How do you manage your online experience? Are you more concerned with getting the highest scores you can on the social influence sites… or are you in social media to connect with people? Do you can check in on Foursquare, check TwitterGrader, buy Groupons, try to raise your Klout score or sell your “social stock” on [...]
Have you ever wanted to take a Facebook Fast? And just delete your account? Well, I just finished a 30 day Facebook Fast from my Facebook Wall. I went into my privacy settings and shut down the wall. I always have to quantify the value of something to my life. And it seems to me [...]
Google+ profile URLs are long, cumbersome things. Mine is https://plus.google.com/u/0/107496519574681170790/posts. How in the hell is anyone going to remember that? Zero percent chance of remembering that. Ok? Sure, Google+ is still in beta, but a vanity URL would be quite handy. Et voilà! Here is the remedy for what ails you. Gplus.to, the unofficial short [...]
Google+ soft launched in a limited beta, last week, and thus far, many tech pundits are giving it glowing reviews. It is interesting to see the points of view from some of social media pioneer entrepreneurs perspective on Google’s latest foray into social. Google Wave and Google Buzz were Google minus. Google+ is getting lots [...]
Silicon Valley is all about creating the next big thing. The trio that helped turn Twitter into an Internet sensation has joined forces for another go-around at internet glory. But, how this affect Twitter? Biz Stone said Tuesday he’s leaving his full-time gig at Twitter to resurrect the Internet incubator Obvious Corp. with Evan Williams [...]
As social media evolves, it appears that tribes are being created online. Small groups of influential people are congregating in various social media sites and helping each other create more influence. This appears to be a relatively new phenomenon. There are several sites out there that gauge our social influence. They take our actions on [...]
If you haven’t heard by now… first of all, where the hell have you been? So, on May 27, 2011, Rep. Anthony Weiner “accidentally” sent a link via Twitter of his weiner. He couldn’t have imagined the backlash that would ensure. By not sending this message as a DM, direct message, this became an embarrassing [...]
Late Friday night, Facebook announced a new round of privacy settings for third-party applications via the company’s developers blog. They no doubt hoped to minimize the repercussions from its latest privacy change by announcing it late on Friday evening, but there could be a larger repercussions from its new privacy move than Facebook initially anticipated. Essentially, Facebook [...]
Eleven key consumer trends to watch in 2011 include acts of kindness from brands, the developed world launching products for emerging economies, and online status symbols, according to consumer insights firm trendwatching.com. Following is a brief overview of each of the 11 consumer trends which trendwatching.com predicts will have a global impact on marketers in [...]
David Armano has written an interesting piece on social media trends of 2011 for the Haarrrrvard Business Journal which is worth taking a look at. He talks about how the mobile and tablet wars will be heating up. He discusses how Facebook is going to take the location-based world by storm. Armano also talks about [...]
Watching the search landscape evolve these days, I can’t help but think of the real estate agents’ mantra: “It’s all about location, location, location!” The emergence of location-based services, such as Facebook Places, Twitter Places, and Foursquare, is clearly a game-changer on the web. Social networking sites are more locally focused. Online media are now [...]
Are you ready for some liiiiiiveblogging! It may be a rainy Monday but all is right with the world here at SMX East. The next few days will be jam-packed with conference coverage and antics so I hope you’re stocked up on vitamins and coffee. To kick things off we have a killer local panel [...]
Haven’t you heard? There is a recession going on!! Nobody is spending any money on marketing! Everyone is broke! Well, this just isnt the case. According to Marketing Sherpa’s Social Media Marketing Benchmark Survey, almost every niche surveyed is increasing budgets. I know a lot of small business people. That’s why I blog about their [...]
There has been a lot of talk and maybe a little drama surrounding the Fast Company Influence Project and I wanted to write a little something about why I wanted to be a part of the project and why I continue to ask for the support of my friends and colleagues by the way of [...]
“ Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you’re hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you’re doing.” – Amber Naslund, Social Media Today I came across this quote today and it really struck home . . . it’s about the QUALITY [...]
Lately my company has been asked to write a lot of proposals for social media management. I’m not talking about doing some occasional tweeting for people. I’m talking about setting them up from ground zero. I am also talking Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and sometimes setting up blogs. After everything is setup we start the management [...]
Social networking sites and the media have found synthesis these past few months, as movies and their twitter and Facebook fan pages have been areas where fans can get sneak previews of scenes, exclusive interviews and interact with their favorite actors. Now, the upcoming motion picture “Scott Pilgrim VS The World” has a cool offer [...]
Ok, we all know this is a very shitty crisis going on down in the Gulf of Mexico. I have to say that it seemed like only a matter of time for one of these offshore oil wells did something crazy like explode and completely pollute the surrounding waters. It had to go wrong sometime… [...]
After a rough week surrounding my first Mother’s Day without Mom, a look back at how we grieve and how social media can help us in those times of loneliness
April 7th 2009 was the date that my company hosted our first TweetUp. It ended up being well attended and well received. We had news coverage from multiple local stations as well as local papers. It was that night that prompted the birth of the TweetUp Girls concept. Flash forward a year to April 22, [...]
Lawrence, Kansas is very dear to me. See, I grew up in Missouri surrounded by obnoxious Missouri Tigers fans… being an antagonist and also an observer of great history and talent, I decided to become a Jayhawk. So, after a brief stint in the Army at the Defense Language Institute in both the Arabic and [...]
Remember “The Sims” – the game where you got to watch someone live out his/her life. With social media, we can all be Sims.
In the perfect world, a client needs someone who knows the Social Media scene & not only gets it but can set the tone for a brand. Oh yeah, and someone who knows that control is futile.
This month was very large for Facebook. Extra awesome saucemly, large. It gets more traffic than Google. BigCommerce released their bad-ass social shopping application, Social Shop, via Facebook. And Facebook wants to release a like button and be an aggregate of as much content as it can. So much to talk about! Facebook Overtakes Google [...]
Ok so hear me out….last week our new couch was delivered for the upstairs playroom. This is no ordinary couch, this is a king size relaxation station. I’m serious. I am an extremely active individual. I work out 6 days a week and am always on the go. That being said, since the couch arrived, [...]
Hey everyone, stop what you are doing and listen….Twitter is going to announce how it plans to handle its new advertising platform! Wait, what? Not advertising but @anywhere? Who messed that up and how? Ok fine, so all the excitement about advertising on Twitter has now overshadowed their big announcement about @anywhere. One quick thing…..@ev, [...]
Just a few minutes ago as I was surfing between Facebook and Twitter – I saw a simple post “8.2 Quake in Venezuela” WTF?! Yeah. I had the same reaction . . . This article about how Chile’s earthquake knocked Mother Earth three inches off her axis quickly came to mind – swiftly followed by [...]
Foursquare plans to distribute a free analytics tool and dashboard in the coming weeks that will give business owners access to a range of information and statistics about their business visitors.
I like Twitter. Ok maybe that’s not accurate. I really like Twitter. I constantly update and I’ve connected with some really awesome people so I guess I shouldn’t complain. There are some things about Twitter, however, that annoy me a little. I go on Twitter to connect with like minded individuals that like some of [...]
Thanks to a retweet – I discovered possibly the best Dear Facebook post that ever needed to be written in a 140 characters plus. Seriously. @RedheadWriting spells out every frustration toward Facebook in big bold letters (insert witty font conference reference here). From telling it like it is about their customer service (or lack thereof) [...]
February marks six years of poking, picture posting, stalking and miscellaneous relationship awkwardness on TheFacebook.com (as it was known then). Happy Birthday! Now I don’t know if you know this, but Facebook only used to be for kids in college. And the earliest adopters were either ivy leaguers or students at large big 12-ish universities.
The other day I was chatting online with an old friend. We had recently re-connected on Facebook after not seeing each other in about six years. We were both curious about a co-worker, who had been a mutual friend, so I did a quick Google search on his name and I found his Myspace profile [...]
Internet stalking is so easy to do these days. I have to admit, I truly enjoy researching people and finding out pieces of information before I meet them face to face. I feel that I get to understand them a little better ahead of time and then I can use that information while we meet. [...]
