Category Archives: Social

Travel + Leisure Announces 2nd Annual SMMITTY Award Winners

Travel + Leisure has announced the winners of its second annual SMMITTY awards. SMMITTY stands for Social Media’s Most Innovative Travel + Tourism awards, and as to be expected, the magazine has given its award…

High Klout Score = Perks at American Airlines

American Airlines is deeming high Klout scorers worthy of its posh Admirals Club, free of charge. If you don’t know what a Klout score is, you probably don’t have a very high one, so don’t…

Yahoo Buying Tumblr for $1.1 Billion

It’s 12:30 p.m. on Monday, so it’s probably old news to you already, but I’ll say it anyway: Yahoo is buying popular social blogging site, Tumblr, for a whopping $1.1 billion. AllThingsD.com initially broke the…

Infographic Alert: Social Sharing Boosts Email Marketing Results By 158%

According to a new infographic from GetResponse, email still converts better than social media marketing (or search for that matter), what really works is combining them. By adding social sharing icons to email marketing messages…

Facebook Introduces Emoticons; ‘Dislike’ Coming Soon

If you’re like me, you’ve often wished that Facebook had a “Dislike” button for posts that simply irritate you. Or maybe for those times when a sad event occurs in a friend’s life and you…