If you’re not down with the Google+, in a nutshell, it’s Google’s social offering which smoothly integrates its existing online product suite – including Google Places and Maps, Web and Image Search, and YouTube. Connections are allocated to ‘circles̵

Let’s get something straight: being young does not equate to being online savvy. I’m telling you this because I have seen too many instances where a communications disaster has resulted from poor delegation of social media responsibilities (i.e. entire social media ownership h

I saw this while traveling this weekend: It’s a copy of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter House Five that is ad supported. On the cover, or in the pages, a company called WOWIO will insert an “unobtrusive advertisement” to subsidize the cost of the publication. I see a

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(or, the Scourge of the First). For many blogs, the first comment is always “First!”.  Older, more established blogs (which, believe me, is as weird a thing to type as it is to think about) have established policies around “first” posters.  Some get buried, o

In a meeting with a potential client last week, it became very clear, very quickly that it was going nowhere.  It all began with the following phrase: “I want it to go viral!” …a phrase which I’ve bitched about before.  But it got worse when the client (let’

Just a brief note here on facebook’s recent release of their marketing best practices guide. While one could take issue with their opening statement (“At Facebook everything we do is about making the world more open and connected.” (emphasis added)), the focus should

Facebook is many things; an ingenious marketing tool, an abyss of wasted hours, the ultimate time capsule, a great movie… and a threat to the principle of universality? The inventor of the internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has claimed that Facebook and other such closed network applica

A blog post with nothing to do with Old Spice. I hope this will come off as something like helpful advice, and less like cranky bitching about a bad flight. My wife’s evening flight to Chicago was canceled. She discovered this when an automated phone message left her a voicemail

The Cheezburger network, if you’ve missed it, is popular network of blogs with the very simple mission of “making the internet smile for 5 minutes a day”.  They’ve accomplished this with a steady stream of captioned images, usually borrowed memes such as Kludg