Tweet LiveGO: LiveGO is a web dashboard that incorporates email, instant messaging and social media in one easy-to-use platform. After connecting LiveGO to your Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail/Yahoo!/AOL email accounts, users can get a combined view of all messages and updates in the dashboard screen, or they can choose each account individually to obtain the [...]
Tweet ifttt: This simple acronym is a very unique and useful tool for the social media user trying to synergize. ifttt stands for “if this then that,” and this free tool allows users to create certain scenarios within their online presence. For example, “If a friend tags me in a photo on Facebook, add that [...]
Tweet Chaptur: Chaptur is a simple, easy-to-use real-time search engine for staying up on the latest breaking news or simply following a news outlet. From the front page, all a user needs to do is type in his/her search term, and instantly real-time results appear that have been instantly indexed from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, RSS [...]
Tweet SOPA: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a bill that was introduced late last year in the House of Representatives that is aimed at protecting intellectual property on the Internet. Supporters of the bill cite its ability to improve the enforcement of copyright laws as well as protect Internet users against scams aimed [...]
Tweet Social Television: Social TV, simply put, is the combination of watching television while simultaneously engaging in conversations via social media. Tweeting or Facebooking about the shows we are watching was a trend on the rise during 2011 and is expected to continue to thrive as we move into 2012. Twitter has already begun to [...]
Tweet Flipboard: Flipboard is a social news app that integrates all of your social networks with the news that you want to follow. Released last year for the iPad and just last week for the iPhone, Flipboard provides a simple yet unique way to keep up with your social life and your news while seamlessly [...]
Tweet Quantcast: A while back, we discussed the importance of knowing how influential a website or blog is and how its visitor stats play a large role in that judgment. Quantcast is a very useful tool for measuring a site’s visitor numbers. Similar to Compete, Quantcast is a free tool that provides a quick snapshot [...]
Tweet Social Commerce: Predicted to be one of the hottest trends in social media for 2012, social commerce can be defined as the use of social media to assist in the online purchasing of products or services. Many companies have integrated a store app into their Facebook fan pages, allowing users to purchase products without [...]
Tweet Troll: Social media and the Internet have transformed the meanings of some seemingly ordinary words into something completely new. One of the more interesting cases of this is with the word troll. When thinking of the terms troll or trolling, most people imagine a mythical creature under a bridge or a relaxing morning fishing [...]
Tweet For the past 99 weeks, the Dodge Communications blog has served up a new term or phrase each Friday that we thought every healthcare marketer should be familiar with. These “Words of the Week” all pertain to social media or the Web in some way, and many of them have a direct connection to [...]