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 [...]

Google Seems to Have Misplaced My Facebook Fan Page—Have You Seen It Anywhere?

As a social media consultant, I have used my name as a search term to demonstrate that social networking sites come up early as search results.Until recently a search on my name in either Google or Yahoo produced the same results: my website and blog, my profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter and my fledgling Facebook fan page for my social media consulting business. Earlier this week, while searching on my name in Google and Yahoo!, I realized my Facebook fan page did not come up in search results. What has changed?

Reactions to Twitter

Early morning thoughts about social media marketing, PR and strong coffee… Tuesday, May 12, 2009. This morning I’m thinking about people’s reactions to Twitter. Last week I used LinkedIn to promote an upcoming event in our area and was surprised at some of the negative responses I received. On Thursday, May 14th, I will be [...]