Social Media Marketing Is More Than Facebook And Twitter.

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This guest post is written by Michael Dolen, founder and CEO of the popular online forum, CreditCardFroum.com. What’s social media? Most of us think of Facebook, Twitter, and maybe even LinkedIn. However there’s something else that falls into this category: forums/message boards. Because they’ve been around since the dawn of the internet, they’re not nearly as [...]

Social Media: Leaving 2011 and Heading Into 2012

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How will we remember 2011? A year filled with huge change on a global, local and personal level. Social media played an integral part and continues to impact our lives–in ways we don’t always stop to think about. Social media tools are developing and evolving at breakneck speed, presenting incredible opportunity and risk at the [...]

TEDxDetroit 2011: Creativity. Hope. Technology. Inspiration.

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Driving back from Detroit to Toledo through steady rain, we find ourselves going over and over the speakers and presentations we’ve just enjoyed at today’s event: the third TEDxDetroit. The event, described as an independently produced offspring of the annual TED, is a gathering of big brains and cool creators. TEDxDetroit is organized and staffed [...]