#Tuesday Tips: Get your Google+ Business Page

    This is the page that will help you do it. Getting your page on Google+ is extremely easy and extremely necessary. If you don’t think that Google is going to give more weight or clout to Business pages on plus when it comes to search engine rank, you’re dead wrong. The official Pages… more »

Fun with Google Search and Virality

Warning 1: I’ll be using “cool” fairly liberally in this post . Warning 2: Sometimes, I’m being ironic. Warning 2, sub warning 1: I’m not going to tell you when I’m being ironic :) Every once and awhile, it’s nice to just go out and find something cool that you can show other people –… more »

#Tuesday Tips: Technorati – a Valuable Blogging Resource

This is for all of you who are wondering about the importance or the usefulness of blogging/knowing where to find blogs. For those of you who haven’t heard of Technorati, this may very well be your chance to launch into the blogosphere yourself – or at least learn a couple of things about the blogosphere…. more »

Facebook Dislike Feature Debate

I read this article in Mashable about Facebook blocking their developers and other enterprising developers (using Facebook’s API) from using the verb “Dislike” – right now developers can create any sort of experience they want for their companies or themselves or for whomever they’re developing – but they cannot use the term “Dislike”! This is not… more »

#Tuesday Tips: Buzz Terms – “User Generated Content”

  If you’ve been doing a little research on your own, you have probably heard the term “user generated content” -or perhaps you’ve seen it in it’s acronymic form “UGC” – being thrown around with a fair amount of zeal. Maybe you’ve started to glean that this special term is equal to something like the… more »

#Tuesday Tips: Know Your Social Network’s Terms of Service

This tip is being brought to you for a couple of reasons: 1) Frequently, in our excitement to get to use a product, we click right on through the Terms of Service without giving them a second thought. This is potentially unsettling considering the amount of personal content and information we store on social networks…. more »

Here, There, Everywhere: Thoughts on Cross-Posting Content

On the KimberMedia Facebook page a few days ago  – there was a mini-conversation where we were asked: “How do you feel about posting the same material on Facebook and Twitter at the same time?” This question is a little more loaded than it might seem at first – especially when you have to consider… more »

Look for Customer Motivations in Social Media Activity

I recently wrote a blog post for pluscrunch.com. In this blog post I give tips to new users on how to use Google+ (Google’s new social media platform). My big idea? Make sure you have a purpose. The whole blog is about how an individual should figure out what they want and then once they… more »

The Business of Being Human in Social Media

As social networks continue to become embedded into our society, the ability for businesses to hide behind traditional media starts to fade. Ye Olde Goodie Tymes… Back in the good old days, a business could successfully advertise their product or services without a human element – and when I say human element, I mean there… more »

Tweet-Sized College Admission Essays? It’s happening.

The article “The Twitter Influence: Columbia Business School limits applications essays to 200 characters” via TheNextWeb http://tnw.co/pwToiN The article, for those of you who are summary fans, talks about a creative and innovative way that the Columbia Business School is asking their potential M.B.A. candidates to write their admissions applications; they want them to submit… more »