Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category:
How to Create a Viral Video
Normally, I would never write about this, because I have stood by the idea that you can’t just create something that will go viral, you have to make good content and see if something sticks. However, I did recently create the concept...
Your Facebook Profile Photo: The Do’s and Don’ts
Your profile photo is one of the few things on Facebook that you can not make private. Even if you check and it says it is only visible to friends, that thumbnail is still visible to anyone stalking looking at your profile. And...
How to Ask for LinkedIn Recommendations
You might not be too worried about getting reviews on LinkedIn (you should be). Maybe you figure you can get them when you leave the company or when you have a few more years of experience, but that is a bad idea! You never know...
Social Media: The Next Big Thing
Working in Social Media I get asked regularly to predict what the next cool thing in social media will be. This is because people have become comfortable with the rapid growth of Social Media over the last decade (yup – it...
Avoiding Your Facebook Birthday
Having nearly 1,000 friends, it is rare when a day goes by that I am not alerted to the fact that someone I barely know is celebrating their birthday. I have taken the stance that unless I knew it was someone’s birthday without...
How to Set up a Foursquare Special
With Sanuk opening their first flagship store in Downtown Disney I got to beg ask if could set up a Foursquare special. While the people I work with may not understand the joys of geo-locating, the new manager of the store was all...
Social Browsing the Internet
I tried my first social browser a few years ago when my group of social media buddies were all checking out Flock. Dubbed the Social Web Browser, Flock offered the ability to integrate my social media presence with my internet browsing....
Who are you at the Social Media Party?
We have all, at one time or another, been in a position where we are attending a social function or dinner party and somehow get stuck talking to someone that makes us want to gnaw our arm off rather than stay one more moment in...
Using LinkedIn to “Reverse Stalk” Your Network
A lot of time and energy has been put in to developing applications and tools that help users know who is looking at them and their various profiles online. Of course, we all love the idea of knowing who is checking us out, I mean,...
Making Friends via Social Media
Clubs and organizations are not new to any of us. Whether you were in the drama club, yelled Olè with the Spanish club, swung a bat with the baseball team, or rejected formal groups in favor of more loose connections, most people...
