Tag: Facebook
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Facebook’s Privacy Concerns: What Businesses Need to Know
Facebook is embroiled in a firestorm of criticism – and down $80 billion in market value to boot – after the fallout widens from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It’s prompting brands like Playboy and Tesla to close their platform business accounts – but companies of all sizes should understand the latest developments before clicking delete…
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Social Splendor: Sam’s Club Launches Facebook Messenger “Gift Genie”
Talk about Santa’s Little Helper! Retail giant Sam’s Club launched its Facebook Messenger bot today to help customers find gifts for friends and family. Called the gift genie, the bot gives users the choice to shop by category or by chooses 10 initial items for the man, woman, child, or pet in your life. The…
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The crappy 360-degree videos you’re seeing on Facebook are giving virtual reality a bad name — Quartz
Many are declaring 2016 to be the year of virtual reality. There are multiple virtual reality headsets rolling out this year, and Samsung gave away its Gear VR headset to anyone that preordered its newest smartphones. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, which owns VR company Oculus, thinks we’ll all be wearing VR headsets at… via…
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What’s YOUR Reaction to Facebook Reactions?
The long awaited, totally re-designed Like Button is here. It’s called Facebook Reactions, an expansion of the “Like” feature, with six distinct new options that you can choose in addition to “Liking” a post. These are: Love, Haha, Yay, Wow, Sad, and Angry. In our opinion here at The Social Campfire, these are literally the…
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What’s New at The Social Campfire?
This year is dubbed the Year of the Monkey – and we totally know why! We can tell this year is going to be exciting, surprising, and full of energy. There are a lot of new developments at TSC and we’d like to share a few with you:
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Facebook’s Safety Check Feature and Paris Attacks
Our thoughts, prayers, and condolences go out to the victims and families of last Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris. We stand with you. May peace prevail and may your hearts be healed. After several moments of shock and silence on Friday evening, it finally registered within my consciousness, a nightmare in reality – the City…
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The Power of the Hashtag for Business Beginners
When it comes to social media, the #hashtag is one of the most powerful – and most misunderstood – tools in the industry. At this stage in the social media game, many people still don’t know how to harness and utilize the hashtag – especially for business. You’ve heard of the hashtag and you’ve heard…
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The Difference Between Inbound Marketing and Outbound Marketing – and Why It Matters
Inbound Marketing and Outbound Marketing are two distinctively different entities, and they may be described to you in unique ways based on the person you’re speaking to. Some say that Outbound Marketing is the “old fashioned” way of doing things, and Inbound Marketing is the present and future of the industry. Others describe Outbound Marketing…
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I Love Your Product – The Rise and Power of the Social Consumer
When I was a kid, one of my whimsical grown-up fantasies was to have the job of taste tester. A school film documented the daily lives of the fast food and ice cream taste tester, whose one job was to master the heart of flavor one bite or sip at a time. It didn’t sound like…
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10 Reasons Why Social Media Marketing is Essential to Today’s Small Business
Small businesses are still wondering why social media marketing matters. Whether your company is B2B or B2C, you can and will benefit from social media to help drive your sales and marketing efforts. My theory is that once small businesses understand the impact that social media can have on their target audience, their current customers,…
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Join our Newest Social Hubs!
We’d like to Invite *YOU* to Join The Social Campfire on our newest Social Communities: Instagram Our Instagram account @SocialCampfire is igniting the platform with a look into the daily life of TSC and Founder and President Jess Dawkins, along with company and client updates and features, inspirational quotes, gorgeous Florida-centric images, and more! Click…
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The Evolution of Social Media: A Positive Experience for the Anxious
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are great outlets for the socially anxious, shy, and introverted. A look at how the Internet and Social Media have evolved to become an outlet for the socially anxious.
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