These are your brand advocates, social media analysts, content creators and planners, listeners, community builders and many other roles. *(may and may often include: instant…

What Are the Elements That Make a Startup Successful? We all know Twitter as one of today’s most successful tech companies with over 500 million total users with more than 200 million active users (source). However, we know very little about how did it all started and what challenges did the founders have to face in order to get to where the company currently is. To be a successful startup,…

250,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked In a recent blog post by Bob Lord (@boblord), the Director of Information Security for Twitter, said that in the latest online attack, hackers may have gained access to information on a quarter of a million of its more than 200 million active users.   This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data. We discovered one live attack…

This infographic from Silverpop takes a look at the major players in social media – including those lucky enough to find themselves in the 100+ million user club – and provides some key statistics and growth data for twenty different channels. Aside from the global leaders, Asian social networking sites such as Weibo, RenRen and Badoo are not being left behind when it comes to the total number of userbase….

Recently, Linkedin stopped allowing users to link their Twitter feed to appear on their profile page. While there hasn’t seemed to be too much of a backlash yet, there are also important lessons that can be taken from the split. Social media has become a big integration into our lives, but often the line is blurred between what’s professional, what’s strictly private, and if the two can co-exist. The truth…