Facebook makes big changes to Pages Interface

Facebook has long neglected the Pages interface but that all changed today with some big changes. The best way to summarize the changes is that your Facebook page will function more like a user profile does. A couple of the extremely welcomed new features:

The ability to comment on your [...] Continue Reading…

Save travel and searching time with a custom Traffic Map

DC Traffic photo credit: Joe Shlabotnik

Rich Price appears on Press:Here and will join me live Wednesday night

You might have read my post a few weeks ago about the “Chain of Life 2.0″. Since then this story has received (rightfully so, and certainly with little to do with my post!) a lot of coverage. Yesterday Rich and the app were featured on Press:Here on NBC. He [...] Continue Reading…

Episode summary Interview the Interviewer Episode 2 – Jennifer Neeley (Podcast)

This is the second episode of a new monthly feature on my podcast where I interview “interviewers” in this case The A-List host Jennifer Neeley. Jennifer interviews social media and journalism influencers and thought leaders about what they do, how they got there and the passions that fuel their journey. [...] Continue Reading…

Monitor any Facebook Page for Posts, Comments and Content

As someone who manages and participates on a number of Facebook Pages, I have always wondered why Facebook does not give us the means to monitor user activity on pages such as posts and comments. Until recently I used a Google Reader entry that uses Feed My Inbox to [...] Continue Reading…

Chain of Life 2.0 and what it means to the San Ramon Valley Community

I had the great opportunity to get a sneak peek of Chain of Life 2.0 a few weeks ago and several weeks to ponder the impact of it in the San Ramon Valley Community (and beyond for that matter). I was attending some of the afternoon sessions of the [...] Continue Reading…

Episode summary Blogger Ethics with Guest Danny Brown (Podcast)

Recently Danny Brown to joined me for a discussion about blogging ethics and transparency. Danny Brown is co-founder and partner at Bonsai Interactive Marketing, offering integrated marketing, social media, digital and mobile marketing solutions and applications. His blog is featured in the AdAge Power 150 list as well as [...] Continue Reading…

Why do you blog?

I was reading a comment today from Ileane and she was sharing with me that her daughter got her into blogging. I also learned not too long ago that Gini Dietrich started Spinsucks because she was frustrated by the way that many PR professionals created a very poor impression of the [...] Continue Reading…

Learn about personal branding from the Brandapalooza panel

What is personal branding and why might it be important if not essential to you and your success?
Our panel: Amber Osbourne a.k.a. @missdestructo, Olivier Blanchard a.k.a. @thebrandbuilder and Mitch Neff @mitchneff will be discussing building personal brands in Social Media next Wednesday on my Brandapalooza Blog Talk Radio show. All three of [...] Continue Reading…

Thumbnail tips and tricks for posts with embedded video (Video)

I was writing a post about the importance of including images in posts with embedded video’s recently and discovered a great little “hack” to hide said images so that only the thumbnail would show up when shared. This post is the result of that discovery, it solved a long [...] Continue Reading…