Coolest Retro Photo App: Instagram or Streamzoo

Posted by Katherine Meyer on September 28, 2011 · 15 Comments

Share Retro photo apps are all the rage. And for good reason. Fact: People love sharing pictures online. There are over 200 million photos uploaded to Facebook per day, which means there are more than 6 billion uploads per month. Much to the chagrin of digital camera makers, smartphones are becoming more and more ubiquitous [...]

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How To Enable Facebook’s New Timeline

Posted by Katy Ryan Schamberger on September 26, 2011 · 19 Comments

ShareQuestions about how to enable Facebook’s new Timeline feature is the latest hot topic in social media and technology. And for good reason — it virtually transforms not just your Facebook page, but the entire experience of the site, too. The only flaw in the plan? Timeline isn’t yet publicly available. You may have noticed [...]

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Sarcasm Lovers Rejoice: Sarcasm Font Has Arrived

Posted by Katherine Meyer on September 11, 2011 · 22 Comments

Share Coming from a family of jokesters, it was pretty much a given that I would ultimately learn to develop a thick skin (well, frankly, I was forced to do so). It was also imperative that I learn the art of quick repartee as a form of self-preservation much like other children learn to walk. [...]

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Facebook Privacy Breach: 2 Settings You Need to Check NOW

Posted by Shelly Kramer on August 10, 2011 · 53 Comments

Share Today I noticed two separate alerts about Facebook privacy breaches and thought I’d pop them into a blog post with instructions on how to remedy. The first has to do with browsing – and I would have never noticed it had I not seen Danny Brown’s status update mentioning it. Kudos to you, Danny. [...]

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Rapportive: A Plugin That Makes Your Life Easier

Posted by Katherine Meyer on July 13, 2011 · 5 Comments

ShareSo there are a ton of plugins out there that beef up your browser and generally make it more dynamic and useful. One cool plugin I stumbled across that does just that is Rapportive. Rapportive is a free plugin for Chrome and Safari users. Sorry IE users! A quick aside — why in the world [...]

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Facebook Photo Tagging For Pages: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Posted by Shelly Kramer on July 2, 2011 · 4 Comments

ShareOne of Facebook’s newer features, photo tagging for pages, extends the power of brands; yet it’s one that, in our opinion, should be used carefully. You can get the full scoop on the new photo tagging feature here, but, to sum it up, Facebook pages can now be tagged in photos. This means brands, products [...]

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How to Run A Successful Facebook Contest

Posted by Shelly Kramer on June 12, 2011 · 6 Comments

Share We’ve all seen them. Facebook contests are all but impossible to ignore. Headlines scream “Be our 5,000th fan and get a gift certificate!” “‘Like’ our page in the next two weeks and be entered to win a prize!” Yep—Facebook contests and promotions are becoming increasingly prevalent as brands and businesses seek to expand their audiences [...]

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Men Using Social Media? Oh Yeah.

Posted by Shelly Kramer on May 23, 2011 · 1 Comment

Share We work with a number of very large organizations, many of whom are just venturing into the social media realm. Without exception, the prevailing notion we encounter is that social media is for young people. And, in our experience, the people most often likely to ascribe to that notion are middle-aged professionals and businessmen. [...]

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Venturing Out Into Social Media? Start Here

Posted by Shelly Kramer on April 28, 2011 · 18 Comments

Share Although many major companies are still skeptical about getting involved in the social landscape – research shows 96% of these brands expect to dedicate more time and resources to social media initiatives over the next year. While more brands are familiar with social media now, knowing that you probably need a presence in the [...]

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How Hospitals Could Use Social Media

Posted by Shelly Kramer on April 25, 2011 · 5 Comments

Share People don’t often associate warm and fuzzy feelings with visiting the hospital – or even the doctor’s office for that matter. In fact, dealing with hospitals often feels about as personal as talking with someone who shows up with a paper bag over their head like this joker. But social media – wait, let [...]

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Free Facebook iFrames Applications. And Superheroes

Posted by Shelly Kramer on March 31, 2011 · 13 Comments

ShareFacebook has been introducing an incredible number of changes in the recent weeks. One of those changes was effective March 10th, when Facebook no longer allowed customization of Fan Pages with the very popular “Static FBML” app and moved to requiring pages be built using iFrames. Many fan pages relied on the Static FBML app [...]

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Company Facebook Page

Posted by Shelly Kramer on March 30, 2011 · 5 Comments

ShareWe regularly work with clients to help them create and manage their company Facebook pages, so we pay a lot of attention to best practices. Yesterday I sat through Dan Zarella’s HubSpot webinar on the Science of Timing. Dan shared a ton of great information and, once I have a chance to revisit the slide [...]

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Obsessed with Facebook

Posted by Shelly Kramer on March 20, 2011 · 13 Comments

Share Love it or hate it, the world is obsessed with the social media darling that is Facebook. In society today, Facebook is ubiquitous. That’s likely because of the fact that out of the 206.2 million Internet users in the US, a mere 71.2% of that web audience is on Facebook. Even the Global Fortune [...]

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How NOT to be Invisible on the New Facebook Newsfeed

Posted by Shelly Kramer on February 13, 2011 · 48 Comments

Share Feeling as if your Facebook Newsfeed is filled with updates from all the same people lately? You’re not crazy – well, at least with regard to this issue. Facebook has once again changed the game on us and, as a result, it’s likely that your settings are such that only a small section of [...]

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Make Your Small Business Rock on Facebook

Posted by Shelly Kramer on January 2, 2011 · 8 Comments

Share This is a guest post written by my friend Erno Hannink, whom I was fortunate to meet at Liz Strauss and Terry Starbucker’s SOBCon Event this past spring. And by the way, if you’ve not yet explored SOBCon, being held in Chicago on 4/29 – 5/1, you should. To a lot of people, Facebook [...]

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