The Social Bowl

January 23, 2012 By Gary J. Nix 9 Comments

The Social Bowl

When the Patriots of New England take on the Giants of New York—a game that could be decided by kicking a oblong ball made of pigskin through a giant “H” for a most ripping victory—thousands of football fans will converge on Lucas Oil Field and the surrounding areas for Super Bowl XLVI. The vast majority of attendees are sure to use mobile devices to disclose various details of their fun during a full week of events. An unprepared city could experience a social media logjam, but the city of Indianapolis has taken all of this into consideration.
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Filed Under: Business Social Media, Facebook, FourSquare, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Twitter Tagged With: , , , , ,

The Path to Posting the Perfect Pic (and possibly going viral)

January 7, 2012 By JD Rucker 3 Comments

Perfect Pic

For most people and most pictures, sharing it on Facebook or Twitter is enough. It may be a quick snapshot of you and your friends out on the town or a cool sunset from a mountaintop and sharing it with our friends and family is enough. Other times, we’re able to capture something amazing, stunning, hilarious, or otherwise important enough to want to expose it to the rest of the world.

With those, we want to go viral. Here’s a (relatively) quick way to maximize the exposure of your perfectly-timed, once-in-a-lifetime shot.

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Filed Under: Buzzfeed, ChimeIn, Digg, Facebook, Featured, Offbeat, Pinterest, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Twitter Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , ,

When in Doubt, Blame Twitter

December 16, 2011 By Connor Livingston 5 Comments

Blame Twitter

How can something so harmless in sound and form be so devastatingly bad for our world. Despite the cute little bird mascots and harmless-sounding name, Twitter can actually be tracked back to be the cause of nearly everything that is going wrong in the world.

Everything.

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Ashton Kutcher Turns to Management Team for Social Media Efforts

November 29, 2011 By Dave Thomas 2 Comments

Ashton Twitter

As the fallout from the sex scandal at Penn State University continues to be a topic for both the college football world and the social media universe it is public knowledge that a well-known actor is pulling back on his initial Twitter comment regarding the matter.

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Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword

November 10, 2011 By Harrison Kratz 1 Comment

Ashton Twitter Account

What’s that old saying? Live by the sword, die by the sword. If anyone is experiencing that right now, it is Ashton Kutcher. Amidst the insanity that has been the Penn State University scandal, Kutcher sent out this Tweet that he regrets greatly. [Read more...]

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Who’s Pushing Your Website’s Social Buttons?

November 5, 2011 By JD Rucker 10 Comments

Social Buttons

Nobody.

If you check your analytics, you’ll find that an extremely small portion of your website visitors are pushing the buttons you worked so hard to position on your website’s homepage. A recent batch of data that I saw (that I, unfortunately, cannot reference yet) shows that those Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social buttons are being completely overlooked by most of your visitors.

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Siri Twitter and Facebook Workaround by @Schmittastic #icantbelieveididntthinkofthis

November 4, 2011 By JD Rucker 3 Comments

Facebook Twitter Siri

We take pride in coming up with solutions to some of the biggest problems facing social media users and businesses alike as we all traverse the murky but potentially-lucrative waters of Web 2.0. Every now and then, we come across things that make us wonder why we didn’t think of it.

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Silicon Valley Perks, Visualized

October 17, 2011 By JD Rucker 4 Comments

Massages at Work

Some people love their jobs and for good reason.

In Silicon Valley, high-valued tech employees are offered luxuries that would make many believe they live like rock stars. In many cases, they do, or at least they’re treated like rock stars by their employees such as Google, Tagged.com, and Linkedin.

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Filed Under: Business Social Media, Facebook, Google, Infographics, LinkedIn, Social Influence, StartUps, Tagged, Twitter Tagged With: , , , , , , , ,

Why Businesses are Leaving Twitter

October 11, 2011 By JD Rucker 12 Comments

Businesses Leaving Twitter

The wonderful promise that once was Twitter has faded in recent months for many businesses. There are several causes for this and only one reason why businesses who are abandoning the site are not really thinking it through.

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