Social Media
Learn the latest news and trends on the most popular social networks and how to reach and engage your audience with social media marketing best practices.
Interview with Chris Brogan, Social Media Maven
It took me quite a bit of time to complete this post, because all the pieces fell into place last week at CES. I interviewed...
How to Quickly Check Tweets Related to Any Web Page
The idea of giving the opportunity to leave off-site comments to any page has been hot for a long time: that’s how many social bookmarking...
5 Reasons to Learn Social Media
Have you ever noticed how many bloggers and social media marketers just tell people that they should go out try social media? How you shouldn’t...
Social Media Marketing Snake Oil
This post is a response to BusinessWeek’s recent “Beware Social Media Snake Oil” article. I would like to elaborate on a few concepts and misconceptions...
How to Subscribe to Your Twitter Stream with Google Reader
Since joining Twitter I’ve been looking for ways to effectively follow my friends there and last week I found something hilarious which I must share...
3 Ways Digg Can Stop the “Bury Brigade” Dead in Its Tracks!
Recently, @MichDe wrote a post entitled “New Media Concepts, The Digg Bury Brigade and How to Fight it.” I took a personal interest in this...
Getting Control of Your Social Media Life
You can balance your social media life between “I don’t have time for it” and “I can’t stay away from it!” Social media participation is...
Scribd : Linking & Branding via Document Sharing
As most of us know, Scribd is the most popular document sharing site available, with over 50,000 uploads each day. With that being said, Scribd...
10 Ways to be a Great Social Media User
I read Matt Leonard’s post on 10 Ways to be a Great SEO a while back and thought it would be great to put a...
Lawsuits & PR Nightmares: Why Employees Need Social Media Guidelines
How have companies with more than 1,000 employees been faring with employees and their social media use? According to multiple recent studies, it appears that...
Social Media: White Hat vs. Black Hat
I am on a panel today at SES San Jose called Social Media: White Hat vs. Black Hat. The description of the panel is as...
Interview with Sarah Blow of TweetMeme
Tweetmeme is one of the most popular and smartest Twiiter-based services. It’s well-known “Retweet it” buttons are used throughout the Internet. So today we are...
Social Media Rock Star: An “Interview” With Musician Michael Wainwright
“Come On…I’m Talking To You…Come On” Tears For Fears “Shout” Social media professionals endlessly debate tactics and best practices in this developing realm of communication. ...
Interview with Fraser Kelton of Glue, New Promising Social Network
This week we feature the interview with Fraser Kelton, working at new and exciting social media project Glue, developed by AdaptiveBlue. 1. Please share your...
Facebook or Just Face-Look? Are People 55 And Older Really Using Social Networking Websites?
Facebook is estimated to have 70.2 million unique visitors per month in the United States according to comScore. Social networking is booming, everyone is friending,...
Buying and Selling Social Media Profiles?
Last week I stumbled across an interesting service that allows to buy-sell social media accounts. It is called Assetize and apparently functions as an auction....
Twitter SEO: 4 Simple Tips to Help Your Twitter Profile Rank
Twitter SEO can help you take one more step towards owning your online reputation. When people think of Twitter, they don’t usually think of it...
Lawyers, Guns, and Twitter – Who Owns Your Twitter Account
Last week I read an article on BusinessWeek.com that presented the results of a survey of c-level executives regarding employees and social networks. According to...
There Is Definitely Something Devious Going on Over at Reddit!
For the last five months, I have been an active user of Reddit. When I first got started with Reddit, I was really impressed by...
Best Travel Social Media Networks : Traveling 2.0
Summer is fast approaching and I already can’t wait to have some rest. Of course, the social media geek inside me made me get prepared...
The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media
The oft-discussed Seven Deadly Sins apply to Social Media as well and are worth exploring. Here’s a quick lesson to keep you from the sure...
Why It’s a Terrible Idea to Unfollow Everyone on Twitter
Joel Drapper recently made a post which was titled “Why I Unfollowed Everyone on Twitter and Why You Should Too.” While I am friends with...
10 Ways to Be a Great SEO
Most of us see the same tweets, read the same blogs and know the same case studies. We know to optimize titles and anchor text,...
How Huge Sites like CNN.com & Digg Are Integrating Twitter
Twitter is the first social media site the rise and evolution of which I’ve witnessed from the very start. I mean I remember how Facebook...
KnowEm.com Launches : Check & Register Usernames on 100+ Social Media Sites
KnowEm.com (formerly CheckUserNames.com) launched a new web service today which monitors hundreds of social media sites for social media identity theft, helping brands to secure...
Develop an Avatar Strategy for Social Media & Blogs
A lot has been said about avatar strategy already. However there is still something new to add. Choosing the right avatar is so crucial for...
Gradual Roll Out of the New Facebook Home Page Starts
Update: I just checked out my Facebook profile and it’s now showing the new home page. My initial reaction is that the Highlights on the...
Inside Affluence.org – a Social Network for the Rich : Interview with Russell Rockefeller
Today we are featuring an interview with Russell Rockefeller, an online marketer who is currently planning to start working as VP of Marketing for Affluence.org...
How to Search for People Across Many Social Networks
Today it is a common practice to join each and every social media network if not to participate then at least to prevent online identity...
Belkin Caught Buying Fake Consumer Reviews
The Belkin company has been busted by The Daily Background for paying $.65 per fake consumer review via the Amazon service Mechanical Turk. A Belkin...