Starting Your Resume For A New World: LinkedIn

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…

5 Things You Can Do On Facebook You Would Have Paid a Private Eye for 10 Years Ago

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…

The Year In Social Media (via eBook!)

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…

Is Twitter Telling Us It’s The End Of The World?

Not even going to answer that, too messy. However, social media is reacting strongly to the idea that tomorrow might be the end of the world and the rapture event certain ancient texts speak of. If you’ve been following Twitter this evening, you might have noticed a few trending hashtags regarding the ‘rapture’. Whether you…

Rampant Addiction: Social Games Are Taking Over Lives

This might be the simplest social media infographic we’ve ever seen, but it might just be the most shocking. Nearly 1 of every 5 people playing social games via Facebook think they are actually addicted! 927 million hours are spent social gaming every single month. And, the kicker: 50% of log-ins to Facebook are specifically…

Social Media Vocabulary: EdgeRank

Some of, if not the most important parts of the web are the algorithms that make it run. Google’s search formula determines who shows up where in results, web crawlers are controlled by algorithms as they comb the web for information, and yes, social media uses them to make our online social life tick. A word popped…

Really? 1 in 5 Smartphone Users Check-In

In the past few months I’ve gone from gung-ho Foursquare fanatic, to apathetic location loser. In fact, today Nicole couldn’t even convince me to check-in to Cactus down on Alki. It just didn’t seem worth the almost zero effort it would have required. Well, today I might have been given a little hope. With a…