Social Media Responds to Japan
The devastation in Japan is beyond comprehension. While electricity and phone service have been hugely affected, leaving many survivors without either, the Internet has remained virtually unaffected....
View ArticleSocial Media: the Spark of Revolution?
Is social media the new vehicle for revolution? Social media is no longer limited to status updates and posting photos from a friend’s birthday party. Social media has quickly become one of the most...
View ArticleThe Serendipitous Nature of Social Media
No matter how targeted your efforts might be, serendipity is sprinkled over the web like magic pixie dust How did we connect with people around the globe before the creation of social media networks?...
View ArticleShould you say no to Social Syndication? How to Link Facebook to Twitter
How do you link a Facebook Page to Twitter? This has been a big question that people ask all the time. This is called syndicating. Web Syndication is when you have one feed that is being distributed...
View ArticleWill Google+ Cross the Chasm?
The Google+ button is everywhere. Reports are saying it is more wide spread than the twitter button. Google just sped up the button by 3 times, so now it will load even faster on all those websites....
View ArticleWhatever you do don’t do this! …on Social Media
Trust is an essential part of being a social media manager. In fact, it is cornerstone. When you are managing people’s social media, you are doing more than just tweeting or posting on Facebook. You...
View ArticleRetweet Becomes Proper English
The Oxford is catching up to the social media times The Oxford dictionary has added the word “retweet” to the English dictionary. For those of us addicted to Twitter, we are very familiar with this...
View ArticlePlaces is Dead. Long Live Foursquare
Facebook tried and failed in gaining market share in the geolocating social networking. But the people have spoken and no one is using Facebook Places. In the next round of updates to the mobile app,...
View ArticleGoogle+ for Everyone!
This great cartoon from the Funny Pictures Blog just says it all Google+ has finally released its stronghold on exclusivity. For the first few months of the social networks life, it has been an...
View ArticleJobs Loss for Social Media
The recent death of Steve Jobs reminds us that, while he didn’t have a direct impact on current social media, Jobs did help create the environment for social media to flourish. With products like...
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