Is Your Social Working? [Infographic]

One of the biggest mistakes you can make with social media is not tracking your efforts. Though about 80% of companies surveyed said they do social, only 40% of those said they tracked their efforts. We’ve talked about tools for doing this before, but Flowtown has another great infographic here about the state of ‘Social…

Shopping? Shopkick Takes Things To A Whole New Level

Well, it’s already Labor Day again if you can believe that and we figured a lot of you might be out there shopping today. If you are, check out Shopkick and then be sure to go crazy with your smartphones on barcodes and check-ins. Get those deals people! Anyway, The Minority Report-like future of advertisement we can all imagine…

Did You Know? Facebook Will Let Your Download All Your Stuff! Photos, Videos, etc.

Who knew! Facebook has a back-up system built right in that allows you to download a zip file of the contents of your profile. I did it the other day and it worked great. Who knows what this means for applications like SocialSafe, but it was very easy to use and convenient to have built…

Measuring Social Influence: Klout

A while back we wrote about how Bing and Google were making the way people share information on the social web an important part of search rankings and page results. You can’t have great SEO without a good social strategy. Social is SEO and SEO is social. This is why it is so important to…

Social Media Vocabulary: The 5 Top Web Hosting Services

If you tried to visit us earlier today and were greeted by an ugly error message, we’re sorry. We had some hosting related issues and our customer service experience with our provider was less than stellar. Hosting is hugely important and since it’s so appropriate today, our social media vocabulary day will give you the…

Social Media + Personality = Job Offers

Last night Salty Waffle went to a great LinkedIn Seattle meet up, if you were there it was awesome to meet you! Nicole spoke about social media and one of the things many people learned from it was that social can actually help you find a job! Savvy businesses check out everything you have online…

The Social Media Game

An author on wikispaces wrote an article about a game that can be planed at a workshop to teach people about social media. Here is an explanation of how to do it!Props: Instructions (You have to know how to play, in order to play!) A pack of cards: These cards can be created by you or…

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…