Social Media
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 …
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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5 Reasons Why Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Is Better Than We Think
Facebook’s long-awaited total makeover of it’s extremely popular yet notoriously horrible iPhone app finally arrived in the app store yesterday. By all accounts I’ve seen, ...
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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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Social Media and Reputation Management
Are you an ace? I don’t mean you’ve shot down boucoups enemy planes in some WW I video game. I’m coining a new usage of ...
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Social Media Growing by Leaps….Or Not?
Two stories came across my FriendFeed feed back-to-back this morning: 1. Compete: Facebook US Traffic Nearing Google, Yahoo – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/09/compete-facebook-us-traffic-nearing-google-yahoo/ (via http://ff.im/3Lnxo) 2. Study shows ...
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$300 or Free…um, er…Give Me a Moment
“You get what you pay for” is usually a pretty good dictum to follow. But the Internet often negates that truism. Certainly one of the ...
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BackTweets Finds Links to You on Twitter
UPDATE (1/2012): BackTweets has been acquired by Twitter and the service is no longer available publicly. If you’re at all serious and savvy about using Twitter ...
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