When I was at PubCon 2007 in December, Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz.org started the Social Marketing 101 session by giving us lists of social media websites to watch. I have since visited all, at least to verify the web address. Some I spent time at and will write about later. Others, well, just didn't …
Social Networking
Twitter Gains in Popularity
Thanks to @mashable on Twitter this morning, I learned that Twitter is the most popular word in the English language for 2009. The post by Ben Parr entitled, Twitter Declared Most Popular English Word of 2009, notes that: The Global Language Monitor lists Twitter as the top word of …
Twitter – What the heck is it?
Twitter is a website where friends, family, colleagues - and strangers - can catch up - in real time - using one-liners to announce what they are doing ( i.e. writing a blog post, waiting for a plane, going for coffee), ask a question, respond to someone else's question...basically communicate …
Experimenting with foursquare
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been attending the online 2010 Social Media Summit. I want to stay on top of the latest trends in social networking and social media so that I can provide clients with relevant and timely data, but, also so that I can use what I learn for my own websites. One …
The Value of a Website in a Social Media World
The Value of a Website in a Social Media World is the name of the presentation I gave for the Women's Business Council on Friday, February 14, 2014. The Women's Business Council (WBC) is a sub group of the Marlborough Regional Chamber of Commerce. The presentation was given at the monthly luncheon …
Sole Proprietor Doing it All
It's been an interesting day so far. This morning, I was catching up on the social networking websites and followed a link to a blog post that has ignited passionate responses. The post was written by a sole proprietor and talks how he outsources work to the Philipines, and how he recently read a …
Facebook Vanity Usernames now Available
At of 12:01 a.m., Saturday, June 13, 2009, Facebook released its latest feature - Vanity Usernames. Instead of using the standard username id (profile.php?id=1035661502) or www.new.facebook.com/people/Karen_Callahan/1035661502 URL, you can now create your own username and have a short …
Tweet Value
I am still coming up to speed with all the adjunct websites that have Twitter plug ins and widgets, and was surprised to find a website yesterday, that measures the dollar value of your Twitter profile. Hummmm. How do they do that? What is considered in the measurement? And...how did this website …
What is digg?
Digg is a social media website where people gather to express their opinion about Internet posts. The posts may be news items, articles, or opinions, and span all topics. There is a voting structure in place where each participant can give a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" to a post. Thumbs up is given …