We often speak about cross-pollinating your social networking efforts meaning syndicating your updates in a way that when you update one network, it automatically sends the same update to other networks, saving you time. The other benefit of syndication is to promote the content you produce on one site by featuring it on another site [...]
My, how times have changed!
As a child of the 80s, living in a small town, I remember watching Mash with my grandparents and answering the rotary phone, “Hello, this is the Anglin residence” at age 3. Now, I have Twitter direct messages coming to my smartphone… my how times have changed! We wanted [...]
New Media Lab Represent!
This week, Benn and I will be speaking about social media at the Austin Internet Marketing Meetup group. The group is led by Adam & Laura Alter who are great people that we cross paths with from time to time on the tech scene, here’s what the group is all about:
Get [...]
As full as a clown car
For some reason, this week in Austin has an event every night that relates to social media, technology and/or networking, so we’ll probably be late to work every day this week.
Let us know in comments which events YOU will be attending:
Wednesday: Austin Bleet Up (blogger meetup, RSVP right now)
Thursday: [...]
T.S. Eliot and Formalism
In the 1910s through the 1960s, British and American writers responded to the literary romanticism by launching the “New Criticism” movement (also known as “Formalism”). Previously, the focus of writing had been on the experience of the piece, the prestige of the author and a variety of philosophical perspectives taken toward writing. [...]
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The Internet is for Teeny Boppers
False. Take a few minutes to look at the data above and let me tell you why it’s interesting:
5% of people over age 62 create web content (blogs, podcasts, etc). That means that in a room of 20 people aged 62 or over, at least [...]
co-authored by Benn Rosales
The City as a living organism
With the birth of the major American metropolises, scientists sought out ways to describe how a city is born and how urban sprawl occurs. One of the dominant urban growth theory models that is still used to explain the phenomenon of cities spilling over into more rural [...]
You knew this was coming…
If you’ve ever had an email address and had Prince Abdulla contact you offering to pay you $5k if you transfer some money for him or been told you can work from home and make six figures per year just by buying a starter kit, you know how the online scam [...]
Are You Addicted to Twitter?
The fastest way to know if you’re addicted to Twitter is to take the quiz. The other way is to look at the 46 phases of Twitter which range from “1. Hear the word Twitter. Scoff.” to “25. Make it your life mission to get RT’d.” to “44. Think [...]
Your Social Media Toolbox:
Coming off the heels of our speaking last week at the Harvard Business School Club, we have tons of links to share to get your feet wet in social media. Below is a list of sites or articles we referenced throughout the day. Thanks to everyone who came out and [...]
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