do you work for my company? boost your linkedin seo

don’t accept linkedin defaults for your website links. customize your links to make your profile more user-friendly and [read more...]

facebook apps won't share (unless you tell them to)

some more good news for privacy-loving facebook users. facebook announced new privacy controls for content shared through applications. [read more...]

zemanta hearts my posterous blogs, too

zemanta, a top-notch plugin for my wordpress blog, also offers a version for email clients. my posterous blogs are feeling the zemantic [read more...]

feeding the (content) beast

great content? essential.
creating said content? challenging.
herein some tips on making it a little easier. it all starts with google [read more...]

who's buzzing you?

most of the criticism of google’s new service has focused on the service’s auto-follow feature. I’m not all that worried about who google thinks I should be following and/or follows on my behalf. I’m more concerned about the other side of the coin – the absence of good controls over who follows [read more...]

is your social media profile portable?

make sure you can take your linkedin profiled with you if you move on. here’s something to verify (or change) today to ensure your social media persona (at least the linkedin piece of it) is with you for the long [read more...]

a linkedin tip that will probably leave you frustrated and certainly take more than 60 sec

there’s some good advice out there on how to use social media tools, and there’s some that leave you shaking your head. herein some corrective surgery on a linkedin tip I read [read more...]

linkedin meets nip/tuck

since last fall, linkedin has introduced several changes to how users see and work with the site. I go through the changes and explain why they [read more...]

facebook doth protest too much

facebook has its reasons for encouraging users to share personal information. in fact, it makes sense for many people. however, a new popup is just one of the tactics the company is using to persuade users that cross the line from disingenuous to [read more...]

guilt by association? keeping your facebook friend list private

facebook’s privacy setting changes: my series on what they mean for users. this one is about hiding your friend [read more...]

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