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Is Your Company Pinteresting? Is Your Company Pinteresting?

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:45:07 +0000

NetWeave now offers Service for Pinterest If you monitor the buzz about social media platforms, you’ve probably heard a lot about Pinterest lately. Pinterest allows users to create virtual “pinboards” that feature pictures and graphics that revolve around themes of the users choosing. For instance, a user may create a cooking pinboard that has photos …

Facebook Rolls Out Timelines for Pages

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:41:46 +0000

If you’ve spent more than a couple of minutes on Facebook, you know how much they like to change things to keep it fresh and, hopefully, relevant to users. You also know that every once in a while, Facebook rolls out a major change which generally starts with individual user profiles and eventually encompasses business …

Social Media for Job Hunters

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:51:28 +0000

Tonight we got to speak to the students of ITT Tech in Bradenton about using social media as part of a job hunt. We thought we’d blog some resources here that they – and anyone else looking for a job – can use in their quest. Situational Awareness Employers are checking social media on applicants and …

Beware the Apps

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:42:28 +0000

The flood of new Facebook “Lifestyle” apps began last week, expanding the “frictionless sharing” that Facebook has touted ever since last year’s F8 conference, and which it debuted in the limelight with notables like the Washington Post Reader and Spotify. Now is the rush of new verbs, and you can see what people are not …

Cunard Catching Social Media Flak for Messing with Tradition

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:40:41 +0000

Among those with a mind for the tradition of the sea and the golden age of ocean liners, Cunard conjures up majestic images of stately ships and impeccably British service. Cruise conglomerate Carnival Corporation, who bought the Cunard brand in 1998, found out this week just how attached its fans were to that imagery when …

Facebook Resources

admin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:35:20 +0000

Today we’re talking Facebook for business with our friends at the US Swim School Association. So we’re putting up a few helpful resources for those kind folks and everyone else who could use a tip or two. First off, some basics like difference between Profiles and Pages: For more on just how big Facebook has …

LinkedIn Announces Company Pages!

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:43:14 +0000

LinkedIn introduced Company Profiles a while back, but until today they were simply repositories for “about us” type information – you really couldn’t do any proactive communications as a company. Status updates were reserved for personal profiles. Today that all changed. Today, LinkedIn rolled out Company Pages, a way for administrators to finally publish status …

Announcements from Facebook’s F8 Conference

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:10:52 +0000

If you thought the changes released early morning Wednesday were big, you should hear what Facebook announced today! As Ben Parr from Mashable said yesterday, “Facebook’s goal is to become the social layer that supports, powers and connects every single piece of the web, no matter who or what it is or where it lives.” And those ambitions are …

Your Guide to Recent Facebook Changes

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:59:58 +0000

So far, for each of the following Facebook changes announced on their blog, about 20, 000 people have posted responses complaining about the changes. That sounds like a lot until I tell you that 748,980,000 people didn’t complain. In other words, it’s this all over again. So what are the changes? Let me explain… no, there …

Facebook and LinkedIn Resources

admin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:00:25 +0000

I recently spoke with a business group on the merits of Facebook and LinkedIn for business use. Since our chat was all too brief, I wanted to place some resources on our website for attendees to refer to when they needed to know more. It occurred to me everyone may like to see such a list, so …