I know by now that you’ve probably seen a whole bunch of talk about Google’s newest attempt at cracking the social networking market, GooglePlus. I was lucky enough to have a friend send me an invite last night and signed up for the service, and have a few thoughts that I want to talk about…
I will leave it to the fine folks at Stop Blocking! to skewer the latest report about the “cost” of social networking to business. I really couldn’t do it any better, but I do want to take a moment and do some math for you. According to the article, the hour each day an employee…
This past weekend I attended a little meetup at Lake Conestee. thanks to meetup.com. As I was going through the handful of photos I took at the park, I started to think about online social networking, and how location does affect how you network. As much as the internet and social networking has opened up…
This is an interesting idea. I certainly see the temptation for products to get tagged in photos and get free publicity for their Facebook pages. I’m trying to figure out how I could use it for my blog’s FB pages in fact.;-) On the other hand, having the opportunity to tag a popular page in…
My hope with Twitter purchasing Tweetdeck? That we don’t have to fear Twitter closing it out, or Tweetdeck creating some weird competitor, and that Twitter will take some of the great features present in Tweetdeck and make them part of the Twitter infrastructure. My fear? That some of the great features that help filter the…
Whenever I’m asked about using social networking tools, inevitably someone asks me if I could see it ever helping someone find a job. I’ve always had to answer that although I have never gotten a job offer due to my online connections, it has led to a number of other opportunities that I would not…