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Reflections on the Internet Blackout: SOPA and PIPA and their Effects on Us as a Society

By On January 23, 2012 · 3 Comments

The proposed Internet blackout of January 18th, 2012 wasn’t necessarily a threat made by the major players in the online arena: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Etc. Moreover it was the concept of a silent protest. It was a sit-in. A week later, we now know that it wasn’t going to come to fruition exactly as outlined. Sure, Google blacked [...]

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Is anyone listening? Measuring social media ROI.

By On August 16, 2011 · 8 Comments

Hello…hello? Is this thing on?

Often times participating in social media can feel like yelling into the wind or standing at the edge of the forest and wondering if there is anyone out there? And how do you know if they hear you?

I think this unknown is one of the largest obstacles for many [...]

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What are Your Connection Rules?

By On August 9, 2011 · 4 Comments

From the start the lines have been clear to me. Facebook for family and friends; Linkedin for business associates (which occasionally included a friend who I was also connected with on a business level). I wouldn’t “friend” anyone on Facebook with whom I wasn’t “friendly” with in my personal life and I didn’t “connect” on [...]

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Top Facebook Recruiting (Job) Apps

By On June 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Top Facebook Recruiting (Job) Apps by Monthly Active Users

The below table contains a list of Facebook apps found when searching the Facebook App Directory for the term “Jobs”.

To make the list more user friendly, I added the number of monthly active users for each of the listed Facebook

Recruiting [...]

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Google Plus One – it is too early to like it . . .

By On April 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Google launches a social function again that is difficult to “like”.

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Facebook's New Pages Changes

By On February 11, 2011 · 3 Comments

Never willing to leave content stagnant, Facebook has just rolled out the Beta for their new pages administrators. While these changes will be familiar to users who have recently been given the new users profiles the changes to pages is significant enough to warrant caution.

The first change to Facebook pages is the layout. [...]

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Easy Social Media Failings

By On February 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Social Media is the golden cow in terms of interaction from a business perspective. You have all of your potential clients or customers in one place with nearly unlimited information available to you on what they like, dislike and are indifferent to in the world. So why not dive in and use all of [...]

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