Posted in Social Media How-Tos on Aug 20th, 2009
Twitter has a few “special powers” as social media. In particular, it’s a powerful grapevine, thanks to the evolution of the beloved “retweet”, also known as RT. But how does a retweet work? Where are the rules for retweeting? Like much that is Twitter, or many other forms of human intercourse, the rules aren’t written [...]
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Posted in Social Media How-Tos on Aug 8th, 2009
Catherine’s note: before I met Mike Williams of www.coastalclicks.com I’d hear the words “pay per click” and my eyes would glaze over. It’s one aspect of on-line marketing I figured I just didn’t need to know about. But now that I am working with a number of businesses who ask me about PPC and SEO [...]
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Interesting! Lee LeFever of CommonCraft.com produced this video which compares ice cream to social media. Anything that uses an ice-cream metaphor gets my attention, and I think he’s brought some fresh insights to the social media conversation. I’m surprised it doesn’t mention the big social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) – but whether you [...]
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