Category Archives: Social Media

LinkedIn.com groups: new features

I’ve been exploring the new features that linkedin.com has added to Groups. So far the one I like the best is how easy it is to add an RSS feed to the Group discussions tab. You can add up to … Continue reading

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Search Engine Optimization Primer

There are no silver bullets to getting well-known on the internet. At the end of the day, you have to do it the hard way: provide great content, find your community, share, link and grow. Tricks will not get you … Continue reading

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Tumblr, Posterous, Digg

I’m setting up accounts on all of these places. Will be experimenting with them so I will know if my clients need to make use of these channels in addition to the big three: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter. Fun stuff.

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Google Trends/Evernote/Head First – Three Things to do Today

Google Trends (http://google.com/trends). Keep an eye on what’s trending in news stories and searches. You can put in a search term and get an instant read on how it’s trending. I may have mentioned Evernote (http://www.evernote.com/) before, but never mind … Continue reading

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“I know that half of my advertising budget is wasted. I just don’t know which half.”

Preparing for the second Facebook for Business Workshop I’ve learned some great new tricks that I am eager to share with my community and clients If you can handle basic HTML, you can get started with custom Facebook pages. Good … Continue reading

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Where are the Honor Students?

Finding high school friends again, and becoming friends with some classmates who were not particularly friends has been one of the greatest pleasures of Facebook for me. I’ve reconnected with a couple of dozen people from my high school, and … Continue reading

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Time to try Google Wave again?

Chris Brogan makes a good case for giving Wave another look. I definitely need more collaboration tools, or rather, collaboration tools that I can get my collaborators to actually use.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II wants to be your friend on Facebook

George Carlin said that “military intelligence” is an oxymoron. Well, I don’t think so. Whatever we think about war (I imagine we can all agree that it’s not that great) and military forces (we probably concur that they have their … Continue reading

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Yelp moves to increase transparency

Yelp is making some changes to improve the transparency of their process. This http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2010/04/14/changes-come-to-yelp/ is a great rundown on what they’re up to. It has some great links to more information about this essential resource for small business owners, too.

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Twitter Makes a Monetization Move

http://blog.twitter.com/2010/04/hello-world.html Smart of them to make Promoted Tweets regular tweets, that can be retweeted, replied to, and favorited. This will actually be very good for the advertisers, too, who are opening a channel back to themselves. I imagine naive ones … Continue reading

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