Social Media Hedlines

Tumblr is on the cusp of doing something quite incredible. Google searches mentioning the service are poised to surpass searches for 'blog' by the end of the year, showing that the New York-based company has truly established itself as the Web’s most popular blogging platform.

Comparing the two terms, ‘blog’ is currently ahead — as you can see here – http://bit.ly/J3x5EH -but XKCD blogger Randall Munroe [via TPM - http://bit.ly/HPDkZL ] believes that ‘Tumblr’ will see more Google searches by October 12 this year.

Google search numbers are not an exact statistic, but the content of searches does indicate the popularity and interest in services, people and topics online. While it’s true to say that a great many blog readers go straight to sites via Twitter, RSS feeds, emails and other links, Tumblr’s continued rise is massively significant.

If you are a business or individual with a blog that you want to be found online, then running it, or another, on Tumblr is likely to bring you more traffic.

The business world has been largely unsure of how to cater for Tumblr — which is shareable and fast-paced as Twitter but populated with more inspiring text and rich images — and this is likely to be a wake-up call for them.

Not sure where to start with Pinterest?

These 64 pointers will help inside this Infographic - http://bit.ly/IlvUO1 ;

We have been testing out one of the first Pinterest services, Pinerly - http://bit.ly/HGNWra , during their private beta.

During their short beta, Pinerly has already started to see some trends on what is now the 3rd most popular social network in the US.

They pulled together this Infographic with some interesting insights - http://bit.ly/Hv08Al - for marketers on how to post to Pinterest for better results.

A few highlights: http://bit.ly/Hv0ebg ;

a. Pinning late at night, past 8pm, is successful
b. Writing a description for each pin is key
c. Use popular boards with high subscriber numbers

By Jason Keath - http://bit.ly/xAJGfi ;

This fun Infographic, compares business blogging with Facebook and builds a case as to why blogging is the better marketing strategy and was inspired by David Letterman's 'Top Ten' shows why business blogging is better than Facebook marketing. Check it out!

If you’re not blogging, you’re missing out on some important business benefits! In addition trying to build your own brand on someone else’s territory is always risky.

Going by Patricia Redsicker's - http://bit.ly/xPDu0z - own experience, here are 10 reasons why business blogging is better than Facebook: http://bit.ly/GPUqG0 ;

The value of Triberr and why Bloggers need to join the community. That's the right question! Maybe you should also join this very interesting community. [note mg]

I wrote a post last year that included Triberr called 5 Social Media Favorites from 2011. Today I wanted to take a deeper dive and try to undercover why more bloggers are not using this valuable platform.

Triberr is self described as a website for bloggers interested in increasing their reach. This reach is increased via tweets on Twitter. Triberr is so much more. It all starts at the top with Dino Dogan and Dan Cristo.

Dino is the entertaining and charismatic voice of Triberr, while Dan is more technical in nature coding away and continuously answering questions. These guys care. They care about you and your blog getting more exposure. They continue to work feverishly to provide a great environment and community. So, why aren’t you on Triberr???

Read more: http://geeklesstech.com/bloggers-why-arent-you-on-triberr/

Your Facebook fan page will automatically convert to the new Timeline design on March 30.

Mari Smith - http://bit.ly/GHNw4S - walks you through key elements you need to know...

One of the biggest feature changes that many businesses are upset about is the removal of a default landing tab.

The good news is you can still have custom tabs, plus the like-gating element still functions.

You just can’t set a default landing tab.

However, each of your apps still has its own unique URL. That means you can drive traffic to any “landing” page you wish – from within Facebook via ads, your profile and other places as appropriate; and from outside Facebook on your website/blog, other social profiles, tweets, email campaigns, email signature files, and so forth.

To keep you on track with the change, here’s a list of 21 key points about the new Timeline design:  http://bit.ly/GHO2jg ;

“When is the best time for me to Tweet?”

Tweriod & Buffer have teamed up to help you tweet at optimal times inside Buffer.

So how do you get "your" best times to tweet in Tweriod? http://bit.ly/HDdk3P ;

In other words when your tweets will have optimal exposure and when your followers are online.

Tweriod calculates this from your twitter profile's timezone and from the first 5000 of your followers and when they are online.

Here is a quick breakdown of the key Tweriod components: http://bit.ly/HDdSXv ;

* Analyse the performance of your past 200 Tweets

* Analyse your followers and their past Tweets

* Exclude automation apps such as Twitterfeed, dlvr.it, etc.

* Get different suggested schedules for different days

From there you can connect to buffer from your dashboard and submit the calculated optimal times with your buffer account.

As you can see from my schedule, I need to be up all night to reach my followers, or alternatively would appreciate a buffer bookmarklet on scoop.it accounts - http://bit.ly/HDeKeI ;

Data about Pinterest is sparse because they've been slow to release their API, but search engine APIs were utilized to pull some data about the trendy social site.

Dan Zarella - http://bit.ly/IF8KCQ - gathered information from over 11,000 pinned images and did some analysis to create this Infographic:

http://bit.ly/IF8Zhj ;

This data should be useful for Pinterest users who’d like to get more repins on the images they’ve pinned, as well as content producers who want their content pinned and repinned more.