When the devastating earthquake struck Japan last week, we wrote about how Causes was quickly moving to raise aid money for the relief efforts. In the few days since, several other social media related efforts have popped up to help raise money as well. The results are simply mind-blowing: Causes: Raised $228,000 so far on…
If you are trying to start writing for the web, you may be looking around for the best blogging service out there. Content is the center of social media integration and without a good blog service, you can’t get that content out to your people. We use WordPress here at Salty Waffle, but that doesn’t…
In continuing with a tradition of awesome infographics from Flowtown, we’re bringing you the new marketing trifecta! Flowtown sees social media, mobile, and email as the core of an effective (and inexpensive) modern marketing plan, so if you’re bootstrapping like us, check it out! If you need help executing, try out our classes, we’re teaching…
Can you remember the last time someone took a picture and the next comment from them or someone else didn’t involve concern over when it would be tagged and posted to Facebook? Social media has changed the way humans record history. I was watching a movie where a guy joking about Facebook says, “I don’t…
At Salty Waffle we were recently updating our social media vocabulary page with about 100 new words (!), and noticed that we have quite a bit on Twitter and somehow, seem to have slightly neglected Facebook. Today is going to make up for that because we have 5 new social media vocabulary terms that are…
Well, normally we like to wait to give you an awesome social media infographic until Friday, but this week is special because tomorrow we have something hilarious to send you to the weekend with. So for today take a look at this version of the world map where countries are represented by the color of…
Today’s edition of social media vocabulary features five words you might mistake for games, sports terms, or even slapping five. Check ’em out and let us know if there is a word out there you’re looking for a definition on! Compete: Compete is a web-based application that supples business with valuable web analytics information from…
You’re on Twitter, you look around and all of a sudden a hashtag like #ifiwasasuperhero keeps coming up and you don’t know what it means. Hashtags and trending topics on social media sites like Twitter can be difficult to keep on top of and sometimes it’s just plain hard to know what they mean. Well,…
Apparently the average American spends about 9 hours in front of some kind of screen over the course of a single day! According to Wired, with that much media consumption, it’s a good idea to balance your servings in entertainment, social media, gaming, and other categories. Does your daily breakdown look anything like this social…
A few days ago we talked about how social media is changing cultural norms with regards to some manners. But, could Facebook and social media sites like it also be turning us into liars? We wonder, is a profile page a realistic representation of someone or just what they want to be seen as and not…