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UPDATE: The folks at Hootsuite are seriously “Johnny-On-The-Spot”! They’ve already made fixes so that the following blog post is already outdated. BOOM! Nevertheless, I’ll leave this post up as a record of how much chaos heavy-handed API changes can cause for end-users. 😉 In case you haven’t noticed, Facebook made some API changes recently that …
I recently ran a contest for a client designed to quickly get “new Likes” for their Facebook Page. It was a giveaway, with a very desirable prize, so we exceeded our goal in less than 48 hours. Metrics have gone through the roof and even after announcing the winner we have continued to gain new …
I see it all the time and it’s one of my biggest pet peeves in the world of marketing. Well-meaning brands place a social media icon somewhere on a printed surface (or television screen) in hopes of getting lots of new Likes or Follows. Plenty of marketing pros have bemoaned the fact that this call …
Logged into Facebook a few minutes ago and was asked to take a quick survey. At the end, the survey asked for additional feedback. Here’s what I wrote: I am constantly frustrated by Facebook’s filtering of my newsfeed (Edgerank). I am only friends with people whom I want to hear from. No algorithm will ever …
Here are some of the best thoughts I’ve run across. May you be as challenged, stretched, and inspired as I have been. Joe Long (via Facebook): “And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day …
I saw this on Leonard Sweet’s Twitter stream the other day (which he repeated on his Facebook profile): Leonard Sweet M. Obama’s 1line smash of stereotypes-“If he cares half as much about the country as he does about his own children, we’re going to be fine” Let me say, I love Sweet’s writings and think …
Today is my one year anniversary with Twitter. (Not sure of your “Twitterversary” date? Go to http://twitter.com/users/show/yourusernamehere.xml. Scroll down through the xml file and look for the “created_at” tag to find your exact anniversary date, including the time.) Even though I had heard about the service much earlier, I rejected it as a frivolous waste …
Think About It—God’s Word is alive! (Hebrews 4:12) Read About It—Acts 12:19-25 Computer viruses can wreak havoc to your cyber health! (Even Mac users–long apathetic about viruses–are now forced to at least be aware of potential threats.) A well-planned and executed virus can literally spread around the globe in a matter of days or even …
