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Are you Pintersted in More Social Media

By on February 20, 2012 in Blogging, Social Media

Ok, if you read as many articles as I do (or at least see as many headlines) you’ve surely noticed Pinterest fever among bloggers lately. What’s Pinterest you say? Well, it’s a simple Social Media platform called a Pin Board that lets you share your user generated content in a way that is markedly more [...]

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The Blogger Pyramid

By on February 10, 2012 in Blogging, Leadership

There are just too many blogs out there. Blogging began as a way for experts to share some of their knowledge with the world, and as it became easier and easier to publish online they’ve degraded into a sounding off point for anyone with a WordPress or Blogger account. If you don’t proofread, you probably shouldn’t [...]

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Power Networking Shortfalls: Are you out of touch?

By on February 3, 2012 in Leadership, Social Media

As I fall into a daily routine of managing my extensive social media network and web properties, I have become exceptionally efficient. It takes me about 2 hours every day that I split into blocks of about 20 minutes to maintain this practice. Google knows me; the Chrome browser has my most visited pages outlined [...]

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Planning and the Business Mindset: Why are You Failing Online?

By on February 1, 2012 in Business, Leadership, Social Media

The whole premise of me running this blog is to help YOU, my readers, be more successful in your online interactions. Unless you’re expanding your social presence just for fun or in anticipation of something you plan on doing in the future, part of that interaction is going to be what web developers call “The [...]

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Klout Perks: Beyond the Score

By on January 31, 2012 in Business, Marketing, Social Media

Everyone has their own opinion of Klout, and even though they’ve taken some hard hits along the way their brand has proven to be relatively resilient. After all, you don’t have to like Klout for their service to be a worthwhile success; you have to like the brands they connect you with. I personally love [...]

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5 Tools You Didn’t Know about, but Desperately Need

By on January 30, 2012 in Blogging, Business, Development, Marketing, Social Media

I’ve been developing websites for a relatively long time. There are several misconceptions about the use of the term web developer, and even those hobbyist website designers don’t understand the multitude of skills it takes to be a full service web developer in today’s market. The tools of the trade, the need to know programming [...]

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Social Media Measurement: ROI is Hard to Come By

By on January 27, 2012 in Blogging, Business, Marketing, Social Media

The benefits of a well-run social media campaign are far reaching and long lasting. Most companies agree that even when there is little direct conversion involved, social media is still the place to be, simply because that’s where consumers are. Since there are several ways to add value to your business in the long run [...]

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If it’s On the Internet, it must Be True

By on January 25, 2012 in Blogging, Leadership, Social Media

One of the primary reasons that people have taken to the Internet as a form of entertainment is the need to be creative. 15 years ago writers were limited to print media, which made getting pieces published relatively competitive. At the very least an editor would need to approve your article, which meant that they [...]

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SOPA; We’ve Won a Battle in a War That Will Never End

By on January 19, 2012 in Blogging, Business, Social Media

It isn’t often that the whole Internet agrees on a single topic. Knowing how rare this occasion actually is makes yesterday’s mass blackout in response to the Stop Online Piracy Act all the more special. The unprecedented strike ledthousands of websites to replace their main page with a redirect to one of the many online [...]

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Bucking Perceptions; Mid-Level Marketing and the Fortune 500

By on January 18, 2012 in Business, Marketing, Social Media

Facebook, Twitter and exploratory social media campaigns have become ubiquitous in the marketing departments of the service industry, as well as most retailers and their vertically integrated partners. There is a Facebook icon on every bag of Lays potato chips. You will rarely interact with a company without getting reminded to visit them on Facebook [...]

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