Until recently, companies and brands had the option of preventing fans from posting comments on their Facebook pages.  In early August, Facebook removed this capability, stating Facebook is designed as a social platform and that preventing comments and wall postings goes against the spirit and intent of the platform.  While I don’t necessarily disagree with [...]

Since LinkedIn has passed the 100 million member mark, it’s fairly safe to say that if you’re reading this blog post, you probably have a LinkedIn profile.  You may have even added a photo to it, and possibly update your status once in awhile.  You may have used LinkedIn to network, look for a job, [...]

 Most of us have at least dipped a toe in the social media waters—a Facebook profile, a LinkedIn account, maybe Twitter.  You probably didn’t have a strategy for your personal presence, which for the most part is okay: your Facebook page has a built-in focus—you—and your LinkedIn profile represents your professional brand online.  You can [...]

Do you have a Facebook profile? Regularly Tweet your status? Check in on Foursquare everywhere you go?
If you’re like millions of other Internet users who engage in those activities, chances are pretty good that you’re exposing a lot of personal information to more than just your online friends.
There has been a lot of backlash in [...]

“I’m at Sanger & Eby (501 Chestnut St, Cincinnati)
How many of these tweets and/or Facebook updates have you seen from the people in your social media network? Tens? Hundreds? If you’re like me, you see these updates all the time. Whether at work, school, a restaurant or a bar, people are now sharing the details [...]

What is Twitter?
According to twitter.com, “Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”
Twitter is a “micro-blog”. Like a blog, Twitter allows you to create an online journal or diary and share it with the [...]

I read once that the most collectively oblivious people in the world are neighbors. I’m afraid I’m one of them. In these days of iPhones, Twitter, blogs and other internet phenoms, our face-to-face social networking has stalled. Well, it’s almost dead. After 8 years of living in my home, I just discovered that one of [...]