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By Jeff Bullas I don’t know whether you have started to notice that a lot of people are wanting help with their cows and ducks on Facebook (and I am finding it a touch annoying as I am not fond of cows),this activity is due to a very popular online game called Farmville. What prompted me to write this list germinated when the few Farmville updates turned into a stream and then became a raging torrent. On Facebook you can actually turn this stream off in the settings section which is a good thing as I have stopped counting sheep when trying to go to sleep and started counting bovines… by the way Mashable have a post that shows you how to block those fascinating Farmville updates. For those of you who are statistically minded… the Facebook -platform game FarmVille has 80 million players . It’s been named social networking game of the year. It’s played by people young and old It’s bigger than Twitter. ) So what have the settings for controlling Farmville streams have to do wi...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Jeff Bullas I don’t know whether you have started to notice that a lot of people are wanting help with their cows and ducks on Facebook (and I am finding it a touch annoying as I am not fond of cows),this activity is due to a very popular online game called Farmville. What prompted me to write this list germinated when the few Farmville updates turned into a stream and then became a raging torrent. On Facebook you can actually turn this stream off in the settings section which is a good thing as I have stopped counting sheep when trying to go to sleep and started counting bovines… by the way Mashable have a post that shows you how to block those fascinating Farmville updates. For those of you who are statistically minded… the Facebook -platform game FarmVille has 80 million players . It’s been named social networking game of the year. It’s played by people young and old It’s bigger than Twitter. ) So what have the settings for controlling Farmville ...

By Jeff Bullas Only 10 years ago the social media manager role was not even a job or a career. It didn’t exist. Facebook was barely a year old and was still just a way for people to connect to other students online. The term social media marketing wasn’t in the lexicon. Fast forward a decade and every organization must have a social media manager, whether full time or part time. They need to be like a juggler at a circus and keep a lot of balls up in the air and make them all land safely. It requires skillsets which means managing many moving parts. Technical, analytical, creative with a bit of project management thrown in. Heard of the term “Ninja Geek”? Maybe “Creative technologist? So what does the life of a social media manager look like? It’s almost a 24/7 job. It means monitoring, managing, updating and being inspired by the clients and other sources. Here is a fun infographic that explains the ongoing tasks that keep the social manager busy! Infographic source: Visualista...

http://ift.tt/2vgQfED By Jeff Bullas Only 10 years ago the social media manager role was not even a job or a career. It didn’t exist. Facebook was barely a year old and was still just a way for people to connect to other students online. The term social media marketing wasn’t in the lexicon. Fast forward a decade and every organization must have a social media manager, whether full time or part time. They need to be like a juggler at a circus and keep a lot of balls up in the air and make them all land safely. It requires skillsets which means managing many moving parts. Technical, analytical, creative with a bit of project management thrown in. Heard of the term “Ninja Geek”? Maybe “Creative technologist? So what does the life of a social media manager look like? It’s almost a 24/7 job. It means monitoring, managing, updating and being inspired by the clients and other sources. Here is a fun infographic that explains the ongoing tasks that keep the social manager busy! Infograp...