Social media

7 Reasons I’m Loving Rebelmouse

January 21, 2013

I’m loving Rebelmouse* and if you’re running a business, and acknowledging the importance of social media, you will too. Its main benefit is pulling all of your favorite content into one simple and automatically updated, always, page. Your favorite content might be your favorite  or most relevant business content, for example, or simply your own. [...]

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I Can Find Research to Prove Anything

January 8, 2013

One of these days I’m going to start a new consulting company based on the sad truth that in today’s world a good search turns up nice-looking data to prove anything.  For example, you want eggs to be bad for you? We’ll find research to prove it. No? You want eggs to be good for [...]

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True Story: Social Media Morality Tale

December 18, 2012

The Chronicle of Higher reported last week on this news item on a social media director getting caught lying about her resume and exposed via social media:  … social-media director quit her post on Monday after it was alleged that she had lied about graduating from college on her résumé—an assertion that, ironically, first bubbled up [...]

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Can Research Make You Dumber?

December 13, 2012

(Reposted with permission from my social media business plans blog) Can research make you dumber? It can if you believe it. I just read Can Facebook Make You Fat and Poor? on Mashable. It’s a post by David Mielach, of BusinessNewsDaily. In particular, the researchers found that social media users were more likely to binge eat and [...]

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Q&A: Who Do I Follow For Business Twitter

December 11, 2012

(Note: This is my post from smbplans.com, where I posted it yesterday. I was asked to repost it here.)  Here’s another good question I received from my Ask-me form on my Timberry.com website:  If I’m trying to build my Twitter presence to support my [omitted] business, who should I follow? How do I find them? [...]

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The So-Called Arrogance of Gen Y Social Media Managers

July 23, 2012

Last Friday NextGen Journal published Cathryn Sloane’s Why Every Social Media Manager Should be Under 25. Her main point was: We spent our adolescence growing up with social media. … we learned to use social media socially before professionally, rather than vice versa or simultaneously.  To many people in the generations above us, Facebook and Twitter [...]

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10 Signs You’re Too Deep in Social Media

June 25, 2012

Lists like these are fun, and, by the way, I’ve been told that lists of 3, 5, and 10 are particularly good as blog headlines. My title here is taken directly from Rohit Bhargava’s 10 Signs You May Have An Unhealthy Relationship With Social Media on his Influential Marketing Blog.  Here’s the complete list:   You [...]

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Whoops! New PR, New World

June 11, 2012

Oh dear. Those nasty activists. It looked at first like PR gone bad. me thinking it was dumb of Shell Oil to send a press release huffing and puffing about “activists” making fun of it. It looked like a press release. Curse you, activists! And like that. Shell is supposedly considering suing. The press release says:  [...]

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Rebelmouse: New Social Media Curation Site

June 6, 2012

Please join me in congratulating Paul Berry (@teamreboot on Twitter) on today’s launch of RebelMouse. Jay Yarow just called it “a combination of the biggest social publishing platforms on the web” in his post about it on Business Insider this morning, and I guess that’s a pretty good description. A picture is even better, so [...]

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Facebook Needs at Least One Woman on Its Board

April 2, 2012

(Note: I posted this earlier today on the Huffington Post. I’m reposting it here because this is my main blog, and I believe what I wrote, so I want it here too.) Why would a startup as important as Facebook, run by somebody as young as Mark Zuckerberg, whose users are more than 50 percent [...]

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