Search and Social Convergence

The convergence of search and social is all the rage, over the last few weeks, since the announced deal for Google and Bing to show Tweets in their search results. I thought it would be appropriate for us to at least put a stake in the ground regarding our current opinion on the evolution of this topic.

Monday, November 30, 2009 @ 2:26 pm by Tim

Is this an underhanded way to find a social media expert?

Wait I shouldn’t say “expert” I should say people who are really hungry for a job and willing to be exploited in order to get it. (That is a tad long for a blog title.) Before I go into my little rant I want to say that finding qualified people with experience in social media is hard. You have people who can really create numbers through various programs but have …

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Saturday, November 28, 2009 @ 7:13 pm by Kevin

The Saint Consulting Group

The Saint Consulting Group combined a need for SEO improvement, site reorganization, and the deployment of a central social media campaign to tie the social media usage of individual employees together.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 11:10 am by Kevin

Building a Killer Keyword List

1.) Competitors: Go to your competitor’s website(s) and click “View”>”Source” on your browser and view their meta tags for some keyword ideas: 2.) Keyword Tools: Use tools like Google Keyword Tool, Wordtracker, and Keyword Spy 3.) Punctuation: Google will recognize “women’s trek road bikes” and “womens trek road bikes.” Be sure to include any variation with hyphens or apostrophes. If you don’t, this won’t significantly affect your overall performance; it’s …

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Sunday, November 22, 2009 @ 6:00 pm by Tim

Android and Chrome: Two Peas in a Pod

As businesses continue to thrive from the expansion in web services, it’s amazing how much of our desktop computing is executed in the cloud. With Google strongly positioned as the leader in pro-bono web based computing, I find myself using everything from Gmail for multiple email addresses to GCalendar to Google RSS to most recently tinkering with Wave. Some of the “office” features, such as Google Docs, have some maturing …

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Friday, November 20, 2009 @ 2:40 pm by Tim

Building Social Clout

As the engagement between savvy consumers and brands rapidly evolves, it is becoming increasingly important for these brands to embrace non-traditional channels for interaction and sentiment.  Led by Amazon.com, online reviews have shaped savvy consumer behavior and created a powerful, open platform for trusted like minded opinions.   Today’s savvy consumers and raving fans expect a personalized shopping experience, by which brands are willing to engage via whatever channel the …

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 @ 11:28 am by Tim

How to unhide people and applications from your Facebook feed

This weekend I had a friend of mine who was using Facebook on a computer that wasn’t his. He thought that he was logged in to his account and hid some people from his feed and hid some applications that he considers annoying. A few seconds after doing this he realized that he wasn’t logged into his account. I got a message asking me to help him figure out how …

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Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 8:49 am by Kevin

The Rise of Social TV for Mobile

As Social Media continues to influence how we absorb information, most flat surfaces will turn into displays and become repurposed with some type of social depiction. This type of continuous interaction will begin to shape Social TV, while tremendously expanding the reach for online media aggregators, global brands and politicians. Pretty soon, anyone with a video camera and a mobile phone will be able to stream live broadcasting. Social TV will combine …

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Thursday, November 12, 2009 @ 5:54 pm by Tim

They Just Don’t Get It

One of the problems of constantly reading social media and tech news is that you often get stuck in one line of thought that traditional companies “just don’t get it”. In our eyes these multibillion-dollar companies are “doing it wrong” because they are jumping on a shiny new technology or using the internet the way we do.  Sometimes the criticism is absolutely right but more times than not the instant …

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Thursday, November 12, 2009 @ 8:35 am by Kevin
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