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This weeks winner is Nicole Albrecht, congratulations! […]

Recently, online review sites like Yelp and Angies’s List have been drawing a ton of attention for the power they posses when it comes to influencing consumer buying habits. With WiFi available at every turn, the power of persuasion now exists at everyone’s finger tips. The tools of this new found mobility are of course smart phones and tablets. Both provide users with the ability to leave lightening fast comments which in turn are immediately visible for all to see. [...]

Google Webmaster Tools has taken a new stronger stance. Where many companies have relied upon mildly manipulated links to help strengthen their search based marketing, now Google is cracking down. More and more users are seeing notices popping up telling them that they should keep an eye out for links that could be considered either unnatural or artificial and that may being used in order to artificially inflate PageRank. It is interesting to note that Google’s update, nicknamed Panda, was [...]

For better or worse, the new Facebook Timeline layout has now launched. As of March 30th everyone has been switched over to the new design. Now, we already know that many brands and individuals are not happy about the changes. However to make things even more complicated, these change also comes with a whole new set of rules. You see Facebook loves rules! So, as profiles and brand pages have now switched over we thought we would review the Zuckerberg [...]

For quite some time Posse Social Media has used HootSuite to post things for our own social media platforms as well as our clients’. In November 2011 we decided to explore some options and go through a demo with Argyle Social. We decided to stick with HootSuite because, well, why pay for these services when we could get the ones we needed for free? Little did we know how much we would end up needing Argyle. Earlier this month Argyle [...]

Today it was announced that Peyton Manning will be signing with the Denver Broncos as their new Quarterback. This has raised quite the buzz on all social media outlets. I even posted an update to my personal Facebook Profile about the news. The interesting thing about it though, is that the buzz isn’t so much about Peyton Manning or even the Denver Broncos really, it’s mostly about Tim Tebow. The quarterback that took social media by storm this past season [...]

Late Sunday night after the third (but prettiest) day of SXSWi, after I escaped the madness of downtown Austin, I was going through my regular daily news. I checked LinkedIn Today (an awesome news source if you’re on LinkedIn a lot) and found an article by Reuters saying that CNN was going to buy Mashable for a reported 200 million bucks! Mashable is my absolute favorite news source for any and all things social media. I follow Pete Cashmore (the [...]

Pinterest is taking the world by storm. Most of us have seen the the massive influx of posts from our friends on Facebook “Sam Jones posted That’s funny and 138 others to Pinteret.” Because of this new Pinterest obsession, internet marketers have been trying to figure out how to jump in and use Pinterest to their advantage. […]

Why, hello there! My name is Jessica Michelle Martinez and today is my first official day with Posse Social Media. There are not words to describe how excited I am to begin this social media journey. The first thing on my to do list is to introduce myself and let you all know a little bit about me. I am an Austin, Texas native and returned here after attending […]

Recently I was at a local networking event and I was having a casual conversation with two of our current customers when the conversation switched to Twitter. Each was jokingly asking about the difference between a the @symbol and the #hashtag, when to use it when not to use it etc. Now we’ve covered these both in previous posts so I will not go over that again here. However, what was striking to me was the fact that a true [...]