The other day I was Facebook chatting a friend from the full message view, not the little chat bar down at the bottom, and something there creeped me out big time! It’s small, but if you notice the little location arrow right there next to the date, you may be in for a surprise. Hover…
If you’re a business without a fan page, get on your horse! If you’re a business with a fan page make sure you jump on the opportunity to get a nice looking URL courtesy of Facebook. It’s quick and easy and makes finding your fan page so much easier. You no longer need to have…
Meet the VideoJug sock puppet and take a quick journey with him as he takes us through a great How To video on finding a job using social media. It’s a great quick look for some quick things you can do to make your profiles look a little better and start identifying jobs you would…
Last week we wrote about how to go about getting a Google Plus page for your business. If you weren’t convinced to get one, check this out. You have to get one! 1. Google Plus doesn’t need Facebook type member numbers to win right now, not even close. Why? Your network dictates a huge…
When you go to post an image on your next blog post or piece of content, check out these two tools before you risk a Google Image search that could lead you to pictures with watermarks, strict usage rights, or….well, nevermind. Flickr Creative Commons Search: Flickr has a search tool with built in license filtering…
Just recently, Google Plus added a place for businesses to create pages. Now, just like on Facebook and LinkedIn, there is a dedicated place to add a company page and connect with your fans and community. The process is simpler than pages on any of the other major networks, but we found it to be…
This Friday we have a really interesting look at how social networking happens in China. With internet security being what it is in China, many of the social networking sites that we use here in the U.S. aren’t allowed. This has allowed other sites to become very popular to a great many people in a…
It’s hard to know what the long-term effects of social media will be, especially on younger generations that will grow up plugged into Facebook as soon as they can type. What we can look at though, are some short-term effects, not all of which are negative. In fact, some great articles over at PsychCentral point…
Congress is looking at a bill designed to help stop piracy on the internet, but has language and provisions in it that could be severely abused and drastically limit freedom of speech on the internet. It threatens web-based companies like our own, Odd Dog’s, and many other’s ability to do business if passed. Please consider…
It’s no secret we’re big fans of Hootsuite here, we use it everyday to make our lives easier and keep up with the dizzying world of Twitter. We teach about Hootsuite in our classes and I figured, hey, these are some great social media vocabulary words people should know. Some of these words are unique…