While you watch tonight’s Super Bowl game, keep an eye on your favorite television ads.  I bet you will see many of them mention Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, LinkedIn, and FourSquare within the ads.  This is a great way for companies to direct a lot of consumers to quickly connect with them through social media.  I’d

Chances are you probably have several potential target customer groups. Have you stopped to think about how you are coming across to your audience? Are you being too sales-y? How well are you interacting with your audience? A great way to start would be to set your tone to the audience as well as objective.

Wordpress is without a question one of the more popular blogging/website platforms. The world has been going mobile more and more lately and Wordpress is not sitting on its hands.

This is the first post of a series that will delve into what social media can do for your Rate Of Return, aka ROI. Let’s start with customer service: I host my websites with MediaTemple (MT). I chose them because of the support they provide, and the fact that the package they had to offer was just

This week’s (January 30th – February 5th 2010) issue of The Economist did a special report on Social Networking. Reading through a few of their special report articles helped me realize that no matter how much time we at SMCpros spend in social media, it is still such a young piece of global culture. Reading

Who’s ready for some Vikings football Sunday night?  I know I am!  For a shorter blog post this week, I thought I would point out some of the players’ social media sites you might want to follow. Keep an eye on tweets coming out of New Orleans before and after the game. This should get

We live in an extremely fast paced environment and the need for virtual meetings has been growing fast. One of the best services I have come across and used is GoToMeeting.

In December, I donated $5 to Alicia Keys’ Keep A Child Alive foundation by texting “ALIVE” to 90999.  Making the donation was really easy since I could use my cell phone to donate and have the $5 added to my Sprint bill at the end of the month.  The texting process was very straightforward as

I have a tendency to worry about losing information and data on my online accounts. A co-worker of mine brought to my attention an online service that has the ability to backup all my online accounts. After doing my homework, I came to the conclusion that it is secure, user-friendly and free of charge throughout

I will be reporting live from the Consumer Electronics Show for the next four days, covering new, cool and exciting news! You can follow my updates on  Twitter, the CES page of my website, or my lifestream page, where it will all get aggregated with the pictures that I will be taking. If there is