Social Media Earnings

Social media refers to the networks and digital tools that connect people in dialogue or interaction. So why aren’t public social media companies using the tools that they have created in their investor communications? There is an opportunity, with earnings season upon us, for public social media companies to engage socially with their investors.  It’s an ideal time for […]

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Academia.Edu Overhauls Profiles As The Onus Falls On Researchers To Manage Their Personal Brands

academia-profileEven though it’s taken for granted that you have to manage your own personal brand on the web, that still isn’t necessarily the case in the slower-moving world of academia.

But it’s starting to happen, with individual brands beginning to eclipse the importance of being published in a well-known (and often exorbitantly expensive) journal.

Academia.edu, a social network for professors and researchers, is taking advantage of this by overhauling its profile pages.

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Facebook’s Testing A Navigation Bar Layout With Notifications On The Right Near Ads And Gifts

4388396268_87224c6556_zFacebook likes to test things out on the live site, getting feedback in real-time. Sometimes, things make their way to some of your friends, but not to you. Some would call this an “inconsistent experience”, but I actually like how Facebook goes about this. I would personally like to see all of the new stuff that the company tests, from a journalist perspective…but hey, you can’t have everything.

A few tipsters are reporting to TechCrunch that they’re seeing a brand new layout for the toolbar on Facebook’s website. The new layout shows a complete swap for where the notifications, friend requests and messages sit.

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