Where Google Search Plus Your World Goes Wrong
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 plus Your World works. Google has done some pretty unremarkable things in the past (Hello turning off sharing in Google Reader!).... Read More
Recovering from Twitter Phishing
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! (Hat tip to @cspenn.) Step 1: Stop clicking the links that get you hacked in the first place. Even if you know the person,... Read More
SBBuzz: Helping Small Biz Get Answers
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 weekly on Twitter. SBBuzz not only covers the blogging, Twitter and social media efforts... Read More
Friday Link Love – April 3rd, 09
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 labels, they find their way into the best and worse of communities. Greg Verdino’s blog title, Twitter is This Year’s... Read More
Chat Catcher – Twitter mentions of your blog into your comments
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 you should also check out). It captures tweets about your blog or blog posts and copies them into your blog comments. So the discussion... Read More
