Climb, Climb, Climb! Get Up The Social Media Ladder

Once upon a time we looked at the 6 Stages Of Twitter Evolution and even had an infograpahic to help you figure out which kind of Twitterer you are. Well, along the same lines, we’ve found a great look at a progression through social media participation and information gathering. It comes in a very appropriate…

3 Top Notch Social Media Dashboards

Trying to track all that great social media data? Yup! It has to be done if you want to be really successful with your social efforts. We’ve tried quite a few and talked with others about their experience and have narrowed it down to 3 full service tracking platforms with a focus on social media….

Stay On Top Of Social Media With Topsy

With social networks driving traffic the way they do and the sheer amount of content that is being linked to and shared through Twitter and Facebook on a daily basis, the ability to search those networks in real-time is valuable. Google indexes and crawls fast, but it can’t keep up with the daily deluge of…

Failing Forward By John C. Maxwell

Have you ever read the book Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell?  If you haven’t, I highly recommend it.  If you have, you know it’s an awesome book that shows you how to make the most of your mistakes and move forward to your ultimate goal.  It tells you how to look at life’s setbacks,…

Social Media Vocabulary: 5 Tools For Tracking Social Media Sentiment

This week, social media vocabulary is taking a look at some tools that will help you take stock of your sentiment on your social networks. Are your tweets mostly positive? Mostly negative? These will look at Twitter so if you come across some others that focus on Facebook or others, let us know! Twendz: Twendz…

5 Twitter Tools With Unique Features

The latest and the greatest change everyday. Here are a few of our favorites to try out! The Archivist: While not a truly complete Twitter archive, The Archivist allows you to look up any search term and view its history on Twitter. You can see top users of the term, how much it’s been tweeted,…

Your Tweets Are Worth Ca$h

The last election popularized the idea of donating your presence in social media to a candidate. Since then, Causes and other sites have been using this practice to spread the word about various charitable campaigns. To support a particular cause, you simply allow the Facebook application to post a message on your behalf to your personal…

Getting Social with Super Bowl XLVI

Are you ready for some football?  Ready or not this year’s Super Bowl could be the most social event yet.  It may not be the ritual you’re used to but the social media buzz has gotten louder and louder for the most epic game day in America.  Twitter, Facebook and Google+ are taking advantage of social media…

Twittiquette: A Good Twitizen’s 21 Point Checklist

Etiquette is as important on social networks as it is at interviews and fancy dinners. You don’t wear cut-off jeans to formal events or chew with your mouth open at a business dinner, so don’t do the equivalent by forgetting your twitter manners! There are certain things that you can’t get away with on Twitter. Twittequette is an…