7 Strategies I’m Pitching for Businesses to use Facebook Places
Facebook Places is the latest and greatest service offered by Facebook that has many Brands raging around how to build a strategy. Never has the advertiser or brand had so many options as they do now on Facebook to target demographic, interested parties, that you can now actually track whether they’ve been to your physical […]
Read more...Who are the Utah Tech Bloggers on Twitter?
I had this long-winded post on how I thought startups, entrepreneurs, and investors in Utah aren’t reading enough Utah based tech blogs, hoping to start a “Read Utah” campaign, but I figured I’d do something about it instead. I’m looking for every Utah Tech blogger you know on Twitter. The Rule is they have to […]
Read more...Tragedy Turns Into Inspiration as Thousands Turn to Help Slain Bishop Through Social Media
My heart just tears at the thought of this story as it hits really close to home – I can’t help writing this without a tear in my eye and heaviness in my heart. A man enters a Visalia, California LDS Church meetinghouse, asks to meet with the leader over the congregation, and gets referred […]
Read more...Apple is Creating a "Social Network" the Right Way
Today Apple did one of the most powerful things they have done since the launch of the iPod. Notice that I didn’t say “revolutionary”. There’s nothing new about it. Note that I didn’t say “innovative”. There’s nothing unique about it. Today Apple launched, quite simply, a “Social Network for Music”. What’s so powerful is that […]
Read more...Want to Follow Steve Jobs? "No Soup for You!"
Evidently a few of my friends have found Steve Jobs’ profile and followed him. Apple must have discovered that, because whenever I click on his profile, I get the following popup, saying, “Your Ping Account is Disabled.” Of course my account isn’t disabled because I can still follow other people, but it’s definitely interesting. I […]
Read more...How the Little Guy Can Get Published – an Autobiography
As I just wrote, we live in an era where having a voice is much easier than it used to be. Getting published is actually quite simple if you’re willing to work for it. In fact, I’m living proof. Just 3 years ago I was working a 9-5 job as my sole source of income […]
Read more...As Goes the Publisher, So Goes the Conference
Seth Godin is known as a leader in trends, particularly surrounding marketing and the new wave of media. That’s why Godin deciding his 13th book, Linchpin, will be his last traditionally published book is a big deal. I think it seals the deal – not just that publishers aren’t quite as needed as they used […]
Read more...Now You Can Check in on Twitter Through Facebook Places
This post is syndicated from the SocialToo Blog – please check it out! I think this feature’s pretty cool: Recently Facebook launched the ability for users to checkin to any place with their mobile phone, sharing with their Facebook friends where they are and what they’re doing, but what about their Twitter friends? Services like […]
Read more...Come Learn the Secrets to Facebook Integration at Facebook Success Summit 2010
FBML’s dead. I’m saying it right here (and yes, I wrote the book). Facebook recently announced that they are moving away from FBML and more towards iFrame-based applications and Social Plugins for integration on your website and internal Facebook.com hosted applications. Does this mean the Static FBML app is going away? What will you be […]
Read more...Facebook Kills Connect, Makes App Creation Easier, Simpler
As I’ve been writing Facebook Application Development for Dummies (now available on Amazon for pre-order!), there has been one thing I have been noticing: Despite all the new focus on Facebook’s Graph API, Facebook has still had a lot of conflicting focus on their old, more complicated, Connect APIs, making it a fun thing to […]
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