I’m sitting here in chaos. Surrounded by jewelry (because I’m doing some marketing for my brother’s hand-made jewelry),boxes,things from my purse, random pens, mail etc. I’ve decided that I’m not able to function tonight for that very reason. Clutter drives me absolutely insane. Which is funny, because I’m a very messy OCD person. I can work in chaos, but when [...]

Foursquare is something that I haven’t gotten into- mainly because I don’t like the idea of people knowing where I am, and what I’m doing… which is what happens when you check in places. The aspect I DO like, however, is the competitive edge… but I’m pretty much a homebody so I highly doubt I’ll be able to become mayor [...]

Google Buzz. It has JUUUUUST enough features so it’s like Twitter, but it’s lacking enough so it’s not overwhelmingly time consuming like Facebook. I haven’t officially decided whether I like it or not. I only found a few features that I like so far: The ability to link it to my Twitter account… even though I’m sure not everyone wants [...]

I’m always coming up with these monumentally awesome ideas, however, I never have the money to take them on. I came up with this really good idea for a business that I would like to try to get started ASAP but I don’t have the resources I’m a little frustrated about that. On the flip side, I have this new [...]

For everyone who doesn’t follow me on Twitter, our company is hosting our annual Spring Summit May 3rd and 4th. There will be some great speakers there, as well as just plain old fun and networking. To see more information about the summit, please visit the Spring Summit website. For now, enjoy this little promo video that myself and the [...]

I was looking around the interwebs today, looking for new social networking platforms etc, when I came across something called “Dribbble“… yes, with three B’s. Dribbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbble is pretty much a “Twitter” for designers- you can show what you’re working on in 120,000 pixels or less; it’s called a “shot”. I think the concept is actually really cool- why should people [...]

In my trial and error in planning a contest for my company conference, I realized a few things that I thought I would share. First off, my observations came with watching both a Twitter contest and a Youtube contest launch. As you probably have realized by now, the Twitter one was much more effective, and for a multitude of reasons. [...]

Twitter. It’s gone from some foreign platform to a household name. I find myself saying, “Did you get that tweet I sent you?” or “Can you re-tweet that for me?” It seems like everyone is incorporating twitter into their brand- and that’s a good thing.

But how do you get the most out of Twitter? What can you do to engage your Twitter followers so that you’re actively and effectively promoting your own brand? The answer is simple:

User Interaction.

I know, I know. I’ve been SEVERELY neglecting my website. I feel really terrible because I was putting so much effort into it- but then I started working full time doing SEO and internet marketing, as well as writing on Search Engine Journal. I feel like I’m losing touch with my website (and the followers I had before) so in [...]

Well it’s the time of the year for conferences! My company, Search & Social is hosting the spring summit for 2010. It will be lots of networking, SEO and social media education, as well as out right fun. We’ll have various contests running this week for VIP packages and/or free tickets, so please check back! Search & Social has announced [...]