By now you must know that social media behemoth Facebook has thrown itself into the fast-growing location marketplace with its Places product. Places allows smart phone users (for now, just iPhone or phones with a mobile browser via touch.facebook.com) to “check in” at businesses and other locations and share their location with their friends on Facebook. If [...]
Category Archives: public relations
Twylah Turns Your Twitter into a Blog
August 12, 2010 – 1:50 pm
Twylah may be the best yet online upgrade to the default twitter.com interface, particularly if you’re desiring to build interactivity with your account and the brand it represents. Twylah automatically collects all your tweets on a nicely-branded, blog-like page. When you send out a tweet via Twylah, the program automatically appends a bit.ly link to [...]
Lowering the Barrier to Video in Your Social Media
August 10, 2010 – 1:18 pm
It’s a no-brainer that including media brings life to any campaign. This is especially true in the hyperactive world of social media, where a constant barrage of posts vies for the attention of potential fans and followers. Of course, when it comes to attention-grabbing, a picture is (perhaps literally) worth a thousand words. And a [...]
Facebook Community Pages Suck
May 14, 2010 – 11:24 am
If you’re a Facebook user, you were recently forced to either allow Facebook to turn all the keywords in your profile’s Info tab into active connections to “Community Pages” or have them removed. Entirely removed. No middle ground. That sucked. But it wasn’t even half the suck. I had reluctantly said yes to community pages, [...]
Should Your Business Be on Buzz?
February 25, 2010 – 2:17 pm
Just when you thought you had your social media game plan (you do have one, right?) all nice and set, Buzz happens. It’s like the NFL suddenly announces a new team halfway through your fantasy league season. What is Buzz? In brief, it is a Google-developed social web platform that is tightly integrated with other [...]
Google’s Sidewiki: The Only Thing to Fear Is…Not Much?
September 28, 2009 – 7:29 am
Proving once again that it is the Santa Claus of the Internet, Google last week announced yet another free toy: Google Sidewiki. Sidewiki is an addition to the Google Toolbar (so far only for Firefox and Internet Explorer) that allows anyone to leave comments and links on any web page anywhere on the Internet. The [...]
Update on SEC’s Bad Call
August 20, 2009 – 6:21 am
RE: My post yesterday “The SEC Makes One Hell of a Bad Call“ The New York Times reports today that the SEC has clarified their rule. Turns out they weren’t really after Joe Bleachersitter sending his blurry phone cam picture of pinpoint-sized outfielders to his Facebook page. The real targets of their rule, they say, [...]
The SEC Makes One Hell of a Bad Call
August 19, 2009 – 6:05 am
College sports’ Southeastern Conference (SEC) has probably had to overrule a few bad calls by umpires in its day. This week it was forced to overrule one of its own calls. The conference had actually proclaimed a ban on any and all social media postings about its games by fans at the games. This meant [...]
