Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog and is the founder of #journchat. It doesn’t matter if you’re on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr; your online personality is not only part of your ove...

Andrew Warner is an Internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mixergy. He interviews successful people to learn how they did it. I asked Paul Buchheit for advice on launching startups because he fathered two of this decade’s most successful online products: Gmail and FriendFeed. As part of his ...

Tom Smith is the founder of Trendstream, a research consultancy that specialises in providing research and consultancy on social media, web and mobile. He formerly worked as Head of Consumer Futures at Universal McCann. Social media continues to grow globally in terms of adoption, usage, interest an...

We all know brands are using Twitter — whether or not you want them around. Some of them don’t quite get the medium and just tweet self-serving links or marketing speak, but you won’t find any of those brands here. We’ve handpicked 40 of the best brands experimenting with the mic...

This is a guest posting by Andy Beal, co-author of Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online. Join Andy as he shares more secrets at his Online Reputation Management Workshop on August 7th. Micromedia tools such as Twitter, Plurk, and Pownce have introduced the concept of gro...

In my previous post, we discussed how to build a social media strategy for your business in five steps. The first step every company needs to do is start listening. Of course, this is a process that can be outsourced, but even if you choose to hire someone to assist with this task, it’s important...

I love money. I love getting more money. Who the hell doesn't? Well, my U.S. Bank checking account doesn't really. It kind of settles for the money it's got, which isn't good enough for me anymore. Recently I began a search for a checking account and/or savings account that actually gets me more mon...

Filed under: Business, Stores & Shopping, Lists, New Products, America Trader Joe's is a newcomer to my neck of the woods, opening in Chapel Hill just a few months ago. I'm a huge fan - whenever I can deal with the crowds I head over there to pick up my growing list of favorites. So far my favor...

Here are the top nine things that Amazon could do to expand their business model and make book readers' lives perfect. Electronic copies of the books in your library. One of the things that's keeping me from buying a Kindle is the fact that I have two shelves of books that I haven't read yet. If I b...