Want To Win Some Happiness?

Update: The contest is now closed and we have a winner. Congratulations to @jedmarc for winning an advance copy of Delivering Happiness.  For those who entered but didn’t win and still want a copy of this book (which I highly recommend) you can pre-order your own copy from Amazon. Yesterday in the mail I received an advance copy of the brand new book from Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh –...

6 Ways The NHL Fully Embraces Social Media

Many companies have yet to fully embrace social networking sites and social media dismissing it as nothing more than an internet fad. Although not in the majority there are those companies out there that have fully embraced social media in an effort to drive sales and engage in an open communication with their customers or fans. One company that extensively employs the use of social media tactics and fully...

Got 5 Minutes? Add Some Facebook Social Plugins To Your Site

If you want to get up and running quickly with the new suite of Social Plugins offered by Facebook it really is as simple as adding one line of code and under most circumstances will take you less than five minutes. If you would like to see or try out a couple of the Facebook social features before implementing them in to your own site you can scroll to the bottom of this post to see the Like plugin (feel free to...

Why You Should Care About Facebook Social Plugins

Facebook held its annual developer conference F8 yesterday and as expected announced not only their new Graph API and the Open Graph Protocol but also a suite of eight social plugins designed to not only be extremely easy to integrate into your existing site but also extremely powerful. As explained by Facebook during the keynote the Social Plugins work to create a web that is instantly sociable and personalized....

Do You Like Me? My Opinion On The Recent Facebook Changes

Facebook recently made two changes that dramatically impact the way users interact with Fan pages. The first and most obvious of the changes is the changing of the language from “Fan” to “Like” and the second is removing the ability for non-page admins to view the entire list of fans. According to Facebook and as stated in the official Facebook FAQ the reason for the change from...