Learning social media vocabulary is about more than just catching up and keeping up, its about staying ahead. Today’s edition is looking ahead to some apps that we think are going to play a significant role in our live’s in the very near future. If not these, someone executing the ideas behind them better. Ongo: A powerhouse…
It’s bad. I knew it was bad when I went up to Canada a couple weeks ago and actually felt my mood negatively affected by not having a phone (my beloved Droid Incredible) to text with. My addiction to technology, partly due to necessity, but mostly due to a love for it, leaves me fiending…
Hopefully you got a good start on your weekend social resume project, because we have part 2 ready and roaring for you with three more sites you should be a part of besides just LinkedIn. Get through these and you’ll leave the weekend with a shiny new online presence to be proud of! This weekend…
When you start talking online resumes and professional social networks, the conversation always finds it way to LinkedIn. This may be justified, it is the number one place as far as a professional social media site is concerned. However, it’s not the only place you need have your information (especially if you’re looking for a…
I’ll preface this by saying that there were probably a great many social media infographics I could have chosen and that you may have learned more from, but this one struck a chord. At Salty Waffle, one of our long-term goals is to help employ Generation Y, a generation that is freakishly unemployed at the…
When you think about the rise of social media and it’s prevalence in today’s business world, you would think that a company with the right resources should have their own social media department, if not only as a part of the marketing team. That’s just plain wrong. A dedicated team for social is not the…
At Salty Waffle we’re so excited to have an awesome collection of professional reviews of our social media classes available online. We owe it to the great people taking our classes and to the new functionality built into LinkedIn’s business pages. We’ve put these tips to work on our own page and it’s paying off. As a…
Last month, Foursquare passed 10 million users. In October I wrote how they had just hit 3 million…. That’s crazy. You can feel the difference too. Since we started using Foursquare there has been a significant increase in the number of people checking in, deals offered, and venues operated by the actual businesses (just recently hitting 500,000)….
When it’s time to look at your Twitter feed in a new way, it doesn’t hurt to have some neat tools in your back pocket. Here are three new Twitter tools we’ve been giving a try to help really visualize things. tweettolife: Ever wondered how to better target a message to a particular group of your followers?Tweettolife…
Well, its Tuesday, it’s time for social media vocabulary with Salty Waffle and since I’m going to go see the Avatar exhibit at the EMP, this social media vocabulary article is taking a trip to Pandora too! 1. Avatar: Not exactly like in the movie, but sort of. An avatar is a name or image that represents…