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Brand New Webinar
With Google+ becoming a major social networking platform within weeks of its ‘field release’, there is no longer any question that the social web is here to stay. The Google+ platform is not even open to the general public yet. No one knows exactly which direction it...
Google Plus – First Look
I received an invite within hours of it hitting closed beta to the highly-leaked new social networking platform from Google called Google+. After playing with the platform for about three days now, I’d like to share some of my initial thoughts, reactions, and predictions.
Refining Your Twitter Followers
Twitter is a great platform to use as part of social media marketing plan, but if after using Twitter – following people, having people follow you, getting amplification by re-Tweets, etc. – you are not finding value, maybe it’s time to clean up your relationships!
Podcasting Interview – For Immediate Release Podcast
Lynette Young was interviewed this week by Shel Holtz for a For Immediate Release show about the Podcast Pavilion, the special podcast space that will be part of the BlogWorld and New Media Expo taking place in New York May 24-26.
Moms Love Smartphones
It's no surprise that mothers love technology, especially when it comes to making their family and lives easier to juggle. According to a recent eMarketer article, smartphone ownership is much higher among moms (6.1 hours per day) than the general population...
Tips for Successful Business In-Person Networking
Tips and ideas to make your in-person business networking event successful and prosperous.
The 10 Worst Social Media Ideas For Business
Over the years of working with businesses to get them involved in social media, expand their success, or dig out of a failure, we have come across some of the worst business ideas around! This type of thinking has stifled companies from successfully moving ahead using social media. By identifying these ideas and working on improvements head-on you can improve the way your business interacts and attracts business.
Twitterverse
OneForty.com & Brian Solis make a clickmap of the expansive social media universe spun off from Twitter. Think you can’t do much with Twitter’s 140 character messages? Think again…
Using Quora to be an online expert
This week’s biggest buzz is Quora, an ‘online knowledge market’ that allows people to post – and answer – questions on a multitude of topics. Quora aggregates questions and answers to many topics and allows users to collaborate on them, providing a bit of a social platform as well self-regulation of the community.