Socialympics: Social Media Favorites from 2012 Summer Games
I love the Olympics. This year, I was a complete fanatic. I watched until the wee hours every morning and because of the magic of social media, I saw a…
Tips for an Effective Email Marketing Campaign
Like any consumer, you know what you want to see in your inbox. Spam immediately will be deleted. Useful items may be kept around for a little bit. If the…
Patients Force Progress for Hospitals to Use Social
It used to be that you would visit your doctor, receive a diagnosis and let nature take its course. These days, in addition to routine doctor visits, many patients are…
New Google+ Notifications Improve Engagement
Google+ has made engagement with others just a bit easier. It used to be that if you wanted to read or respond to something on Google+, you had to log…
Top 3 Personal Finance Apps to Keep Your Budget on Track
Now that Tax Day is behind us, it’s time to figure out what to do with your refund. And if you’re not expecting one, you now have time to fix…
Managing a Community: All in a Day’s Work
I used to think journalists were the supreme jacks of all trades. But then I did some research on community managers, and I think they might actually take the cake.…
Brand Pages on Twitter: Hot or Not?
It’s just a couple months in and the jury’s still out on whether Twitter’s brand pages are worth the time and tweets. In December, Twitter launched a small grouping of…
Pew Research Says 17% of Adults Use Restaurant Review Sites
I’ve covered tourism and restaurants for a long time. My approach to finding new venues to explore – and in this case, new restaurants to eat – has always been…
Protecting privacy: What the Facebook/FTC settlement means for users
I’ve always found it kind of difficult to protect information on Facebook. Ideally, it wouldn’t be this hard. But with an endless assortment of ways to customize a profile, one…
Brands who 'get' Google+
When Google+ recently opened its doors to brands, companies scrambled to put up their pages. SocialTimes has reported that around 61 percent of the top brands have created Google+ pages.…