Feb 15, 2013

Social media can be your best friend and a very powerful tool when it comes to attracting new clients, creating business opportunities or connecting with other like minded individuals but it can also be your worst enemy as anyone is free to say whatever they wish to about you and your brand. Take for instance the case of Fitness SF and there alleged non payment...

Feb 12, 2013

If you have explored Social 360 you may have noticed the Social Stream link at the top of the page. The page you will see is a visual representation of all my social activities from the various social networks I participate and am active on as well as hashtags I have selected. What Is RebelMouse? RebelMouse describes what they do the following way: RebelMouse...

Jan 29, 2013

One of the activities I enjoy is running and while I am not even sure I would consider myself a runner I have competed in a couple of races and I have a few on the calendar for this year as well. While on a run the other day my mind, as it usually does when I’m running, began to wander and one of the topics I began thinking about is how many parallels one...

Jan 26, 2013

For many, keeping an eye on mentions of their brand or keeping informed about what the competition is currently doing is an important part of our daily activities. The problem is tracking all of this can sometimes be a daunting task that consumes far more time than we are willing to give to it. Once again Google has an solution to this problem with there Google...

Jan 25, 2013

If you scroll through your Facebook news feed you’re bound to come across at least one or two contests, promotions or sweepstakes currently taking place by one or more of the pages you have liked. If you look closely at these contests you may discover that the majority of them are actually in violation of the Facebook Page Terms Of Service and because of...

Jan 23, 2013

Does your business or brand currently use video? Have you created a YouTube channel? If not one of your goals for 2013 should be to start producing videos for YouTube and to become more active on this video social network. The statistics surrounding YouTube are amazing and speak for themselves as to why you should be looking at video and YouTube. Over 800...

Jan 21, 2013

Last week Facebook held a press conference to announce it’s latest product and while there was much speculation as to what they were going to announce,  in the end the product announced was Graph Search. While many; including investors weren’t thrilled by the product many have speculated that Facebook may just now have taken a bite out of...

Jan 19, 2013

With only 140 characters permitted in your tweet it makes sense to maximize the amount of real estate you have for your message and for sharing a link to your content and that is where URL shortening services come in. These services take your original URL which in many cases is 30 or more characters long and squeeze it down to a more manageable size of 10 or...