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    8 Creative Ways Posterous Groups Can Bring People Together

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    Are you looking for an easy way to foster internal social communications at your company? Perhaps you're seeking a simple way to build a community with your customers?

    Here's the good news: A new (and free) tool may be just the solution you're looking for.
    Looking for Something New?
    Collaboration, innovation and communication—all three have become corporate buzzwords. But they are also critical components to any company's success. These are three areas where organizations are constantly looking for new ideas and social media tools are

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    How to Turn Your Email Into a Social Media Hub With Posterous

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    In the world of social media, it's easy to become overwhelmed in a sea of profiles and status updates. With so many services and so little time, wouldn't it be nice if posting to your social media profiles was as simple as sending an email? With Posterous, it is.

    Posterous allows you to post to 20 or so social media platforms via email. Posting to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, even YouTube and Picasa is as simple as sending an email. And we're not talking simple text-based posts either.

    With Posterous, you can create full-screen photo

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    7 Ways Posterous Improves Your Social Media Presence

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    Posterous is a social media platform where it's very easy to post just about anything—photos, videos and words.  You can set up your account and publish content simply by sending an email. Yes it's that simple!

    Posterous is known as the most “social” networking place of social media. It's also the ideal solution for sharing content that's too long for a tweet and too short for a blog post.

    There are many different reasons and motivations to create a free Posterous account. Let’s have a look at the 7 most common reasons for businesses to

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    Twitter Ads API: This Week in Social Media

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    Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

    To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
    What's New This Week?
    Twitter Officially Launches Their Ads API: "What this means is that as marketers, you'll soon have the ability to work with Twitter's initial set of Ads API partners to manage Twitter Ad campaigns—and integrate them into your existing cross-channel advertising strategies."
    Twitter's Ads API is here: What it means for marketers adage.com/u/Y18ojb

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    31 Must-Read Social Media Blog Posts

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    What were the best social media articles you read in the last 12 months?

    Did you find any particularly useful for your business?

    We asked our writers to share their favorite social media blog posts.

    Here are 31 blog posts worth exploration.
    #1: The 16 Most Important Social Media Updates of 2012

    This post includes some major updates to the top social media networks this year. Although I feel I'm usually on top of the latest social news, there were a few things I had missed that were covered in this post for Facebook and

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    How to Promote Your Blog With Social Media

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    Are you looking to use social media to promote your blog?

    Sharing your blog posts on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and even Tumblr can help your content gain significant exposure.

    But each social media platform is distinct with different benefits and abilities. You need a simple process to tailor your social sharing to generate as much engagement as you can on each of these platforms.

    Here's a process you can use to ensure your posts get maximum mileage. Consider these steps and adapt them to the social

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    Facebook Events Enhanced: This Week in Social Media

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    Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
    What's New This Week?
    Facebook Updates Events Interface: Several changes make Facebook Events easier to use. There's more flexibility when creating an Event and it's easier to find an option to create a Facebook Event for your particular needs. There are also changes to the Event pages including the wall only allowing comments from people who say they're attending or might

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    26 Tips for Writing Great Blog Posts

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    Do you blog? Feel like you're trying to reinvent the wheel time and again?

    Looking for some ideas to simplify your content creation process?

    What follows are 26 tips, from A-Z, to help you create optimal blog posts every time you sit down to write.
    #1: Anatomically Correct
    A blog post contains several areas that require our attention and care. Pamela Seiple refers to six parts of the anatomy of a lead-generating blog post:

    Eye-catching title
    In-text links to landing pages
    Sidebar/banner calls to action
    Social sharing

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    Major Facebook Enhancements: This Week in Social Media

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    Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
    What's New This Week?
    Facebook Adds Subscribe Feature to Personal Profiles: You can now allow people to subscribe to your updates on your Facebook personal profile (think Twitter follow).  This gives your friends control over what they see from you.  People who are not your friends can also subscribe (subscribers only see things you share publicly). When people subscribe,

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    44 Useful Mobile Apps for Social Media Marketers

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    Are you spending more time each day using your smartphone or iPad? Looking for some cool apps to simplify your work and life?

    According to a recent study by Flurry, consumers spent 81 minutes per day using mobile apps, compared to 74 minutes of web surfing. Here's where it gets even more interesting. Social networking is one of two categories that dominate mobile app usage with 32% and games are responsible for 47%.
    In Search of Apps
    As a social media marketer, you'll likely want to find apps that will help you keep up with social

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    26 Tips for Using Images to Engage Fans and Followers

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    You've heard this: "A picture is worth a thousand words." But can it actually help you engage with customers and prospects?

    In this post, I'll share ways you can ensure your images provide the best experience they can; ones that will help keep the conversation flowing.

    Among the topics covered in this post are tools, tips and strategies that can be used to enhance the visual representation of your business.

    As I've done in the other posts in the 26 Tips series, this post provides an easily digestible A-Z guide to which you can return

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    9 Ways to Transform Your Website Into a Social Media Hub

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    Should your website be social? Are you looking to turn that static website into an interesting social media–enabled destination?

    Keep reading to discover how.
    Should Your Site Be Social-Enabled?
    There's no doubt that social media is a powerful marketing and communication tool for businesses and non-profits that have embraced it.

    Yet, for most of us, our websites are still where the rubber meets the road. It's where you turn visitors into leads and prospects into customers. It's where you build your lists and sell your goods.

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    22 Hot New Social Media Tools Worth Exploring

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    Are you looking for the hottest new social media tools and services? We asked our team of Social Media Examiner writers to share their best new social media discoveries.

    What follows is an amazing list of social media tools you've likely never heard of—covering a wide range of categories:

    Tools for pictures, video, audio and screen capture
    Tools to measure and track results
    Tools to manage content
    Blogging tools
    Twitter tools
    Other social media tools

    Try them out. And be sure to report back here with your thoughts.

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