There does seem to be a button for just about anything digital these days. The Google +1 button provides a promotional value similar to Facebook’s “Like” button, and savvy blog readers will realize right off the bat if they have come upon an outdated blog if they arrive to one that doesn’t provide buttons to […]
Social Media
Who Are You?: A Life Balance & Social Media Practice
While the last decade has been full of amazing technology, platforms and software, none has had the potential to empower people more than Social Media. While some have engaged from business accounts and company profiles, others have taken the initiative to learn, write and speak for themselves. These people have created their own brand, a sustainable practice that allows them to seek employment as who they are. This combination of learning, networking and sharing has positioned them to be successful in any roll, be it one representing someone, something or themselves.
The #140Confli: Fast, Informative & Interactive
The #140Conf by Jeff Pulver is known for short presentations and interactions, but for Long Island it has turned out to be one of the most potent networking and learning experiences I have ever seen. This fast passed, energetic event engaged the attendees, keeping it under 140 Characters @katcop13: summed it up in a tweet “The word ‘audience‘ is dead. […]
Social Media Can Change Lives, For Better or For Worse
At this point, there can truly be no doubt about the fact that social media can and does change lives. It may not always be for the good, such as in the case of more than a handful of people who claim that status post on Facebook cost them their jobs. Facebook Fail Ashley Johnson, […]
Can You Keep a Secret in the Twitter Age?
Twitter has change how we communicate these days, and those who thought that the service is going to change the world in ways we cannot foresee, like Jeff Pulver, the founder of #140Conf. have proven to be correct. But Twitter is, in a way, a double edge sword. As much as it can bring people […]
LinkedIn IPO: LinkedIn Hits the Stock Market
As I mentioned in a previous post on the social networking site LinkedIn, this business based site allows users to connect to past, present, or future business contacts in effort to exchange ideas, knowledge, or perhaps even new opportunities. It also helps users to build a working portfolio that is supported by the very companies, […]
The PR State of Facebook
In a few days in Silicon Valley there were some rather unusual ideas, stories, and news articles, pitched that insinuated that Google was invading their users’ privacy. PR agency Burson-Marsteller, even offered to assist a highly influential blogger write an Anti-Google op-ed, promising him it would be posted in places like The Huffington Post or […]
TweetStats Real-Time Twitter Statistics
There seems to be an entire industry devoted to creating Twitter tools. Some are highly effective and worth the few moments it may take to register or login to their respective systems. Others tend to make a quick debut, likely via Twitter or another social media, and then quickly fade into the background as a […]
Main Stream Social Media: Foursquare, Twitter and the NYC Mayor
If you needed proof to how much social media is becoming the mainstream media, here’s a little tale: Mayor Bloomberg, of New York City, made April 16 the official “Foursquare Day” in the city of New York. Foursquare.com, a location based application that offers its subscribers the ability to “check in” through their smartphones and […]
How Online Customer Preferences and Feedback Has Changed
It has only been a couple of years since integrated log-ins began to creep into our everyday tasks online. Although it began on a smaller scale, such as the 2008 integration of Yahoo and Google ID’s with Zoho, from this small test in integration preferences, an entirely new beast grew. Logging in via third party […]