I recently recorded a Next Stage Business radio show with email expert Jeff Ferrazzo from Constant Contact on how social media and email can work together to provide a powerful marketing combination for businesses. When Jeff and I met beforehand to talk about our agenda for the show, something occurred to me… I was way

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Spare a moment for me to explain something that’s been bugging me for a while? What’s the deal with GPS coordinates in social media profiles – most often, Twitter? This nuance has gone from something I merely had an ambient awareness of, to something that I questioned, to something that started to really annoy me as it

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There’s a lot that I don’t know about social media. The space changes so darn fast, it’s a constant battle just to stay on top of the big stuff. And, what little time I do manage to eek out to do research is usually devoted to the strategic plans of our clients and not my

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2007 was a big year for social media…* Twitter took off at SXSW with tweets tripling during the conference from 20k to 60k per day. The microblogging platform, Tumblr, was born. Facebook hit a growth spurt with over 1 million new users signing up per week, 200,000 per day. 2007 was a big year for

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Read Kary’s five steps to organizing, beautifying, optimizing and putting some extra oomph into your social media presence in her post on the Minnesota Public Relations Blog.

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My ideas for blog posts often come to me like second-rate debutantes, all coiffed and polished, but lacking a partner to usher them onto the dance floor and astound the audience with their grace. Luckily this past week brought me both a debutant and escort in the form of two pieces of media — an

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