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Understand the basics of #socialmedia posts on each network

Understand the basics of #socialmedia posts on each network

In my recent exploration of various social media profiles being used by local businesses, I found a disturbing trend. While...

Four types of Facebook posts that businesses can rotate if they must

Four types of Facebook posts that businesses can rotate if they must

There are too many opportunities out there in the world of social media that makes it a bad idea to...

Playing to tomorrow’s customers on social media helps decision makers today

Playing to tomorrow’s customers on social media helps decision makers today

A father and son walked onto a car lot and started looking around. As the salesperson approached, the son, 14-...

Reach versus inaccuracy: should social media be at the forefront during a crisis?

Reach versus inaccuracy: should social media be at the forefront during a crisis?

The use of social media to report events has become a normal occurrence. Any time anything happens that is newsworthy,...

How to start over with a Facebook page

How to start over with a Facebook page

Oh, the regrets. Things happen. We start heading down the wrong direction and suddenly we find ourselves in a bad...

Which Big Brother do you prefer?

Which Big Brother do you prefer?

The hot news item this week is that the National Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S. customer phone records...

Comparing the coveted internships of Google and Facebook

Comparing the coveted internships of Google and Facebook

In a world where people are often having trouble getting full-time jobs, there are a few internships in the tech...

Why ‘Game Of Thrones’ characters should have used social media

Why ‘Game Of Thrones’ characters should have used social media

Twitter and Facebook exploded this past Sunday night with tweets and statuses surrounding the shocking ending of this week’s episode...

As Home fails, Facebook tries a lifeline with dock feature

As Home fails, Facebook tries a lifeline with dock feature

The primary goal of Home, Facebook's Android app that basically takes over your phone, was to keep people more connected...

Visualizing the giant piles of cash the tech giants are sitting on

Visualizing the giant piles of cash the tech giants are sitting on

If you had a quarter for every time someone said, "If I had a quarter for every time...," how much...

OTR: the online office water cooler

OTR: the online office water cooler

Picture this: you’re in the office and want to tell your coworker in the next room that your boss has...

Social media loves animals. Thankfully, humans do as well.

Social media loves animals. Thankfully, humans do as well.

If there's one thing that plays well, almost universally, on social media, it's animals. From pets to wild beasts, animals...

App.net: Facebook without the baggage

App.net: Facebook without the baggage

More and more people are deleting their Facebook and Twitter accounts because of all the advertisements that flood the page....

How social media made a kinder, gentler automotive industry

How social media made a kinder, gentler automotive industry

People in the car business have been the focus of more jokes about dishonesty and greed than any other professionals...

Holidays Unplugged: disconnect and relax

Holidays Unplugged: disconnect and relax

These days technology is all pervasive, unavoidable even, and we are grateful. It has made it simple to get things...

If you want attention on Google+, go large and horizontal with your images

If you want attention on Google+, go large and horizontal with your images

When Google+ first rolled out their change, we called it "Twitteresque". After exploring it further for the last couple of...

Xbox One: Can it truly stake first place?

Xbox One: Can it truly stake first place?

From a social media marketing standpoint, a multimedia video game platform sounds like a dream. The idea seems novel an...

6 things you didn’t know Google Chrome could do

6 things you didn’t know Google Chrome could do

After five years of constant upgrades and improvements, Google's Chrome is now used by about 40% of those wired to...

Social media is open 7 days a week

Social media is open 7 days a week

Many businesses are trying and failing at social media. Some are succeeding. One of the keys to finding success is...

Yahoo flexes its pocketbook with Hulu, other investment considerations

Yahoo flexes its pocketbook with Hulu, other investment considerations

Has the sleeping giant awoken or is this a last ditch effort to remain relevant? After buying Tumblr last week,...