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3 Social Media Horror Stories

October 31, 2011

Yes, it’s all hallow’s eve, and while the kiddies are thinking about candy and costumes and spooky houses they’ll visit tonight, business people have a different idea of what’s truly scary. Especially PR and marketing professionals who are watching social media speed up the reaction time of their customers to light speed. How can we [...]

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Facebook’s New Timeline

September 24, 2011

This time the changes at Facebook are really big. Graphically pleasing perhaps, but also very noisy and cluttered with duplicate information and graphics. Good thing we’ve all got broadband these days isn’t it or it would take forever to load Facebook’s Timeline. I did a quick video overview of what is in the new Facebook [...]

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Wait, Facebook is MySpace?

September 21, 2011

Facebook is showing off a brand new look and as usual everybody’s in a snit about it. Honestly, it amazes me that they seem to do their re-designs in a total vacuum. Any web developer knows the first rule of web design is to listen to what the client wants, collect their feedback and do [...]

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Could a lot of fans hurt your Facebook page?

June 28, 2011

I know, sounds crazy right? If you’ve head me speak on social media you’ve heard me say that social media is not about numbers but about quality. This is particularly true on Facebook. Why? Because Facebook has a ranking system called “EdgeRank”. (check your Edgerank  here) To put it simply Facebook looks at how many [...]

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Google’s new version of the Facebook Like

April 6, 2011

Google just introduced their “plus 1” button. It hasn’t rolled out to everyone yet, but you’ll probably see it soon. If you’re in a big hurry you can sign into Google’s Experimental Labs and add this experiment to your services. Here’s a video description of how it works (from Google’s point of view.) So who [...]

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Facebook just got better (at least for admins)

February 11, 2011

As you might have already heard, Facebook just rolled out the new Facebook Pages design and features as a preview last night. The goal is to make pages look more like profiles and although you still won’t have the same options as you do on your profile it’s a big step in the right direction. [...]

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Have we got our head in the clouds about the value of online community?

January 4, 2011

I had a very interesting conversation with a Facebook application developer today. He’s a very smart guy and we agreed and disagreed on quite a lot of things. Here’s the crux of the discussion from my point of view. If it’s not yours, or if it is, please–for the love of community–pitch in and SAY [...]

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Facebook Email? Um, not really

November 15, 2010

If you’re a social media geek you already know about Facebook’s live session today to introduce their new messaging system. If you’d like to see the re-caps go here. There had been a lot of buzz about Facebook rolling out a new email client, whether it was going to be a Gmail killer and a [...]

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8 Ways to a Better Facebook Group

October 14, 2010

If you’ve decided to create one of the new Facebook groups and add your friends here are some tips to make it worthwhile for everyone. Creating the group is easy. I’m assuming you’ve seen the video by now, but if not here’s a link and some info on creating Facebook groups. Here are some things [...]

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Social Media Efficiency

September 22, 2010

The number one question I get about social media is: “How can I do all this social media stuff and still get my work done?” Great question isn’t it? I mean, OK, I confess I spend all day attached to social media like an IV but that’s my job. People hire me to watch out [...]

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