What Facebook Mentions Mean for Your Business

Whether Facebook is copying Twitter or not, this week Facebook added the capability to tag your connections in your status updates. What is it? How do I do it? When you update your Facebook status (personal status or fan/group pages) you can now ‘tag’ or ‘mention’ people, businesses, groups by name and link to their…

Google Launches Internet Stats

Well, what do we have here?  It’s a shiny new tool from Google to play with!  In an attempt to make an easy-to-use interface to search for quick facts in one place, Google quietly launched a collection of data from third party sources called Internet Stats on the Google UK domain.  Here’s what it looks…

Is Google Helping Put an End to Free News Online?

You won’t believe what I read in the paper today! I don’t read the newspaper because I get my news online for free like everyone else.  This probably has a lot to do with the fact that the U.S. newspaper industry has had its worst year since 1950, with plummeting readership and advertising revenue. How…

Three Things to Shake Your Fear of Social Online Marketing

I read a lot (nerd alert). I read a lot of different kinds of books, a lot of different blogs and even a lot of magazines. All kinds of genres but one thing recently has been discussed a lot in all of these different publications and resources: FEAR! We are afraid to try new things,…