Category Archives: Social Media Tips

8 Mistakes You’re Making on LinkedIn

An interesting piece of advice comes via an article on the popular LinkedIn World website… 8 mistakes you make on LinkedIn. These are valuable tips and really, when you think about it, these rules can be applied to most of … Continue reading

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iOS Tip – Find Deals on Food and Drink Nearby With Feed @getFeedApp

Social media deals like facebook specials and Twitter discounts are great, however, unless you happen to be checking into a venue and having a special pushed to you how are you supposed to know about deals that are taking place … Continue reading

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TweetPing is Mapping The World’s Twitter Activity in Real Time

I simply had to share details of this awesome  real-time map of the world’s Twitter activity so you could enjoy the awesomeness of it! Enter TweetPing. The project, reportedly based on Node.js has been designed by Franck Ernewein. Users view … Continue reading

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10 Tips To Scare Away the Cyber Stalker

Privacy and security is always a concern, particularly in this era of social media and social sharing.  Did you know that January is the tenth annual National Stalking Awareness Month dedicated to educating the public about the dangers related to … Continue reading

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The pressure to know something immediately is balderdash…

The title of this post is a quote from James, the author of what I found to be a very insightful article that provided loads of much needed common sense. My friend James from London (aka. @whatleydude) is a trusted … Continue reading

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HootSuite Grabs Seesmic as The Owls Add The San Fran StartUp to the Nest

I follow a number of HootSuite “owls” on Twitter and I’m pretty sure I stumbled onto details of this minutes after the news broke last night as details are now emerging about Vancouver StartUp, HootSuite acquiring competitor Seesmic. HootSuite is … Continue reading

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Social Tip – Twitter Rolls Out New, Simple Embed Timeline Widget

Sure you Tweet… you aren’t? Well, perhaps you should think about it… for those of you who do, Twitter has just this week announced a new tool for quickly and easily embedding your tweets into your blog or website. Using … Continue reading

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Social Media Tips – 10 Fun Ways To Enhance Your Instagram Experience

Instagram is fun and not to mention darned popular! Plain, vanilla Instagram is cool, however, there’s a number of ways to enhance your Instagram experience. the following are add on apps, tools and cool services that enable the user to … Continue reading

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Social Tip – Add Business Hours to Foursquare

Foursquare for Biz… did you know that managers and owners of business listings can use the foursquare dashboard (provided they “own” their listing) to add details hours of operation to their listing, providing users who checkin with even more useful … Continue reading

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Twitter Building the User Interest Graph to Appeal to Advertisers

Indeed there’s many changes going on at Twitter these days but what does that mean for you, the user? Well, with Twitter you never really know and for the user Twitter really can be defined as being useful for many … Continue reading

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How Klout is ranking you with Enhanced Klout and more K+

Some new improvements from Klout are now in place in order to give users a more “Accurate” Klout scrore with additional influence now being provided via Wikipedia, LinkedIn and K+ (get mentions on these resources to influence your Klout score). … Continue reading

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10 Useful Twitter add Ons For the Business User

Sure Twitter is cool… but what about making it even cooler and more useful?  Here’s  a small sampling of just 10 add-on apps that can make your Twitter experience even more productive for your business. who.unfollowed.me Do you ever wonder … Continue reading

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