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Category Archives: Social Media

Social Media 101 For Politicians

Note-Sharkbait would prefer to stay out of the political arena but today we’d just like to make a few comments about yesterday’s election. As we all know, Barack jumped on the social media bandwagon early enough to get some pretty substantial coverage just for his use of Facebook alone. Now that President Obama has entered [...]

How Social Media Will Improve Corporate Governance

How is social media changing the way that CEOs and corporations are applying commendable corporate governance to the way they run their companies? The jury is still out on how, but there have been a few notable examples of how social media has affected corporate responsibility. The NWC the National Whistleblowers Center is now on [...]

Dipping Your Big Toe in the Social Media Deep End

So it’s 2010 and everyone is talking about Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and more… It makes a lot of people simply want to throw their hands in the air and just forget it all. Unfortunately it is 2010, and this is the new reality of marketing your business in the new social media landscape. It can [...]

Why Should Your Company Post On YouTube?

How Social Media Is Changing the World

Before planning a recent vacation, I put a question on Twitter using the name of the small Central American town by tagging it with a #-hashtag. I asked if anyone knew of any taxis that service the area that were safe and reliable. Within a few hours I had received a reply from someone who [...]

13 Steps to Social Media Excellence

I was a on a plane over the weekend and was paging through a airplane magazine that had a list of 12 ways to get fit for 2010. As we get prepped and ready to enter the New Year with specific goals, it might be a good idea to look at 13 ways to prepare [...]

10 Things You Should Have Done in 2009 to Improve Your Social Media Cred

At a recent trade show, we were discussing social media with a large private jet company. The director of marketing said that they really don’t need a social media strategy because they don’t have a whole lot to say and that their customers don’t use Facebook… AHHHH, OK THEN…………. If any folks out there are [...]

Can Your Customers Even See Your Social Media Musings?

Those of us in the social media arena might be in for quite a surprise as we venture outside of the major metro areas where most of us banter on about the wonders of social media. But just as any other marketing source, if the end user can’t see our social media musings, does it [...]