Yeah, there is a lot of information online. But, just how much? With 24 hours worth of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute, 65 million tweets pouring in every day, plus all the other sites…like Facebook and others adding to the total, we have to ask the question: Have we reached a world of…
Hey now people, that’s ‘G’ for geo-location, as in your business’ check-in spot. If your company has a physical location of any kind, here are 4 easy steps to getting your geo-location social media efforts hitting on all cylinders. In other words, it’s time to get physical. We looked at which location based social media…
Let’s start with a happy Father’s Day from Salty Waffle. We thought in honor of the holiday, we would put together a little piece examining the father’s of social media. We’ll start all the way back in the 1800’s with Georg Simmel, the first scholar to think of social networks in terms we talk about…
It may not be a huge surprise that Facebook and Twitter are the social media sites responsible for driving a majority of traffic to blogs, but it’s astounding just how dominant they are in the space. Every year, Technorati does their State of the Blogosphere study which surveys thousands of bloggers. Trends since even last year are…
Ever bought something and opened the instructions only to read what seemed like a foreign language? A 400 step Lego instruction sheet, 18 steps to installing AA batteries, you get the picture, tasks made more difficult by the same directions that were supposed to make your life easier. This happened to me the other day; I was…
We took you through the evolution of how people use Twitter, even had a piece on the 7 highly effective Facebook habits. Now it’s time to look at the history of the blogger. Flowtown has a great infographic on how the blogger was born, all the way up to it’s split into the multiple personalities you see spreading…
The social media landscape is changing faster than that of prehistoric earth. New sites pop up all the time, the balance of power shifts rapidly from one service to another, and people constantly jump from one social bandwagon trend to the next. I like the breakdown of the social world into 7 categories with Google…
By Nicole Donnelly, EO EMP MIT Class of 2011 for Bottom Line Up Enterprises After I sold my business, BabyLegs, many opportunities came across my desk. What is a viable deal and what should I just let go? How do I thoroughly assess the opportunities? Rich and Mary sat down with me and helped me to think through…
PsyBlog has a taken a series of studies and nailed down some reasons people are generally less inclined to follow social conventions when online versus in person. 1. Anonymity: Being online offers the opportunity to be relatively anonymous if you want to be. When people feel that they can’t be identified, they are more likely…
Mondays, the day you catch up on all those emails from over the weekend, check out what you missed over the weekend, and stare down all the work you’ll be doing for the rest of the week. It’s a good time to catch up on some social media from last week and the weekend too,…