Porn, Millennials, and Blogs: 10 Social Media Facts That Will Surprise You

Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are the new kings of social media and they have brought social media from it’s infancy to fully-fledged business machine. Social media adoption among small companies doubled last year from 12% to 24%. Companies big and small are finding the value in being able to locate, listen to, and engage customers where…

Lonely In Location Land

Location seems to still be the latest and greatest in the social media world, but it sure doesn’t feel like it. The CEO of Foursquare has been dubbed the ‘New King of Social Media’ by Wired Magazine and yesterday they reported reaching 4 million users, just months after hitting 1 millon. Despite Facebook Places, SVNGR, Gowalla,…

3 Simple Tips To Making Your Own Luck With Social Media

If its true what they say; that you make your own luck in business through networking, we surely can’t ignore one of the best networking tools ever created in social media. Ever heard the name William Dawes? Unless you are a history buff, probably not. Dawes made nearly the same ride as the well-known Paul…

Ending World Hunger With A Grilled Cheese And A Side Of Social Media

So not only does it seem logical that a Salty Waffle would be friends with a tasty grilled cheese sandwich, but the people behind all the cheesy goodness have a love for entrepreneurship and social media too. FeelGood World is an organization that started at the University of Texas with the simple idea of taking…

Social Media Vocabulary: A Splog Isn’t A Type Of Monster…Technically

Social media seems to be creating stranger and stranger words. This Tuesday’s edition of Salty Waffle’s social media vocabulary has five new words as usual, but a couple of them might conjure images of monsters rather than elements of social media. Halloween must still be in the air… 1. Splog: is short for spam blog….

Does Google Buzz Have The Blues?

If you’re a Gmail user like all of us here at Salty Waffle you got a strange email sometime yesterday talking about Google Buzz, privacy, law suits, and about 8.5 million dollars. Using Gmail to contact users is certainly out of character which they admitted in the opening line, but what they had to say…

It’s Official, Space Has a New Mayor of Social Media

If you didn’t see today, the first ever Foursquare check-in happened from space! An astronaut named Douglas Wheelock used Foursquare to check-in to the International Space Station. He got a badge for it and everything and the Commander is now the mayor of the space station and the first person to use a geo-location service…