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June 1st, 2010 by Bethany North
If you have been trying to turn a blind eye on your behavior in social media, now it is time to face the music. Everyone out there has the ability to access what you discuss and do online, especially with the more popular websites, like Twitter and Facebook. Yes, much of your social media information is accessible, especially if your…
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May 26th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
“Making hay while the sun shines” was a popular saying in the farming world of yesteryear. These days it may even be as popular. If you don’t harvest those crops FarmVille might let them wither and die.
Zynga’s FarmVille is one of the biggest draws on Facebook. Planting, tending, watering and harvesting virtual crops so that bigger and bigger farm…
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May 24th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Image courtesy of Twitter.com
Another travel season has arrived, and many seasoned world travelers will be cranking up the RVs and dusting off the sky miles. In a tough economy however, it can be a real challenge to get a decent vacation without spending a fortune. Welcome to the age of technology, where a little elbow grease at the old…
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May 19th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
The anti-social element is creeping into the social media. It doesn’t take long for the contrarians to make a 180 degree turn with every step in the social direction. Take for example the new Avoidr app that can be used by Foursquare users.
As anyone can guess, rather than a meet up location finder Avoidr allows users to mark certain…
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May 18th, 2010 by SEM Contributor
Twitter is not just a popularity contest to see how many followers you can amass – it’s also a way to make money. People who already have huge followings are finding Twitter an easy to keep in touch with their fans. They’re also being paid to send ads by advertisers who want to reach those fans.
For example, this dish…
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May 17th, 2010 by SEM Contributor
Spamming has been in evidence ever since the Internet began to mature and people realized they could reach masses of people relatively easily. It began with email, and when that was found to no longer be effective, folks got creative.
Nowadays you can find blog spam, comment spam, forum spam, Facebook spam, Twitter spam, LinkedIn spam, Spammed Ham… Oh wait……
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May 13th, 2010 by Bethany North
I don’t know about you, but I hardly hear about MySpace anymore, unless a band is promoting their page.
More and more people are sharing in the addiction of Facebook, so where does that leave MySpace for the future?
Most recently, the co-president of MySpace, Jason Hirschhorn, was interviewed to find out more about his views on the future of…
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May 12th, 2010 by SEM Contributor
The social media world has reinforced one truth surrounding blogging: it is horribly ineffective when used in isolation. News bloggers, political pundits, and editorial content mills have all shown us that blogging, as a communications method, is simply too long-form to survive when placed beside short-form social media services such as Facebook and Twitter. As length increases, interest fades, and…
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May 11th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
What would life be like without a cell phone, computer and all the social media links associated with them? A new study labelled “24 Hours Unplugged” asked college students to resist the use of social media links including cell phones and computer use for 24 hours. They lived to write about it.
And write they did. The 200 students who…
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May 10th, 2010 by Bethany North
Yes, everyone you know out there has a Facebook and possibly Twitter account, but there is still a right and a wrong way to approach social media.
To begin with, you may want to be careful with anything you say in the public environment of Twitter. There was an actual situation in Chicago where someone talked badly about the state…
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