Here we are for another fresh news of Facebook this January 2014! Just recently jarred a news that Facebook Starts Showing Fewer Text Status Updates From Pages, More From Friends posted on TechCrunch. The official Facebook blog post is here. We can clearly see that News Feed is such a core important Facebook feature that they’ve been improving in, just like Google Search algorithm. When you logged in to Facebook, the first thing you see is News Feed of your friends’ updates. Facebook team studies the effect of text status updates between friends and pages. They did test by showing
Read more →Here at City Life Ant Team, our team uses a number of cloud-based apps or tools that increases our productivity for both individually and as a team. Now, what is cloud based applications? The word “cloud” nowadays refers to the Internet and application can be defined as the software that help us do specific tasks. For example, we used to purchase and download Microsoft Office then install it on desktop computers but with “cloud” there’s nothing to download or install, you simply connect to Internet and use the application on the cloud. To name a few, our team uses Google
Read more →I read an interesting article written by Barry Moltz, published by OpenForum. He argues that customers will be more difficult to please and in the same time, they will be more demanding as well! Here are 10 predictions of what will customer demand: Personalized customer service Ability to track orders and research history Swift response to tweets and Facebook posts Immediate shipment or quick delivery of a service Try and buy Social transparency Proactive customer service post-sale Value Information available 24/7 Be listened to, and heard Having read those, what do you think? They don’t look new for us but
Read more →Still getting the hangover feeling of Merry Christmas! Yet there is a very interesting story happened yesterday. An article about Google’s Investigating Rap Genius For Using Spammy SEO to Grow Traffic by Valleywag, most people view this as one of the biggest site that got a hit for its SEO ranking. It began by a Facebook campaign called Rap Genius Blog Affiliate that asked bloggers to add links to Rap Genius’ Justin Beiber pages in the bottom of their blog. This will of course increase backlinks to Rap Genius’ website. In exchange, their blog post will also get a massive
Read more →Very much like getting a blueprints ready before starting off a building construction, every business needs to get its social media strategy right before actually doing it. When it comes to opening your business in social media world, have a clear mindset that it is a unique and continuous marketing channels. Why we say so? We do print advertisement in newspapers and magazine and in this form of advertisement, most likely it is one-time off. Print medias have limitations to stay in consumer’s mind and memory unless the consumer initiate the action to recall that memory. With social media, there’s
Read more →Yesterday Facebook updated their blog with a post title What Increased Content Sharing Means for Businesses. Frankly speaking, it’s a relatively short post but has important meaning for businesses who are trying to reach and engage using Facebook Pages. Let’s dig it deeper, perhaps in layman language, what do they mean from both user and business perspective. Some of the key points are: 1. “News Feed has to be useful for people and we’re going to continue to improve it so that people have the best experience possible.” 2. “People are connecting and sharing more than ever. On a given
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