Remember the days of searching places like Yahoo to find the best results that fit?  I can remember painfully clicking link after link to find the relevant search results on my search topic.  Me and the back button?  We considered getting engaged. I came across a Search Engine Land experiment on how the new Google Search... Read More →

If you have gotten your Twitter account hacked because you’ve clicked on a phishing scam link, here’s how to get it cleaned up.  Otherwise you might find yourself on lists you don’t want to be on. Edited to add: Also, periodically check your sent tweets to see what your account has been doing without you!... Read More →

Disclosure: I’m co-founder of sbbuzz with Pamela O’Hara and Michelle Riggen-Ransom of BatchBlue Software. A few months ago, small business owner Whitney (@wald12) came to Michelle and Pam for advice on how to get started with technology and social media for her business. Brilliantly inspired by #journchat, they created a chat for small business owners... Read More →

Amy Flanagan makes me crack up, yet again. The social media expert debate rages on. I’ll admit the expert title makes me uncomfortable but it makes me ponder what the very knowledgeable people™ about social media do to demonstrate their expertise. How do you set yourself apart from others? I always say hard work, but... Read More →

Want the tweets about your blog posts to be posted to the blog comments so the discussion is all in one place? I just saw Chat Catcher (the coolest thing) in action over on Dave Fleet’s blog this morning and immediately tweeted and added it to chelpixie.com.  He apparently found it via Shannon Whitley (whom... Read More →

This is a series of posts chronicling my path as a social media evangelist for Vibemetrix.  What’s on my mind as I do a job that I love and my thoughts on the state of the industry. Twitter followings Last week I was pondering how to make the Vibemetrix account valuable to those of you... Read More →

Last week was my first week as Social Media Evangelist of Vibemetrix. It’s remarkable the information flow that comes across your desktop during the course of a day as a SME.  I spend the day reading blogs, answering questions, seeking information, writing my own blog post, Twittering helpful things, sharing blog posts that teach me... Read More →

Earlier today I blogged at Smart Mobs about the RNC protests and the use of social media to back protesters and activists up and protect them if there were arrests made. This is so amazing that I just had to share it with my readers as well. The results of Coldsnap Legal Collective and Uptake... Read More →

The funniest, kinda snarky but all in good fun, hands down BEST review of Podcamp Boston 3 I’ve read. And I quote: 32. No matter how good the alternatives are, Twitter is too sticky to go away (any time soon). They could drop the whale on a bus full of children, then bake their parents... Read More →

Freshbooks has been a prime example that I point at when people ask me about brands who are using Twitter and social networking in remarkable ways.  I checked out Freshbooks when I first started looking for a online time tracker and billing software.  I was using Billable, but the way it tracks time wasn’t working... Read More →