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As of March 30, 2012, Facebook will change the design format for all Pages to a new Timeline View. This applies both to individual pages (which used to be called “Walls”) as well as company or brand Fan Pages. With the new Timeline View format, Pages will have Insights and message notifications built into the top [...]

If your knowledge of social media sites is limited to Facebook and Twitter…you’re missing the hashtag. Take a look at some of these goodies that will boost your social savvy beyond the Twittersphere: 1. Pinterest. Pinterest is an online pinboard for sharing photos of everything from food to hairstyles. The reason we included it on [...]

It’s increasingly obvious that the world needs to change and change quickly and radically. It needs to find new ways to work and new ways to do business. Five years ago I used to spend at least three hours a day in a car, driving around 120 kilometers (70 miles) a day to and from [...]

I recently came across this story on Mashable back in December and then again on the BBC News website about Visit Sweden’s recent Twitter experiment, or as they called it, a social experiment. It’s titled, Curators of Sweden and the premise is that they give a different Swedish citizen control of @sweden for seven days and [...]

This isn’t a question about your native language or English skills.  It references my favorite quote from Brian Halligan, CEO of Hubspot who was one of the presenters at the Inbound Marketing Conference in Boston  September 14, 2011.

Like the Internet, and TV before it, and radio before that, many thought (or perhaps still think) that social media was a fad that wouldn’t last. That it had no real commercial value or business application and therefore could be ignored. Well, surprise!  Like many quickly adopted and new-fangled media channels, social media fills a [...]

I listened to a great webinar yesterday offered by Hubspot (an inbound marketing software company based in Boston). The webinar was presented by Dan Zarrella, who calls himself “The Social Media and Viral Marketing Scientist.” The webinar presented some real research backed up by numbers showing the best times of the day to post blogs, tweet, send [...]

LinkedIn announced today that they have reached 100 million users. It’s taken the company 8 years to reach this milestone. Reportedly, they are now growing at roughly one member per second. It’s interesting to note that LinkedIn now has more members outside the United States than in it.  It’s definitely an international platform for connection [...]