Chris Snider

The latest Iowa Poll shows Herman Cain and Mitt Romney in the lead two months before the Iowa caucuses. They are followed by Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry. But is that the way the social media world sees the candidates? Let’s see how the top candidates are tracking on Twitter and [...]

A custom Facebook page is a great way to show anyone who lands on your page exactly why they should click the Like button. And they are fairly easy to create if you know a little bit of HTML and CSS.

I’m building a presentation about managing Facebook pages, so I thought I would share some great resources I have found during my research process. 1. 10 Facts About Consumer Behavior on Facebook – This research by Constant Contact includes the top 5 reasons a user likes a brand on Facebook.

Does the number of likes a new TV show has (or doesn’t have) on Facebook correlate to the show being canceled? Let’s find out. There are 25 new shows starting soon on the five big networks. Here’s a look at how many likes each one has on Facebook.

The Des Moines Register launched it’s Groupon/Living Social-like daily deal site Deal Chicken today. And The Register is doing a nice job of promoting the site on its home page.

It’s officially been one year since I started tracking likes for the top newspapers on Facebook.

See the complete list of top TV stations on Facebook here.

The Contra Costa Times and Charleston Post and Courier were the biggest gainers in the latest look at the top newspapers on Facebook. July marked the 12th month I have been tracking this data (for most papers on the list). Next month, I will take a look at which papers had the greatest growth from [...]

I’ve added June numbers to my list of top newspapers on Facebook. The top 10 papers did not change, but there was some movement just outside the top 10. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser grew by 26.3% and jumped from No. 14 to No. 12. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch grew by 45.9% and jumped from No. 28 [...]

TV stations continue to put a lot of time and promotional dollars into driving fans to their Facebook pages. For proof, look at the increase in fans many stations saw from early April to late May in the list of top TV stations on Facebook. Fox 8 News in Cleveland grew by more than 100,000 [...]