Posted on February 3, 2019 by Digital Signage Reporter

21 Popular Social Media Platforms – Important for GK, Computers (Dr. Manishika) Part 1 of 2

Dr. Manishika Jain explains 21 popular social media platforms – Important (GK, Computers)
Facebook
This is the biggest social media network on the Internet, both in terms of total number of users and name recognition. Founded on February 4, 2004, Facebook has within 12 years managed to accumulate more than 1.59 billion monthly active users and this automatically makes it one of the best mediums for connecting people from all over the world with your business.

Twitter
You might be thinking that limiting your posts to 140 characters is no way to advertise your business, but you will be shocked to know that this social media platform has more than 320 million active monthly users who make use of the 140 character limit to pass on information.

LinkedIn
Founded on December 14, 2002, and launched 0n May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is hands-down the most popular social media site for professional networking.

Google+
While it’s no Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, Google+ has its place among the popular social media sites. Its SEO value alone makes it a must-use tool for any small business.

YouTube
YouTube — the largest and most popular video-based social media website — was founded on February 14, 2005, by three former PayPal employees. It was later bought by Google in November 2006 for .65 billion.

Pinterest
Launched in March 2010, Pinterest is a relatively newcomer in the social media arena. This platform consists of digital bulletin boards where businesses can pin their content.

Instagram
Like Pinterest, Instagram is a visual social media platform. The site, launched on October 6, 2010, has more than 400 million active users and is owned by Facebook. Many of its users use it to post information about travel, fashion, food, art and similar subjects.

Tumblr
Tumblr is one of the most difficult to use social networking platforms, but it’s also one of the most interesting sites. The platform allows several different post formats, including quote posts, chat posts, video and photo posts as well as audio posts, so you are never limited in the type of content that you can share.

Flickr
Flickr, pronounced “Flicker,” is an online image and video hosting platform that was created by the then Vancouver-based Ludicorp on February 10, 2004, and later acquired by Yahoo in 2005.

Reddit
This is a social news and entertainment networking website where registered users can submit content such as direct links and text posts. Users are also able to organize and determine their position on the site’s pages by voting submissions up or down.

Snapchat
Snapchat is an image messaging application software product that was created by Reggie Brown, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy when they were students at Stanford University.

WhatsApp
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform instant messaging client for smartphones, PCs and tablets.

Quora
Capitalizing upon human curiosity is an ingenious idea that would lead to the creation and launch of Quora in June, 2009.

Vine
With over 40 million users, Vine is a rapidly growing video sharing social media app that allows users to share 6-second video clips with their followers.

Periscope
Periscope is a live video streaming mobile app that was developed by Joe Bernstein and Kayvon Beykpour.

BizSugar
BizSugar is a social networking platform and niche resource for small business owners, entrepreneurs and managers.

StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that finds and recommends content for its users. Come June 30, 2018, it will be moving to Mix. More than 25 million people use StumbleUpon for entertainment and information.

Delicious
This is a social bookmarking web service for discovering, storing and sharing web bookmarks. The site was founded by Peter Gadjokov and Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired in 2005 by Yahoo. By the end of 2008, Delicious claimed that it had bookmarked 180 million URLs and acquired more than 5.3 million users. The service was later sold to AVOS Systems in April 2011 who later sold it to Science Inc. In January this year, Delicious Media said that it had acquired the service.

Digg
Founded more than a decade ago (November 2004), Digg is a news aggregator with a curated front page that selects stories specifically for the Internet audience, The topics vary widely from trending political issues to science to viral Internet issues and anything in between.

Viber
Viber is a Voice over IP (VoIP) and instant messaging app for mobile devices that was developed and released by Viber Media on December 2, 2010.
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Posted on March 17, 2017 by Digital Signage Reporter

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Posted on January 9, 2017 by Digital Signage Reporter

Top 5 Social Media Channels for 2016

For any business to flourish regardless of size, social media plays a very important role these days. It’s proves to be a great platform to promote the brands online. These platforms are free to use, however, if you wish to reach more people then there are paid advertising options as well. However, here, you must understand that just to make your business visible, it doesn’t necessarily have to be on every social media platform. So, it’s vital that you select and develop the social platforms that help your business flourish. So, what could be the top social media channels for 2016? Of course, they are already popular among the youths and the masses, but what could be their fate in 2016 is the question to answer.

The criteria for determining the top 5 sites can vary depending on their popularity but the main criterion is the traffic or the number of users on each of these sites. Also, just because a social media site has a large number of users, doesn’t necessarily make it better than the others, as there are several smaller, niche social media sites that serve a smaller section of the population, but provide incredible user experience. Given ahead are the top 5 social media channels that are part of popular culture. Let’s take a look:

Top 5 Social Media Channels for 2016

Facebook
Today, Facebook is a giant in the social media space, both in terms of fame and the total number of users. It proves to be a great medium for connecting individuals all over the world with your business as there are more than 1.55 billion active users. It’s not that Facebook is the only biggest social media platform, but it definitely has more versatility in it. It’s been more than a decade since it launched, and Facebook has grown from being a simple website where youths could keep in touch into a multifaceted web and mobile social channel where anyone can connect with anyone.

Twitter
This is another social media platform where you can post primarily anything. This popular social platform lets you share short text updates (140 characters or less) in addition to the images, videos, polls, links and more. It’s a great medium to swiftly connect with people all around the world as you can easily interact with other users by mentioning their usernames in your posts. Due to its wide reach, Twitter is not just a great way to market your business but also an effective medium to handle customer service.

Tumblr
Many find Tumblr to be the most difficult social media platform to use for business purpose, but the fact is it’s also one of the most interesting networks. It lets several different post formats that include text posts, chat posts, audio posts, video posts, etc., so you don’t have any restriction with the type of content you share. This social platform hosts more than 200 million blogs and the majority of them are run by youth, which increases the chances for any SEO company in Mumbai to spread its business.

Instagram
This photo sharing social platform owned by Facebook has moved extremely fast among the popularity charts. Recently, Instagram was in news for it had its 400 millionth user and has gone above Twitter to take the second spot behind Facebook. Its rise has been quite phenomenal and is considered to be a high value social network which is loved by several celebrities globally.

Pinterest
This platform possesses digital bulletin boards where users can save and display content they like in the form of pins. Here users create and organize their boards by category. This social platform comes quite handy for any business offering SEO services in Mumbai as it’s very visually oriented and also fairly low maintenance in terms of post frequency. Also, there are several cool ways to use Pinterest to your business’s advantage.

Bal Rai is an Internet Marketing Consultant at eTrack Media, a leading internet marketing company in Mumbai
that provides best SEO services in Mumbai, web design and development services, website optimisation and social media management services to full-service marketing firms as well as end clients.

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Digital Signage Reporter

Digital Signage Content: Integrating Social Media Can Garner Attention and Build Interest

Here is a remarkable statistic published online by USA Today’s Technology Live website in October 2010. As of that date, there were 6.8 billion people in the world, 1.96 billion Internet users and 517 million Facebook users.

As Byron Acohido, author of the piece noted: “Put another way: about 7 percent of the world’s humans are on Facebook.” Just over a year later, Facebook notes on its statistics page that there are now 800 million active users of the social media network.

How many of those Facebook users carrying smartphones will visit somewhere that relies on a digital sign? One can only imagine the number for a particular venue. But consider this: Facebook’s statistics page says there are 350 million users who actively interact with Facebook via their smartphones. So it’s a pretty safe bet that the closer the demographics of the audience for a digital sign match those of typical mobile Facebook users, the more likely there’s a vast opportunity to be realized.

The likely proximity of a smartphone to a digital sign creates an important opportunity for anyone communicating via a digital sign who possesses a bit of an imagination and a willingness to experiment. Consider a noisy environment, such as a popular bar, dance club or even certain restaurants. Could designating on-screen real estate of a digital sign to a special Facebook page, give a business owner a way to help patrons connect with one another on screen and in so doing cut through the noise, attract the attention of customers and promote goods or services in other zones on the sign?

Leveraging social media in this way could be as simple as giving patrons a virtual bulletin board on which to post vetted observations and pictures or as complex as giving them a way to play bar games, like trivia, with one another. Imagination, budget and creativity would seem to be the only limitations.

The good news for small businesses looking to take advantage of this opportunity is many are already quite familiar and fluent with Facebook. According to the quarterly Merchant Confidence Index released in February 2011 by MerchantCircle, 70 percent of local merchants are using Facebook for marketing -up from 50 percent the preceding year. In fact, MerchantCircle, among largest social network of local business owners in the United States with more than 1.6 million members, found Facebook has passed Google as the most widely used marketing method for local merchants.

In addition to its wide use by local merchants, the rapid growth Facebook saw over the past year saw among merchants is positive. It appears to indicate local merchants have proven themselves to be quite willing to explore the potential of this social network. Thus taking the next step to integrate a Facebook page as digital signage content doesn’t seem to be too far of a stretch for merchants with a knack for the platform.

It’s also important to note that Facebook isn’t the only social media platform that can be leveraged for digital signage content. Twitter, too, easily fits into the same mold as a convenient way to let patrons publicly interact with one another on a digital sign via their smartphones. Like Facebook, Twitter also is familiar to local merchants. The Merchant Confidence Index found about 40 percent currently use the platform, which is up from 32 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009.

As business owners, outside creative agencies and internal graphics departments consider what digital signage content to present to the public, they would do well to remember that adding engaging, attention-grabbing element to their digital sign may be no further away than a Facebook page or Twitter account.

David Little is a charter member of the Digital Screenmedia Association with 20 years of experience helping professionals use technology to effectively communicate. For further digital signage insight from Keywest Technology, visit our website for many helpful tips and examples. For more in-depth research from Keywest Technology, download our free digital signage white papers and case studies.

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Digital Signage Reporter

Social Totem – Mucho más que Digital Signage, es ¡Social Media Photo Branding!

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Posted on January 30, 2015 by Digital Signage Reporter

Spontbox Extends Social Media Value with Digital Signage Solution

Toronto, Ontraio (PRWEB) November 18, 2014

Now available in the U.S. and Canada, the solution extends the use of existing social marketing resources, adding value to a company’s web content.

Since its soft launch in June 2014, Spontbox acquired nearly 50 clients. Spontbox creates an engaging TV channel for its clients using publicly available social media from product manufacturers and third party reviewers. This custom channel educates the consumer about new products and services and gives them a preview of their social experience as a subscriber to the client’s Facebook page or Youtube channel. Combined with customizable media feeds from reputable entertainment and news sources, Spontbox strengthens its clients’ social outreach.

“Many companies have a wealth of content already posted to social media channels that for one reason or another does not find the appropriate audience.” Spontbox founder Mo Nasseri said of his motivation to start the company. “Much of this social content never reaches their consumer base. Our technology parlays this existing content into digital signage for display within a business to maximize the impact and visibility of its social media efforts.”

Initially targeting dealerships, Spontbox has gained traction in the automotive industry. The company plans to grow with the rebounding U.S. automotive market, which saw a 50% increase in manufacturing sales from 2009 to 2013. Spontbox’s social channel increases consumer awareness of ongoing promotions and news from carmakers, providing benefits to dealerships over traditional TV programming.

Nasseri intends to expand the reach of Spontbox’s technology. The solution offers benefits to any industry where customers spend time shopping or waiting for service, such as hospitals, corporate lobbies, malls, and other retail stores. Accordingly, the company plans to extend its marketing efforts to retail and service providers in the future.

Spontbox is an international SaaS provider for social media digital signage. The company currently supports Facebook and Youtube, but will soon expand its offerings to include Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram. The company capitalizes on social media trends to increase the impact of its clients’ social marketing resources. Spontbox uses digital display to simplify social visibility and engage consumers, while strengthening clients’ brand image. With its latest technology solution, Spontbox streamlines content from multiple social channels to turn customers into “followers.”

Visit Spontbox.com or follow the company on Facebook to learn more about Spontbox technology benefits and pricing.

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Digital Signage Reporter

Wyndstorm Corporation Presents Secure Social Networking at National Religious Broadcasters Convention: Premier Digital Media Provider, Wyndstorm Corporation (Booth 629) Introduces Secure Interactive Social Media for Family Value Programming

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (PRWEB) March 10, 2008

With exponential growth in social networks in all consumer interest groups (over 230 million users as of 2007, Forrester Research), faith-based organizations are actively looking for cost-effective ways to expand their channels to reach, recruit, and retain their congregations and communities. The days of traditional marketing methods are over. To compete and grow strong communities, it is essential to create an online experience where members can share information, connect, and have access to content.

At this conference, Wyndstorm will demonstrate how technology and online marketing dramatically improve results for organizations wanting to build lasting relationships between community members; create strong support communities; and engaged constituents in the market. The Wyndstorm turn-key solution provides community and faith-based organizations with pre-built, proven applications, including social networking, podcasts, profiles, interactive games, 3-D virtual environments, and audio-visual chat. Over 50 user-friendly, fun, and safe features are available for Web-based outreach in religious sectors.

“Having built both start-up and large-scale social platforms, Wyndstorm understands the special needs of the religious and faith-based community. Our end-to-end solution combines the robust power needed to grow a high-traffic site with the ease of use features needed to attract diverse users, whether they be teenagers or senior citizens,” said Marian Sabety, President and CEO of Wyndstorm. “Wyndstorm’s social media environment is tailor-made, affordable, easy-to-manage, and safe. Site security is a priority. Wyndstorm uses effective techniques for keeping members of social networks safe, including ‘fencing’ to keep out site-crashers, and ‘positive identification’ to ensure predators are unable to pose as someone they are not. We can even track keywords in order to moderate the tone of site communications,” said Sabety.

“Today, communication, connectivity, and rich content are vital online considerations for all religious and faith-based organizations,” Sabety continued. “We are thrilled to be a part of this important niche segment event to share ways to enhance a religious community’s strength and presence in their market. We are pleased to present our services and expertise at NRB 2008, a group that respects and supports family value programming.”

About Wyndstorm Corporation

Wyndstorm Corporation provides end-to-end social network technology and online marketing services. The company designs, builds and hosts social media, multi-user gaming, online entertainment, and ecommerce Web properties. Utilizing pre-built and custom applications, Wyndstorm provides Web 2.0 technologies for online destinations with 3-D virtual platforms, adver-gaming, interactive entertainment, and social network-based viral marketing opportunities. Wyndstorm Corporation trades on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol, PKCM/OTC.BB. For more information, go to http://www.wyndstorm.com.

The information contained in this press release contains “forward-looking statements,” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. A forward-looking statement is one which is based on current expectations of future events or conditions and does not relate to historical or current facts. These statements include various estimates, forecasts, projections of Wyndstorm’s future performance, statements of Wyndstorm’s plans and objectives, and other similar statements. Forward-looking statements include phrases such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “predicts,” “estimates,” “assumes,” “projects,” “may,” “will,” “will be,” “should,” or similar expressions. Although Wyndstorm believes that its current expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, it cannot assure that the expectations contained in such forward-looking statements will be achieved. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in such statements. Investors should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release, as they speak only as of the date of this press release, and Wyndstorm expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to publicly release any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein.

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Digital Signage Reporter

Wyndstorm Corporation Rolls Out Virtual 3-D Party Scene for Beta Tests: 3-D Worlds, Avatars Become Backdrop for Kisses, Flirts, Audio-Visual Chats in New Lifestyle Entertainment Platform from Social Media Marketing Company Wyndstorm Corporation

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) March 17, 2008

“RipLounge illustrates the value of Wyndstorm’s end-to-end solution,” said Marian Sabety, President and CEO of Wyndstorm. “When Stable Media approached us in September 2007 to build an entertainment platform, we offered them program design development, hosting and content management, as well as our online marketing expertise in order to build out their cool online destination where friends can hang-out and have fun together. RipLounge represents a new breed of networks, taking social media solutions to a new level,” Sabety continued.

Unlike other 3-D virtual worlds, RipLounge doesn’t require users to download any software. It provides a target market of 25- to 40-year-old social media users much more than a static profile. Instead, users get a sleek, interactive online experience of free virtual worlds, such as a swanky nightclub, beaches, and yachts, where they can meet, dance, flirt, kiss, hold-hands, and audio-visual chat. Via personalized 3-D animated avatars, users can invite friends to join the interactive social environment. RipLounge will showcase independent music artists, some of whose tracks will be available for download and play back. Advertisers will benefit from the targeted in-scene advertising, as well as the flexible profile-based data, available throughout RipLounge. Over the upcoming months, RipLounge will be expanded with new scenes and additional features for enriched member experiences.

“We are pleased to see the RipLounge project move to production,” said Andrew Stern, co-founder of Stable Media. “This has been a strong collaborative effort. Wyndstorm provided disciplined project development and deep technical expertise to drive this program to success, and we applaud the Wyndstorm team in reaching this key launch moment,” said Stern.

“RipLounge was designed to take social networking to the next level,” said David Abelson, co-founder of Stable Media. “Advertisers can choose how they want to be seen within the community. We’re trying to break away from the typical ad placements that users are not engaging in. We want to follow the lead of television and film in their ability to effectively advertise through product placement and content integration which enhances brand exposure while maintaining the integrity of the user experience,” Abelson added.

RipLounge is scheduled to open its doors April 1 and will debut to digital world at the Ad:Tech San Francisco trade show April 15 to 17.

About Wyndstorm Corporation

Wyndstorm Corporation provides end-to-end social network technology and online marketing services. They design, build and host social media, multi-user gaming, online entertainment, and ecommerce Web properties. Utilizing pre-built and custom applications, the company provides Web 2.0 technologies for online destinations with 3-D virtual platforms, adver-gaming, interactive entertainment, and social network-based viral marketing opportunities. Wyndstorm Corporation trades on OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol, PKCM.OTC/BB. For more information, go to http://www.wyndstorm.com.

About Stable Media, LLC

Stable Media, LLC is committed to creating a unique and innovative platform by which users can take social networking to the next level. With the development of RipLounge, Stable Media asserts itself as a leader in the production of revolutionary and engaging online communities. Combining music with nightlife in a 3-D online destination, Stable Media provides advertisers (and investors) with a dynamic interface for reaching targeted key demographics. No other site on the Internet offers a life-like, yet easy-to-use community, and Stable Media is dedicated to providing users with a world-class site that allows them to interact in broad, new ways.

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Digital Signage Reporter

Widget Delivers Fast, High Impact Social Media Digital Marketing Campaigns at Low Cost

Washington, DC (PRWEB) September 4, 2008

The pressure is on for marketing departments and advertising agencies to deliver fast, measurable results on social media campaigns – on a budget. While digital marketing spend is projected to double from 2007 to 2009, the tight economy is causing marketers to heavily scrutinize their spending priorities. Enter Wyndstorm Corporation (http://www.wyndstorm.com) (OTC/BB: WYND), the ideas to revenues social media company, and its social media widget, Socialframes™, delivering 3D virtual world experiences that engage users, encourage social interaction and the viral growth of campaigns, and maximize return on advertising investment.

“We’re taking a really hard look at Socialframes as it’s a very innovative and cost-effective approach to social media,” says Katarzyna Warzecha, New Business Director-Central&Eastern Europe, Avon. “This is just the kind of social media application that would bolster the success of our new media programs, and for a price about a tenth of the cost that you’d expect from a widget that is so feature rich.”

As marketing around the Olympic games demonstrates, a variety of major brands, such as Kleenex and Speedo, have upped their digital marketing spend – in the case of Speedo to 100 percent of spend on digital marketing and public relations.

But, as Marian Sabety, president and CEO of Wyndstorm Corporation notes: “You don’t have to be a major brand or even spend like one to participate in the social media advertising trend. You do have to know how to select effective digital marketing solutions, have the right creative, and be able to leverage social media for its viral potential,” says Sabety. “It helps the marketing budget to use customizable, turn-key social media solutions that can go to market with speed and precision.”

Wyndstorm’s Socialframes is such an application – an innovative social media virtual worlds application in the form of a widget, a small snippet of code that can easily be added to a Website or an end user’s social media site, such as Facebook or MySpace. Socialframes delivers a compelling user experience that encourages viral growth, better reach, branding promotions, community member loyalty, and total user engagement with social interaction among friends and advertising video and content.

In Socialframes, users explore, play with friends, and interact in the virtual world with 3D avatars, AV-chat, and interactive gaming options. In the background of this virtual world, marketers serve up contextual, targeted in-screen advertising in multiple forms, including video and hotlinks. On the back-end, marketers can access a variety of reports and metrics, including user data and behavior, and analyze interests among user social groups. The room collection currently includes: a coffee shop, a restaurant, a travel destination, street entertainment venues, a travel information center, and a movie cinema – all tailored to the marketing needs of a campaign and user interests.

“Socialframes offers marketers the ability to serve up marketing content into a dynamic virtual world with features that are earning us praise in front of all kinds of marketers,” says Sabety. “If household name companies like Johnson & Johnson are getting into the social media space, why not your company?”

About Wyndstorm Corporation

Wyndstorm Corporation is the ideas-to-revenues company, providing end-to-end social network technology and online marketing services. They design, build and host social media, multi-user gaming, online entertainment, and ecommerce Web properties. Utilizing pre-built and custom applications, the company provides Web 2.0 technologies for online destinations with 2.5D virtual platforms, advergaming, interactive entertainment, and social network-based viral marketing opportunities. Socialframes™, a destination 2.5D interactive widget utilizes interactive entertainment and profile-based in-scene media push, is an example of the strong value applications Wyndstorm offers. Wyndstorm Corporation trades on OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol WYND. For more information, go to http://www.wyndstorm.com.

The information contained in this press release contains “forward-looking statements,” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. A forward-looking statement is one which is based on current expectations of future events or conditions and does not relate to historical or current facts. These statements include various estimates, forecasts, projections of Wyndstorm’s future performance, statements of Wyndstorm’s plans and objectives, and other similar statements. Forward-looking statements include phrases such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “predicts,” “estimates,” “assumes,” “projects,” “may,” “will,” “will be,” “should,” or similar expressions. Although Wyndstorm believes that its current expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, it cannot assure that the expectations contained in such forward-looking statements will be achieved. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in such statements. Investors should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release, as they speak only as of the date of this press release, and Wyndstorm expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to publicly release any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein.

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