I Like it! A Facebook Like Button for WordPress

For a couple of weeks now, the social media world has been abuzz with the release of Facebook’s “Like” button that has spread across the web like a (dare I say) virus. After the first week, Facebook announced it’s “Like” button, the powerful social network says 50,000 websites have adopted the change. “Already, just one [...]

A Kinder, Gentler Facebook Design

Yet another Facebook Makeover What did Facebook Change? So here’s the scoop – The top navigation has changed. One big change (some may say RADICAL!) is that Facebook’s search bar is on the left – “Oh no! Say it isn’t so! On every site I visit, the search is on the right, what will I [...]

The Amazing Power of “HTTP://”

Huh? What’s that? Or even “yeah, so what…” How many times in an email, Facebook, Twitter or other sites have you seen a web address like this: www.govisitmysite.com and the damn thing isn’t clickable? A little annoying, right? How many times have you copied and pasted the link? My guess… very few. By adding these [...]

What NOT to put on Your Facebook Profile

Teenage fired for complaining about job on Facebook Ok – here’s the deal. Don’t put anything on your social network pages that you don’t want the ENTIRE world to know about. You on Facebook is a window to your life – or so is the perception of people who read what you post on Facebook, [...]

Yes We Can! The Fed Website goes 2.0

Interacting through social media (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and others) is quickly becoming an integral part of business (large, small and entrepreneurial) promotion online. Through Twitter interaction with your followers, you can keep them updated with your goings on and more. Faceboook provides a platform for deeper interaction when you start using their posted items, groups [...]

Social Network Overload!

Ok so here’s a funny albeit, interesting take on the way social networking can start to overrun our daily lives. I am a total proponent of the power of social networking, but never the less this is very funny. Think social networking sites are fun and useful? See what happens when things get a little [...]

9 Simple Steps to a Successful Facebook Event

One of the most productive things you can do on Facebook is to create an event. The numbers of Facebookers taking advantage of this great marketing tool are increasing every month. Your event could be a live event (a Business or Small Business mixer, a networking event or Seminar, etc), a teleclass or tele-seminar or [...]

Ning and the Art of the Viral Spiral

There is a great article in the new Fast Company Magazine all about the do it yourself social network “”Ning”. The article begins by letting us in on a little secret: Here’s something you probably don’t know about the Internet: Simply by designing your product the right way, you can build a billion-dollar business from [...]

200+ Social Networking sites for your viewing pleasure

I figured since I had absolutely nothing better to do I’d compile a list of social networking sites. 230 or so. . . Enjoy, explore, good night, good luck TECHNOLOGY: Slashdot Dzone – Developers CSS Globe DNHour – Domain Name News Pixel Groovy – Web design Design Float – Web design Leet Daily DevelopersNiche INTERNET [...]

10 Steps to Marketing Your Business on Facebook

There are a bunch of social media websites that you can become a part of today like Myspace and Twitter, and they all have their good and bad. The best way to choose a community to become a part of is to evaluate the people who are members. In my opinion, Facebook is one of [...]

Facebook in the LA Times

Finally an article in the mainstream press that gets it. In today’s Los Angeles Times there is (was, if your reading this another day) a very goood article about Facebook. The article, titled: Heads are turning to Facebook really does a great job of explaining the position that Faceboook finds itself in today. As The [...]

Facebook: “We Have Not Been Briefed On OpenSocial”

Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle. Oh really. . . MySpace and Six Apart will announce that they are joining Google’s OpenSocial initiative. Silicon Alley Insider reported the MySpace rumor earlier today. We’ve confirmed that from an independent source, as well as the fact [...]

Which One is More Important? Product or Mailing List?

If you would ask this question, ‘Which one is more important the mailing list or the product?’ any savvy marketer would answer you, ‘The mailing list’. Principally, any wise business person puts the importance of hungry demand (and not just any demand) in front of the product. In other words, there is no product if [...]

Web 2.0: new internet, new etiquette . . . new law?

Copyright and privacy infringement may be taking place on an unprecedented scale, but that doesn’t mean existing laws are irrelevant From “podcast” to “poke”, “wiki” to “weblog”, the internet generation has a language all of its own. But since web guru Tim O’Reilly popularised the phrase “Web 2.0″ in 2004, even those who never considered [...]