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I like to say that comments are the gold bullion of the internet, especially for new bloggers.  Getting a comment on your blog is an important piece of validation, the moment in time where you [...]

I knew it was wrong the first time I heard it. Social media expert So-and-so says, “Social media is bringing everyone together; the key to success is to be amicable, social, friendly”. On the [...]

The life of a maturing industry is never dull, and social media is no different.  Just like the web design industry before it, social media has its share of charlatans, snake oil salesmen, and [...]

Mark calls it, “The Lust for Likes”.  Facebook call’s it a business model.  I call shenanigans.  What I’m about to say to you may shock you, you may want to sit [...]

So often, we hear that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.  In science and logic that’s completely true. Unfortunately, humans are rarely scientifically logical people.

People have difficulties with synonyms. Synonyms are words that mean the same thing…most of us learned that in middle school or so.  Unfortunately, there must not have been much practice of [...]

The social media version of the “chicken or egg” has finally come…and nobody wants to talk about it. The paradox is simple, but most paradoxes are, aren’t they.  It starts like this: You want to [...]

Sometimes social media sucks; especially when someone who knows how to use it decides that they don’t like you.  Most of the time this doesn’t get past the general passive-aggressive comment in a [...]

Be a Person First: Why Smaller Companies Should Embrace Social Media While reading an article on SearchEngineGuide.com, the author Jennifer Laycock made a point that resonated with me.  The [...]

First off, save it.  I am not attacking your mom/sister/aunt/grandmother.  This is not a blog about disrespecting breast cancer, it’s about disrespecting a marketing tactic, and it’s not [...]