Inspiring Social Media

Many were proclaiming trouble for Pinterest when the site started to show a drop in users.

Well, it has been quite a week for them which shows the insanity of making long term predictions about the end of the site at the first sign of a dip. It was inevitable that a dip would occur at some point given their staggering growth and market penetration.

If you were starting to doubt Pinterest, check out everything that’s come out of their HQ in the past few days.

PR Newswire reports that a study of releases on their wire service shows that:

*Adding a photo or an image increases views of the release by 14%.
*Adding a video gives you a 28% increase in views.
*Make that an image and a video and you’ll get a 48% boost in views.
*Go all the way and put in a photo, a video, a graphic and a download and you’ll see a 78% jump in the number of views!

In 2011 and 2012, Infographs (AKA Data Visualization) or Infographics have become one of the most interactive and “viral” forms of communication on the Internet!

Take a look at these 50 Reasons: http://bit.ly/Ilsb2W ;

Purveyors of heavy metal always seem to be obsessed with epic literature. Take Russell Allen of Symphony X.

A study about digital influence says Klout and other social media measurement tools don't define how users influence their networks.

Social media marketing is what most chief marketing officers (CMO) have at the top of their lists for spending increases this year and next.

A case study by online boutique Boticca.com showed that Pinterest users buy and spend more than their Facebook counterparts and brings more new visitors.

Girls may not run the world, but they dominate on the web.

When it comes to the demographic discrepancies of social media usage, we tend to think primarily about age. Young people, we assume, are Facebook addicts; older people, we assume, are Facebook-phobes. And while generational divisions have represented, and continue to represent, a primary division in the way Americans use social media, there's another important factor, as well: gender.

In a report released this morning, Nielsen found that women, overall, are . . .

Learn how to get more referral traffic using Pinterest and StumbleUpon. Find out which one is better for increasing your page views.

Pinterest now the THIRD most popular social media network beating LinkedIn and Tumblr http://t.co/e1aKL3MB...

Ileane Smith
One final example of someone who is putting the law of giving into practice is my friend Ileane Smith. Ms. Ileane is known for her comment love, retweets, and guest posts. She gives, gives, and gives some more. In return, she receives tons of support, comments, and retweets.

In an interview with Tom Shivers, Ileane shared her winning strategy on getting blog comments and building relationships. In short, comment on other people's blogs and be a friend to others.

Digital Influence is one of the hottest trends in social media and it is also one of the least understood. Klout, PeerIndex, Kred among many others are investing millions of dollars to understand how our social media activity translates into influence.

It has only been the last couple of years that infographics have become the go-to representation on the web for teaching an audience about the numerical, in a sleek and distributable format, which often goes viral when done right.