Why You Shouldn’t Have A Social Media Department [Infographic]

When you think about the rise of social media and it’s prevalence in today’s business world, you would think that a company with the right resources should have their own social media department, if not only as a part of the marketing team. That’s just plain wrong. A dedicated team for social is not the…

5 Steps To LinkedIn Stardom

At Salty Waffle we’re so excited to have an awesome collection of professional reviews of our social media classes available online. We owe it to the great people taking our classes and to the new functionality built into LinkedIn’s business pages. We’ve put these tips to work on our own page and it’s paying off. As a…

3 New Ways To Look At Twitter

When it’s time to look at your Twitter feed in a new way, it doesn’t hurt to have some neat tools in your back pocket. Here are three new Twitter tools we’ve been giving a try to help really visualize things. tweettolife: Ever wondered how to better target a message to a particular group of your followers?Tweettolife…

Social Media Vocabulary: Pandora Edition

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…

How To: Locate And Hit Your “G” Spot

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…

Social Genealogy: What Does Social Media Have To Say About Our Dad’s?

Father’s Day is just around the corner, in fact, it’s this Sunday. I’ll wait just a second so you can press ‘like’ if this reminded you. Alright, well one of our friend’s over at Geni.com tipped us off to this great infographic they put together in honor of Father’s Day. By pulling in some statistics…

Social Media Phoenix: Vancouver Sets Their City, Social Media On Fire

Let’s get this straight right off the bat, this isn’t another article judging Vancouver for the riots last night or condemning the city or it’s residents as a classless place. This is a positive and hopeful piece, one showing how the good people of Vancouver are using social media to take their city back from a violent…