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…
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,…
What keeps you moving when things get tough, or just plain suck? We all have those times when it is hard to get motivated or nothing seems to go right in a day. What is it that keeps you truckin’ toward your goals even when you’re just not feeling it? I have a friend that…
At Salty Waffle, we’ve been working on some brand new social media classes and the newest set is all about the ‘Social Resume’. We’re teaching all about tools to build your online resume for a world where paper resumes are dying. Since LinkedIn is such a huge part of recruiting, (80% of companies use it…
You know the person, the ‘Facebook Stalker’. The guy or gal that hunts around Facebook way past the boundaries of their own wall and feed looking for information on one of the more than 500 million individuals inhabiting the site. Maybe an ex, maybe someone you just met, someone from high-school, or maybe just a…
This is a fun edition of our weekly social media vocabulary piece that will hopefully help to clear up some of the stammering that happens when you are trying to pick the right T-word with Twitter. 5 more social media vocabulary terms to take-in: 1. Tweep: One of your twitter people. Twitter + people =…