How Companies May Pay You to Use Facebook

March 13, 2012

The above screenshot is taken from one of my Facebook friend’s walls. I saw it on my news feed among other friends’ updates of this and that that they wanted to share with me. I blinked at the word “Sponsored” as I hadn’t seen a sponsored update before. Clicking the link, I learned about sponsored [...]

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Credit Cards and Social Media: Failures

March 9, 2012

This is the second part of a guest blog post by Michael Dolen. Last week I shared 3 ways the credit card industry succeeds in social media. But what are some areas which could use improvement? Here are not-so-great moves in the credit card space… Most Counterproductive = Kohls Jeff Bullas has a list of [...]

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Introducing Andy Quayle: IT Professional

March 5, 2012

Andy Quayle is the founder and CEO of Tubu Internet Solutions, the company where I registered this domain and host this blog. (And, yes, that is an affiliate link to reimburse me for a cup of tea.) But Andy is a man of many tech pursuits, including being a police dispatcher and once running a [...]

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Credit Cards and Social Media: Successes

March 2, 2012

This blog post is written by Michael Dolen. Depending on the source referenced, the financial services industry takes second or third place when it comes to online ad spending in the US (as you can probably guess, the retail industry always takes the numero uno). Not surprisingly, many companies in the financial services industry are [...]

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When You Need a Social Media Manager

February 28, 2012

When you need a social media manager, think of me? When you need someone to analyze, recommend, implement, monitor, or otherwise manage your internet presence, from being the voice of your Facebook page to steering tweets to evaluating whether the next best tool is a surefire way to outmaneuver your competition, I want to talk [...]

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Introducing Sean Platt: Internet Grammarian

February 27, 2012

Monday Muse #4 is Sean Platt, who wrote a blog post for me two years ago that delved into his history of blogging anonymously and how his internet life changed when he was found out. But my introduction to Sean was about a year earlier through Writer Dad where he wrote from the heart about [...]

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The Key to Online Success

February 24, 2012

This is a guest post by Gip Plaster. Photo by manicmorff. Still Here: 1 Key to Online Success is Realizing Potential I don’t know Ari very well, but I know we have something in common: We’re still here. No matter whether your reason for participating online is to make money from website ads, promote your [...]

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Top 29 Social Media Managers on Twitter

February 21, 2012

Partially inspired by my Twitter list of social builders, and empowered by web startup list.ly that enables anyone to create a list with any web data and to share that list with the world to be rated and liked, here is a list of the top 29 social media managers on Twitter. This list is [...]

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