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…
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…
Here at Salty Waffle, almost all of our work is done remotely. Our ability to do this is in large part due to the tools we use everyday. We have a service to make conference calls easy, we use Google Docs to share information, and with our cool phones we can post on the go. As we collect…
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…
It’s something most of us don’t think about on a regular basis, but the safety of your online data is always at risk. Twitter has well publicized up-time issues and even the behemoth’s like Facebook and Google have a little kinks in the line once in a while. When you start thinking about the possibility of losing…
They say Monday is the day you catch up on all those things from the weekend and that Tuesday is the day you really start working. Well, email may just have something to do with how unproductive Mondays can be. Across a variety of studies, email is shown to reduce your ability to focus on…
We’ve covered all kinds of social networks in the past with previous editions of social media vocabulary, so when I realized a couple of my favorite alternative networks were missing, I knew it was time to get them their time in the sun. This week’s theme is fitness and health. As you will see, there…
This week has touched on social media influence and social media ROI. So, what ties those two together nicely? Social media analytics! We’ve gone over some tools for measuring your influence and tracking your efforts, but now what do you with that information exactly? Unfortunately, no one answer is right for every person or every…
Let’s be honest, one-on-one is great, but who hasn’t thought about the college threesome or even an office foursome? I mean, get out your webcam right? OK, OK! Sorry, before this gets too much farther and I get into trouble, what I’m really talking about does involve multiple people and a webcam, but our activities…
In many ways, Google controls the fate of your website. You simply have to pay attention to how Google is assigning value to links and be constantly aware of changes to their algorithm if you want to rank high and come up on that all important first page. Lately, the emphasis has been on integrating information from…