Category Archives: Social Media

How Mobile Location-​​Based Apps Will Change Your Business in 2010

A new report pub­lished by Jupiter Juniper Research fore­casts a rapid growth trend for mobile location-​​​​based ser­vices, dri­ving rev­enues to more than $12.7 bil­lion by 2014. Image by waynesutton12 via Flickr What does this mean for your busi­ness? If you have an offline busi­ness, you stand to imme­di­ately ben­e­fit from location-​​​​based ser­vices. Here’s a few of the most

H@x0R3D!

Sorry folks, about the crazy site redi­rec­tion some of you got here recently. Looks like this site was hacked. I was able to take care of it pretty quickly, but this attack had some weird char­ac­ter­is­tics: It hijacked my pages and redi­rected my US vis­i­tors to a China sex site (NSFW but not really porn) Some of

Abandoned Business Social Network Profiles? The Real Cost To Your Company

Do you have social net­work pro­files that you just can’t seem to keep up with? If so, I’ve got a lit­tle story to tell you. A recent client of mine, a small cor­po­ra­tion, once had an employee who cre­ated social net­work pro­files all over the inter­net. This employee finally moved on to other things after 2 years, but left

Blogalicious09 Radio Series — Join Me There Tonight

Just want to let you all know that I’ll be inter­viewed on Talk­shoe tonight on the Blo­ga­li­cious series. If you’re not famil­iar with Blo­ga­li­cious, it’s the first con­fer­ence of it’s kind for women of color. It was last month (Octo­ber ’09) and gave women of color who are blog­gers an oppor­tu­nity to be rec­og­nized for

Google Wave’s Viral Campaign

Search Engine giant Google, has shown the world how it is reshap­ing the way com­mu­ni­ca­tion hap­pens over the inter­net with the soft launch of Google Wave. And it has done so in a way it knows best – through invite based viral mar­ket­ing. Image by mar­ket­ing­facts via Flickr The inter­net wit­nessed tremors of excite­ment when 100,000

Mommy Blogging, Mompreneurs, and Multi-​​Cultural Women: The New Social Media Darlings

For the past year, I’ve been asked to speak at a num­ber of inter­net mar­ket­ing con­fer­ences. Image via Wikipedia That, in itself, is not odd since I’ve been speak­ing at web con­fer­ences since 2002. What has been dif­fer­ent this time is the types of con­fer­ences I’ve been asked to speak at lately. They’ve all been con­fer­ences

Secret Ways Bands Use Social Media to Develop A Following

Recently I was inter­viewed by an amaz­ing writer for www.Examiner.com on Social Media for bands. The arti­cle picked up some speed and got picked up by Asso­ci­ated Con­tent. Image by DbryJ Music via Flickr In it, I share some of the best secrets I’ve learned about how bands are using social media to pro­mote their tours and music.