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15 Jul
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14 Jul
Trusting the brand to the lowly ‘twintern’
Many corporate higher-ups are demonstrating a genuine concern for the level of discretionary decision making invested in todays corporate “twinterns” (Twitter/social media interns). The thing is, many companies such as Pizza Hut are now choosing to hire paid interns to focus on their social media endeavors. Great idea, in theory. One of the most common […] -
10 Jul
Scoops Top Five Reasons She
Scoops Here. This Friday, instead of delivering the latest popular social/ media news topic, I wanted to take a little time and reflect on why I love social media so much. So here it goes… 1. TRENDING TOPICS. I am able to make up ridiculous trending topics with the hopes of it will catch on. […] -
09 Jul
NFL Says “No” to Players Tweeting During Games
If you were hoping for Chad Ochocinco to pull out his cell phone and tweet after scoring a touchdown this season, prepare to be disappointed. According to NBC Sports, the NFL will not allow in-game tweeting, per the league’s current policy of prohibiting players or other team personnel from using their cell phones during competition. […] -
07 Jul
A shout out to the Grammies and Grampies on FB
I talk to business owners and CEOs every day about social networking and when it comes to Facebook, I usually hear things like – ‘Facebook is too young for our business,’ or my new favorite (from a meeting this past Thursday) ‘People of my generation don’t know what Facebook is.’ Then I go through my […] -
07 Jul
Part-Two of Twitter Faux Pas:Scoops Top 5 local companies with Questionable Twitters
Scoops Here. To supplement the Twitter Faux Pas I mentioned yesterday. I thought I would give some of my examples of local companies in New England with some questionable Twitters themselves. 1. http://twitter.com/TJXCo – with only 37 followers there is not much to see here. Although Twitter is a great tool for recruitment such as […] -
06 Jul
Twitter Faux Pas–Business Style!
Scoops Here. So your company is ready to get on Twitter…FANTASTIC! Now of course you want to do it right, so you go on looking at another company’s page for best practices. That is all well and good…unless you start to mimic what I will term–Twitter offenders! I stumbled upon a great blog post discussing […] -
19 Jun
Realtors, Home Buying and Social Media
On Thursday, Pam and I had the chance to speak to RE/MAX Paramount about Social Media and your web presence. What a great group! They had great questions and, were eager to share their success stories, and even poked fun at me regarding the general theme found in my spam box (cough…John Shea) On our way back to […] -
18 Jun
The Twitter Must-Haves
By now we all recognize the amazing power and growth of the next social bug: Twitter. Twitter has proven to be a versitle and robust ‘buzz’ tool within a variety of business circles. Even so, what many people have yet to discover is the power of the varying third party tools you can use in […] -
18 Jun
Ahmadinejad Missed Social Media 101
Too bad Ahmadinejad missed Strategis’ Social Media Presenation by Pam Maloney and Adam Cupples. If he had attended he would have realized to also block twitter along with the host of other filters he placed on Facebook and Youtube. And admittedly, I am not quite a fan of twitter just yet, but no one can […]