It all starts out innocently enough, a game asks for permission to access your account, then an email app does, then another game and before you know it there are countless numbers of third parties who have access to your social accounts. Most of these are harmless enough and they don’t really cause any grief,…
I found a cool way to monitor any mentions of your name, your brand, your clients, your competitors and virtually any keyword you choose. You can monitor mentions on blogs, websites, videos, news feeds, forums, images,Twitter and Facebook. You can do this online or you can download desktop clients for Windows, Mac or Linux machines.…
The new Timeline for business pages went active on Friday for most Facebook business pages. This change is a pretty radical departure from what was available before, and at first I was inclined to hate it. But, since Facebook looks like it is going to become the “Borg” (of StarTrek fame), the quote “resistance is…
March 30, 2012 is less than a week away as I write this, and by the time you read this it may only be a few days away. What’s the big deal about March 30th? If you don’t have a Facebook business page, it’s no big deal at all. But, if you do have a…
Ever get the feeling that Facebook is hiding things from you? That people are talking about things that you don’t see on your Facebook wall? If so, it’s because YOU have not taken advantage of Facebook’s enhanced List feature. The Facebook wall, up until recently, was a riot of information. Posts from people that you…
Here is the final reposting of my vacation series. By the time you read this I will be back at work, tanned, rested and ready to go. You might not be any of those, but you might be wondering how you could best go about putting social media to work for your business. The following…
As you read this I am on vacation and in order to make this a true vacation, I decided that I would not be writing blog posts while I was away. Instead, I thought that I would revisit a few posts from the past that are still valid today and which could be helpful to…
On October 1st, 2011, I’ll be walking on Kaanapali Beach on Maui. While I am doing that, those of you with custom Facebook fan page “tabs” that are not hosted on a server that has a SSL Certificate will find that their expensive custom tab is no longer displayed. For the rest of us, this…
I attended Real Estate Bar Camp sponsored by the Contra Costa Young People’s Network yesterday along with several hundred other real estate professionals. Most were from the San Francisco Bay Area but people from Sacramento and Southern California were also in attendance. Also present was Andy Kaufman who is credited with “porting” over the Bar…
By now you have heard of Google+. If you haven’t, it must mean that you have been under a rock since June 28th when Google announced its new social network. It’s been on the evening news, been in the newspapers and has even been the butt of parodies. It seem like everyone and their brother…
