If you’ve spent much time on the Internet, you have probably heard the buzz about social media and social media marketing. Social media marketing is a great opportunity to network, promote and advertise your business on a wide level for no cost. If you aren’t in the social media game, you’re n...

Written by Darrell Etherington. Though I couldn’t attend OMMA Social San Francisco (I’m so far away, and my travel budget is currently non-existent), I did enjoy this article from MediaPost summarizing five key takeaways from the social media conference. The article’s author, Cathe...

Disclosure, this is work-related It’s really cool when you can take an idea and make it more interesting. I proposed shooting a webinar series with David Alston from Radian6. I’ve been such a fan of the app that I wanted to introduce it to more folks via my company’s webinar offeri...

[fr] Leçons apprises lors de la promotion de Going Solo: communiquer directement avec les gens (messagerie instantanée, conversation offline, téléphone) est le mode de communication le plus efficace ne pas négliger l'e-mail, les dossiers de presse, le matériel imprimable: tout le monde ne lira...

Honestly, I’ve never heard of 9rules until Cyperhack and Liewcf blogged about their acceptation into the 9rules. With such blogs uttering their excitement, I’m curious of what the heck 9rules is. So I gave them a visit. Bearing the slogan “The Best Content From The Independent Web&...

Last month, I wrote about the ease of FriendFeed to spy on your friends. In other words, I can check someone’s Friendfeed page and get any information I want about them, including when they are actively engaged in social media activities and how much of a priority social media is to them in th...

I was pretty hard on a so-called PR practitioner whose bad blog pitch went awry and got him into social media trouble. So, I thought perhaps we should take a crack at helping PR people who would like to pitch bloggers but don’t know how. Ogilvy PR developed its own outreach code of ethics, which i...

I’m a huge fan of SMM (Social Media Marketing), and I think it’s an amazing way to get yourself noticed if you have the right content. One thing that does sort of get under my skin though is that there are so many people out there trying to game social media and social networking service...

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