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…

Social Media Class at Seattle Central: Social Author Basics

Here’s the Social Author Prezi from Social Media Marketing at Seattle Central. Social Authoring differs from traditional authoring because it needs to be in the authentic voice of the brand and include key words. It’s a true art to write well for the web. Salty Waffle Social Author SEO Basics on Prezi

The BCS Is Terrible, Weird Cats, Ochocinco, Rubber Stamps, Vegan Waffles, And The Thing That Powers All Of Social Media

During my usual procrastination circuit of TechCrunch, Woot, ESPN, and Facebook I noticed two things. Well, three, first that I wasn’t getting anything done, two, that Oklahoma is somehow number one in the BCS standings, and three, sports owns social media on the weekends. Scrolling through my Facebook feed, every other post was about the…

On Second Thought, Maybe Women Are Actually Better At Twitter

Last week, we shared some interesting social network statistics about men and women on Twitter. The first question a bunch of people had was, wait, isn’t how people use Twitter more important that the number of followers they have? Going along with that, we did a bit of research sticking with the gender angle and found…

I Think Social Media Stole Something From Me!

The new (ish) cell phone driving laws in Oregon are killing me. I don’t like headsets and I can manage my phone just fine, thank you. So why are they taking away my phone during drive time? Social media made them. I’m not trying to deny that the task of driving should be given its…