Making The Comparison Between Social Media And Gardening

Last year my wife and I decided to plant a vegetable garden for the first time and never having done this before we just dove right in and started planting a bunch of seeds hoping for the best. We made a lot of mistakes, had some fun and in the end we had some fresh vegetables to serve for dinner. Seeing as this upcoming weekend and weather co-operating my wife and I will be out planting the garden and as we intend...

9 Social Media Blogs You Should Be Reading

Who: Mari Smith Why: Mari Smith is a social media specialist with a ridiculous amount of Facebook knowledge. She is a regular speaker and keynote presenter at different marketing and social media events and she just recently authored the book “Facebook Marketing An Hour A Day”. If you seek any type of information on Facebook marketing Mari should be the first person you turn to for advice. Where: You can find...

Who’s Really Responsible For Your Privacy On Facebook?

Note: Although I typically offer guides, case studies and tool reviews as related to social media I felt it necessary to provide my opinion on the Facebook privacy debate. Let me know in the comments if you want to see more opinions such as this one or if you prefer only seeing guides, how-to’s, case studies and other similar content on the site. When it comes to online privacy Facebook is clearly standing in the...

Will You Reclaim Your Facebook Privacy?

The recent launch of the Facebook open graph and their suite of social plugins many users, websites, news agencies and internet celebrities have been extremely vocal about the eroding state of user privacy within the Facebook platform. Many of the over 400 million Facebook users have found the privacy controls to be far too complex with a vast array of options and setting to be tweaked and adjusted but leave users...

Tweetdeck I’m Breaking Up With You Or 10 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Hootsuite

I use many social networks including Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn on a regular basis but I don’t always have time or don’t like (I’m looking at you Twitter) going to those sites to update my status or engage with others in my network and so I became a dedicated and vocal supporter of Tweetdeck as it allowed me to update my Twitter status, Facebook status, update Fan Pages and my LinkedIn network. I used...