Facebook Frustrations

Facebook has been going through a lot of changes over the past 6 months. Some have been welcome but many have not. When people talk about not liking the changes, what they ate really talking about is not liking the change in usability. Ever heard the phrase "If it's not broke don't fix it." Well … [Read more...]

Pics from Blogworld

Deserts at Botega Louis

Blogworld was a great conference. I met some wonderful people. I reconnected with some people. I attended some great seminars workshops and of course parties. Here are some of my "reckless" photos from Blogworld LA 2011. … [Read more...]

How to Give your Page an Edge on Google+

Google+ Page Profile Photo

Now that Google+ Pages has launched you might be asking yourself, do you really need another page for your business?  The answer is yes.  Though there is a lot of debate on whether Google+ is going to be a truly competitive social network for Facebook, there is one area that Facebook cannot … [Read more...]

Million Dollar Failures: A Review of Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain by @RyanBlair

Ryan Blair Nothing to Lose

I am sad to say that I rarely read books anymore. I read blogs, magazines, articles, email, Facebook status updates, and tweets. Books seem to fall to the wayside, especially ones that are not on my iPad. Over this past weekend I decided to dig into a book I had received from Ryan Blair called … [Read more...]

Google+ for Business….well almost

Google Plus Business Pages

Goolgle+ announced today that they are offering pages for business. This is answering a long standing question, when with Google+ be business friendly.  Well, they had been promising the eventual advent of their business Pages, and the day has finally come!...well kind of. The pages roll out is … [Read more...]

What about building their brand? Comments from Blogworld LA

Be unique! Be original! Do that and you will sky rocket to success! Like so many conference that was a theme in Blogworld after the first day. What a lot of people were wondering but not necessarily vocalizing was how can I do that for a client? One problem with seminars and industry … [Read more...]

More! More! More! Social Marketing Gets More Personal!

Customer Service Twitter

Everyone wants to know how to get more clicks from their Facebook and Twiiter. How to get more followers. How to get more fans. How to get more more more! But many people are missing one of the biggest values of social marketing and that is the ability to get more personal. If you go back to the … [Read more...]

Blogworld LA

Today I am heading out to LA for Blogworld! This is one of the largest social media conferences of the year. Some of the featured speakers are Chris Brogan, Aliza Sherman, Amber Naslund, Guy Kawasaki, Michael Stelzner, Mari Smith and even some normal famous people like Kevin Pollack! I am beyond … [Read more...]

Happy Halloween

Wordpress Pumpkin by Eric Martin

I hope that everyone is having a great Halloween! To help celebrate and possibly inspire that day for you. I wanted to share some of the great social media pumpkin carving I have seen this year! … [Read more...]

Manymoon vs. Basecamp vs. TeamworkPM: The Throwdown!

More and more people are cloud computing. I mostly use it for my business, since it is much more efficient for me to keep information on the cloud and be able to access it from anywhere.  Recently I was asked about cloud-based project management.  I was using Manymoon. Then I switched to … [Read more...]