People talk about influence – what it is, how to get it, how influence is guided by numbers and how to attract the attention of influencers for promotional needs. There’s no doubt that influence is a...
A friend of mine went to a Social Media for Small Business conference recently. He’s a small business owner, and has been thinking about using social media for a while. He enjoyed the conference and ...
This is a guest post from Yvette Pistorio of Cision. Two shifts have dramatically changed the way media and public relations professionals interact over the past few years: the move away from email i...
Dear Klout – I have uninstalled your shitty service and blocked your access to my info, period. And yet you’re still trying to get friends to invite me to your crud, never mind invading m...
Years ago I worked in retail on both sides. I started out working for an electrical goods chain store, then moved onto a smaller local one. Both jobs were great (at least for me), because they satisf...
Electricity is free, but we pay energy companies to harness it. Water is free, but we pay for the privilege of filtering. Air is free, but we pay for the solution of conditioning it for summers in ou...
If you’re in the Toronto, Ontario area on July 26, make sure you keep the day free for what promises to be one of the city’s leading social media and business events this year. Top busine...
The print industry is dead, yet we still use a version of ink for the ebooks that killed print. The news release is dead, yet we still count print publication mentions as a measure of success. Advert...
We all want to be famous, whether we admit it or not. We all want the glory of recognition for our work; our media; our creations; our results. To say otherwise is to lie. Of course, the thing is, th...
One of the great things about self-hosted WordPress blogging is the amount of plugins available to help you make your blog just the way you want it. For anyone not on WordPress, plugins are additiona...
Sometimes, I feel as if I should stay away from vacations and personal downtime completely. Case in point – I’m on vacation this week and the thing I did first? Redesigned the blog. But&#...
One of the questions that many businesses ask is how they approach corporate social responsibility. This doesn’t just mean donations to local (or national/international) charities; it also starts at ...
When we envisioned our social media dashboard JugnooMe, our key tenet was to make the social web simple, accessible and monetizable for everyone. This means a solo entrepreneur; a full-on corporation...
Click through the URLs of your commenters to find a new blog, leave a comment and share a new person with your community. Thank 10 followers on each social network you’re on for being there wit...
Often, we change things based on what we see in front of us, or based on perceptions of what we feel is in front of us. It may be that our sales channels are bringing in less than 12 months ago; so w...
The email below arrived in my Inbox this afternoon (click to expand) It was sent in the hope of garnering some press for the company’s website, that helps students connect with potential employ...
To build an empire takes more than one person. It doesn’t matter if you’re a solo entrepreneur, a solo blogger, a solo musician or artist. To truly build an empire takes more than the sol...
One of the biggest questions many bloggers ask is how to monetize their blog. Search for that on Google, for example, and you’ll get over four million results. From having advertisements on your blog...
It’s a question many are asking – can we still trust Google? (In fairness, it’s a question you could ask of any social company). I’ve written about my falling out of “li...
Tuesday April 17 was a big day for JugnooMe, the social business platform from parent company Jugnoo, as we launched a major update to the platform. Originally launched as a private beta late last ye...
Over at UK newspaper The Guardian, Google co-founder Sergey Brin shares his views on the future of the Internet, including web freedom and the restrictive practices of Facebook and Apple. Brin makes ...
Towards the end of last year, my friend Michael Schechter was kind enough to invite me to chat on his 2×4 series. The idea behind 2×4 is simple: one series that examines two topics, creativ...
Okay, so by now everyone and their mother has more than likely heard about the sale of photo app Instagram to Facebook for $1 billion in shares and cash. There are already a phalanx (awesome word, if...
This coming Thursday, April 12, at 1.00pm Eastern / 12.00 noon Central / 10.00am Pacific / 6.00pm GMT, there’s going to be a special interactive Question and Answer session here on the blog. Using th...
It’s scary being unsure. It’s a lot different from being sure. Instead of the safety net of knowledge, there’s the daunting chasm of uncertainty. It’s not easy to step from the warmth of the old to t...
Strong title? Probably – but then PinPal deserves it. Currently in private beta, PinPal is a new start-up that looks to create a casual dating network by using the API’s of Twitter, Faceb...
If social media was the big thing in 2010 and 2011, then mobile is clearly leading the charge for the hearts and minds of both businesses and consumers in 2012. While QR codes and push marketing via ...
So, it looks like Google is entering the comment system fray. Never mind that it smacks of yet another “let’s copy Facebook” move. Nor that there are already excellent comment syste...
Did you doodle at school as a kid? Did you play make-believe games with your friends that took you to other worlds real and imagined? Did you have an invisible friend? Our minds are so free as kids. ...
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