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…
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…
The reigning King and Queen of Twitter are still Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, but just who actually holds the top spot in the kingdom of social media? Let’s take stock and crown a ruler. Will it be the young heartthrob or the ‘Fame Monster’? […]
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…
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…
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…
Well Salty Waffle friends, social media continues to move at breakneck speed. Even in just the last few months, StumbleUpon passed up Facebook, Google went social, and Skype cashed in with the empire. We know it can be darn near impossible to keep up with everything, especially all the latest best practices, strategies, great business tools, services, and otherwise…