Tweet While we are in the midst of the NBA finals I thought it would be interesting to take a glimpse at how NBA teams are presenting their brand on social media. The infographic gives a clear view of what NBA team is making the biggest impact on Facebook, twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

Tweet Follow me on twitter By my friend on Facebook Join me on LinkedIn In the real world, to be comfortable following, being a friend of or joining someone it may require knowing some things about them. Who do they hang around? What do they do? What kind of things do they like to do. Do you have anything in common with them? Well, whether you know it or not, social media is the real [...]

Tweet You know your business needs a strong, solid brand to compete in the marketplace. You know the basics of building a brand. You’re active on various social media platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg, About.me, etc. How do you manage to develop a cohesive brand across all these different platforms? Hint: it’s more than using the same logo pic on your profiles! Here are some critical points to ensure your branded online presence [...]

Tweet With all the talk about Google’s new Google+ social networking project, the obvious comparisons and contrasts between them and Facebook have become rampent. The Tech Addicts put together this infographic to highlight all the features of both Facebook and Google+ and see how they rate head-to-head. Source: The Tech Addicts

Tweet I’m sure you’ve heard of it. Mashable can’t stop talking about it. People run to find invites for it. It’s called Google+. If you were like me and was not fully aware of what Google+ was trying to accomplish, I will attempt to make everything a little more clear. Basically, Google+ is supposed to be the alternative to Facebook. Google makes no secret of that. According to Google, The Google+ project aims to make [...]

Tweet Social media is quickly become a major part of a lot of small businesses marketing and branding game plans and twitter is at the forfront of that. For the busy entrepreneur, simply logging into the Twitter website is not an effective way to make the most out of twitter. In order to expand his or her reach in the social media universe, they must the most of their 8 or more hour workday. The [...]

Tweet Exploring Social Media and CreditLoan.com collaborated on an infographic to illustrate the gap between those that use social media tools and those that do not. What I found interesting was that email still remains the number 1 marketing tool even as social media continues to gain ground amongst large and small companies.

Tweet In times of old “buzz” about the royal weddings was restricted to the words and bell of the town crier. Now with twitter, Facebook and various blogs, buzz can spread much faster and wider. Webtrends put together statistical data that shows how  the royal wedding was talked about across the internet. Surprisingly, The United States held 65% of the chatter while the site of the wedding (UK) only had 20%. Twitter claimed most of [...]

Tweet Five years ago today development of what we know as Twitter began. According to Wikepedia Twitter’s origins lie in a “daylong brainstorming session” that was held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. While sitting in a park on a children’s slide and eating Mexican food, Jack Dorsey (@jack) introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. For some it is hard now to imagine [...]

Tweet Interested in knowing how Americans are spending their St. Patrick’s Day. Lab42 conducted a survey of 405 social network users showing what plans they have on March 17th. (Image courtesy Lab 42)