The Current Social Media Trend–Write An eBook Back in 2006 or 2007 when I began my blog with the now defunct, dadscenter.org, I had a mission to become one of the best and most prolific dad bloggers on the Net. When Twitter came along I was one of the early adopters and remember thinking how Read More
Chicago Overtime Lawsuit–Answering Cell & Emails Is Working The lawsuit in Chicago about whether or not police officers answering issued cell phones and email accounts after hours presents an interesting situation. What if you also have an employee who is charged with handling the Social Media account and you don’t have them salaried but are Read More
QR Codes At A Funeral Home? Even In Death, You Cannot Escape Social Media I shot a funeral today for a client at the Grove Hill Funeral Home on Samuel in Dallas, Texas today. While talking to the building organizer about particulars of the event, I could not help but notice how Grove Hill is Read More
iBooks 3 books for iPad now includes a powerful Social Media component that allows a reader to share content with others via Twitter, Facebook, Message, and Email. From an educational standpoint, this is significant. The new “share” function from highlighting allows for the exchange of text within a book via Mail, Message, Twitter, Facebook or Read More
iBooks 3 and iBooks Author produced books now include a social media component! You can make a note in the book and then share it with anyone in the world. Little noted yesterday during the Apple announcement was one of the biggest things that’s happened in books since Gutenberg–iBooks 3 books for the iPad now Read More
We don’t know about you, but anytime we see one of these knuckle-headed Twitter posts promising “1000s” of followers a day, well, we get a little annoyed. There’s so many of them in our stream right now we are kind of wishing the porn Tweets would mount a come back. (Not really, but you know Read More
This morning we posted a request for information on the Athens State University Facebook page. We’re back in Huntsville, Alabama working with our client here and looking for some assistance via interns who might be looking to actually try their teachings out on a live project. A short post on the Athens State Facebook page Read More
You may have seen the earlier post today about HootSuite’s April Fool’s prank re Happy Owls. Well, later today I received a second email from Ryan at HootSuite. This one reads a little differently than the first. The prior email entitled HootSuite Pivot was sent to you in error. It was intended to be sent Read More
We’ve read several of the former Apple evangelist and business guru Guy Kawasaki’s books through the years. Usually, they require the addition of an ink pen in order to mark up the brilliant insights and ideas that come from reading them. This month he has released a tenth book entitled, Enchantment–The Art of Changing Hearts, Read More
UPDATE Feb. 16, 11:10 a.m: We finally received a call from Tami Kruse, a sales manager at InfoUSA.com. After some clarifications, and a good customer service call on her part, we’ve worked things out. (Also don’t miss the case study we’ve written about this incident.) Apology accepted and they’ve made an overture to make up Read More
