Friday Five: Black Friday edition (timing social media posts, PR vs. marketing, lessons from Occupy)

A helping of leftovers from this past week’s cornucopia of Internet goodness:

1. When to post to social media. Good insights in this infographic. Most marketers post while they’re at work, but that isn’t when their audience is most likely to be engaged (during the off hours).

2. PR, marketing and the fight to control social media. This summary of a recent study from the PR-minded folks at Ragan Communications comes pre-loaded with the subhead, “A new study suggests PR pros need to fight harder for control of social media.” The actual study (PDF) is not quite as suggestive, but Ragan’s slant should help to keep those in the PR business in a tizzy about marketing’s involvement in social media. When will this PR vs. marketing power struggle end? Can’t marketing and PR just get along?

3. The PR lessons of the Occupy movement, by Bill Sledzik (@BillSledzik). Just one of many great, topical posts at Bill’s blog, Toughsledding.

4. The value of a liberal arts education is quantified (somewhat) by this recent study by the Annapolis Group. This InsideHigherEd.com story breaks it down. Hat tip to Elizabeth Scarborough for sharing the link via Twitter.

5. One video, 40 memes. Y U No click to see if you can find them all? Via @MarkClayson.

Friday Five: Twitter favorites

Time to do some fall cleaning of my Twitter favorites folder. (Warning: None of these have anything to do with Thursday’s big Facebook changes.)

1. Six must-read manifestos to get you unstuck, all from Change This. I’ve read the first one (Hugh Macleod’s How To Be Creative) and the last one (Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start) but have saved this to read them again — and to take a first read of the four sandwiched in between.

2. 12 ways to let people know they matter. Good tips on how not to be a schmuck.

3. 12 content marketing predictions for 2012. 2012 predictions? Already?

4. The best college admissions Twitter accounts you aren’t following.

5. Jedi Kittens. Sixteen seconds of video bliss to end your week, and this post.