Social media is fast becoming a way of life for all of us. We connect with friends and family more quickly and cheaply than ever. In this day and age long distance phone calls are becoming a charge of the past. We know more about the world around us in a blink of an eye; in fact we know when important (and not so important) events are happing virtually the second after they have happened. So, what does this mean [...]
The use of social media is growing every day. Although it is not the answer to all your prayers, it can give you some great tools and benefits that make you business work. In fact these tool work to make your business work. Here are numbers 4-6 of my top 9 benefits that social media can offer your small (or not so small) business. […]
With the launch of Google’s new social networking platform you would think it would be great for businesses right. Not so much right now, it turns out. Once Google has things optimized on Google+ for businesses, then it may turn out to be the best thing since sliced bread. Google assures us that they will get set up for businesses. In the mean time, there are great reasons to go ahead and set up a personal account with Google+. Just [...]
As most of you already know there was a 5.8 earthquake centered in Mineral, Virginia on Tuesday August 23 at 1:51 in the afternoon Eastern Standard Time. This quake was felt and reported from many different locations in an approximately a 650 km radius. That is as far north as Ontario, Canada, east into Kentucky, and as far south as South Carolina. […]
Social Media Marketing is a great way to get you message, products, and missions out there and engage your customers/patrons. In today’s world there are a million different ways to collect data in order to better understand and utilize your participant’s data. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to go from savvy business person to creepy big brother. Do not fear. There are great ways to get the information you are seeking without alienating your followers! […]
When most of us think of art museums we think of stuffy, formal places that are populated by stuffy and formal people. These places are often in big population centers and not everyone can have access to them. This is simply not the case any more. Today, museums are wonderful places to see and interact with art without ever leaving home. Art museums have come into the digital age some in a very big way. […]
Make no mistake about it, we are smack in the middle of the information overload age where FB posts, Tweets and blog posts move along at a hyper-speed pace. It’s a time where what you say online really matters. You can tell friends about products you’ve used, rate your best restaurants, pretty much give your opinion on just about anything. But you better be careful, what you say because it could come back to haunt you! Why? […]
If you were to take a wild guess as to how many people are using LinkedIn, how many would you say? Ten million? Twenty million? Truth be told, there are now in excess of 120 million people using the service with exponential numbers joining on a weekly basis. According to experts at Jobvite, at least 87% of companies are now recruiting through LinkedIn. That being said, if you even remotely suspect that you will be looking for a new job [...]
Most everyone who has ever read a book can tell you just how much a bookmark can help. It holds your place so that you will be able to go back to your favorite spots whenever you wish. The great thing is that the same can be done for individual web pages or sites. All browsers today offer a means of being able to bookmark the site you want to keep. Once you go back online you can then pull [...]
Once upon a time – actually not too long ago at all – there came a social media maven by the name of Gary Vaynerchuk. Mr. Vaynerchuk was interviewed on a popular show and made a comment that caused a great deal of headshaking and handwringing. Gary stated that 99.5% of social media experts are clowns. True story folks… Now, I know that this happened back in June, but there are still quite a few people in an uproar over [...]
