Social Media
How to Claim Your Business on Foursquare
Though the social location field is crowded with a number of contenders, Foursquare seems to stand out in the crowd at the moment, particularly when it …
FriendFeed Is Your SEO Friend
Just thought I’d pass along something I noticed since Caffeine (Google’s new search ranking algorithm) kicked in. I’m wondering if anyone else has seen this? ...
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Two Sites Turn Facebook and Twitter Into Personalized News Clippers
Social web services like Facebook and Twitter present us with a daily avalanche of information, much of it in the form of links to outside ...
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How to Archive Conference or Event Tweets Forever
Since its inception people have found many creative uses for Twitter, but to my mind one of the most useful has been as the collective, ...
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Should Your Business Be on Buzz?
Just when you thought you had your social media game plan (you do have one, right?) all nice and set, Buzz happens. It’s like the ...
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My New Social Web Flow: Buzz to Twitter to Facebook
I’ve been an enthusiastic early adopter of Google Buzz since it appeared in my Gmail inbox the day after its unveiling. As a one-time huge ...
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Marketers: Get Ready for Google Social Search
On October 21 Google announced at Web 2.0 Expo the coming-soon implementation of real-time Social Search incorporated into the regular search results page. Results will ...
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Tip: Use News Feed Groups to Filter Your Feed
Overwhelmed by your News Feed? Too much to read? Facebook allows you to create groups of your friends so you can temporarily just see who ...
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TwitBlock: Best Tool Yet for Fighting Twitter Spam
It was inevitable: as fast as Twitter became the fastest-growing social media outlet, it also became a primo target for Internet spammers. Most people I ...
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Update on SEC’s Bad Call
RE: My post yesterday “The SEC Makes One Hell of a Bad Call“ The New York Times reports today that the SEC has clarified their ...
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The SEC Makes One Hell of a Bad Call
College sports’ Southeastern Conference (SEC) has probably had to overrule a few bad calls by umpires in its day. This week it was forced to ...
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Tr.im Trimmed Itself – But It “Got Better”
URL shortening service tr.im wasn’t turned into a newt, but it did very suddenly make a self-enacted disappearance yesterday. Citing inability to come up with ...
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Google Profiles and Reputation Management – Part Two
In Google Profiles and Reputation Management – Part 1, I made a case for why building a Google Profile should be a central part of ...
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Maybe You Should NOT Use Social Media for Your Marketing
A co-worker pulled me in on a phone consultation with a client yesterday. The client wanted to know if they should be on Twitter, and ...
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