The Facebook Roast by College Humor
And now for a little long weekend animated fun. This Facebook Roast was just posted on College Humor - just a quick warning, Gilbert Gottfried is the voice of Twitter,
One Bonus Tip Plus a Link for 6 More On How To Be More Effective with Facebook Status Updates
I recently came across this article from Wildefire which I am now sharing with you: 6 Clever Tricks to Double the Effectiveness of Your Fan Page Status Updates! There are
LinkedIn Valued at $10 Billion, SMB Value Proposition Rises
Take a look at this video I just put together talking about the LinkedIn IPO (currently valued at $10 Billion) and what it means for you:
How Does Affiliate Marketing Work? Infographic
I recently came across this infographic on "how affiliate marketing works" which I thought I'd share as it's pretty straight forward and for those of you looking to diversity your online income streams affiliate marketing is always a nice consideration.
Click here to view a larger version.
[Image provided courtesy of the Sugarrae affiliate marketing blog.]
Social Media and Doctors: A Few Lessons From Hospitals
While every business has their own specific needs, thought processes and norms, medicine in particular is interesting due to the sensitive and intimate nature of the services doctors and other health care providers deliver. Given the close proximity to patients there are a number of moral, ethical and legal boundaries that are very specific to this industry.
It's also been very interesting to see the worlds of medicine and social media converge. In particular I have noticed an emerging trend among the larger, more clearly defined medical institutions in terms of their efforts to "get in front of" social media on a corporate level...
Video Book Review of Real Time Marketing & PR by David Meerman Scott
I recently had the opportunity to read "Real Time Marketing & PR" by David Meerman Scott which I found to be very compelling. I've put together this little video review to share some of my thoughts on the book, which I do recommend. Go ahead and click on the picture to get the show rolling...
Speaking at the Boston WordPress MeetUp Tomorrow
I'm very pleased to share with you that tomorrow, March 28 I will be speaking before the Boston WordPress MeetUp Group as one of the presenters for the WordPress Framework Bake-Off.
The evening will showcase three distinct premium WordPress themes including Headway, Thesis, and an open-source theme called Suffusion. I'll be running the demo for the Headway Themes tutorial. I should also mention that the bake-off is not intended to be a competition rather the showcase of each of the themes and it should give everyone a very nice introduction into some of the strengths and weaknesses of each of these themes.
Twitter Turns 5
A big day in social media has today as Twitter turned five. Twitter for me in particular is been a very powerful social media platform, and one that has really provided me my entry point into the field of social media in general. I've personally had great fun using twitter, meeting people on twitter and discovering all kinds of interesting things with this platform. I'm also very appreciative of all that I have really learned as a result of using Twitter, both from the platform as well as from the user base.