When you start talking online resumes and professional social networks, the conversation always finds it way to LinkedIn. This may be justified, it is the number one place as far as a professional social media site is concerned. However, it’s not the only place you need have your information (especially if you’re looking for a…
With Google+ quickly gaining a strong user base, the question keeps popping up: Is Facebook invincible? It wasn’t long ago that MySpace was the end all, be all in the world of social networking. Just a few years later, the once up-start Facebook, dominates. The grip Facebook has on our world is tight; with over…
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…
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…
Last month, Foursquare passed 10 million users. In October I wrote how they had just hit 3 million…. That’s crazy. You can feel the difference too. Since we started using Foursquare there has been a significant increase in the number of people checking in, deals offered, and venues operated by the actual businesses (just recently hitting 500,000)….
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…
Yeah, there is a lot of information online. But, just how much? With 24 hours worth of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute, 65 million tweets pouring in every day, plus all the other sites…like Facebook and others adding to the total, we have to ask the question: Have we reached a world of…
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…
Let’s start with a happy Father’s Day from Salty Waffle. We thought in honor of the holiday, we would put together a little piece examining the father’s of social media. We’ll start all the way back in the 1800’s with Georg Simmel, the first scholar to think of social networks in terms we talk about…
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…