Fitocracy Users Come For The Gamification, But Stay For The Community + MORE

Ed Bussey, a British serial entrepreneur who has cut his teeth working at startups like ZYB (acquired by Vodafone) and figleaves.com (acquired by N Brown) in the past, has secured £1 million – roughly $1.5 million – in funding from Ariadne Capital and angel investors for his content creation and marketing venture Quill…

It’s no surprise that fitness gamification network Fitocracy is thriving — the company recently announced that it had surpassed 1 million users and has signed deals with personalities like the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
But the company recently received its latest honor as one of Time Inc’s 10 NYC Startups to Watch…

Did you know that 15 percent of U.S. mobile internet time is spent entirely on social networking sites? Or that social media lead conversion rates are 13 percent higher than the average lead conversion rate?
What if I told you that 36 percent of marketers have found a customer via Twitter, that companies with more than 1,000 Twitter followers generate (on average) 800 new website visitors each month or that social media produces almost double the marketing leads of trade shows, telemarketing, direct mail or PPC?
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This is a guest post by Bill Clerico, the CEO of payment processing service WePay.
Social media has created a vast amount of data and every second we add more information. Consider that in a single day we send 400 million tweets, share 985 million pieces of content on Facebook, “like” 50 million brands or organizations on Facebook, and post 40 million photos on Instagram…

Are you looking for some creative ways to use Pinterest? Would you like to make stronger connections with your customers? Although many brands run creative contests on Pinterest, here are some new ways to engage audiences and build your presence. Take a look at what these 3 brands are doing to get inspiration for using […

Five years ago Mashable started covering the intersection of technology and social change. We held the first Social Good Summit to open up the conversations that take place during the United Nations General Assembly to anyone and everyone with a digital connection.
Since then, millions of people around the world participate in the Social Good Summit each September…