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Facebook: All Your Data are Belong to Us

Image via CrunchBase If you’re using social media, or basically anything on the Internet these days, you are really kidding yourself if you think you have true privacy.  That said, Facebook’s latest change to their terms of service states that they own all...

Social Media Seminar: Twitter and LinkedIn

Image via CrunchBase Brian Wallace, President of NowSourcing, will be providing the next in a series of social media seminars, this one focused on how to use Twitter and LinkedIn for your business. Join Brian and other participants from 11:00AM-1:30PM and discover how...

Digg is Off its Rocker

Image via Wikipedia Time for a fun Friday post. Digg has really been coming out with some strange stuff recently. Last week, you probably saw the David at the Dentist video, but you might not have seen that the Digg community burst into song off of Bukowsky’s,...

Fun with WordPress

The new site here has been converted wholly into the new blog layout/format, so there is a single UI throughout the site.  Thanks to a little WordPress fun, this was a pretty easy conversion. So, SEO friends…what do you think about displaying your entire site...

When a Chat Becomes a Blog Post

Sometimes the best blog posts stem from conversations with our friends. In case you missed it yesterday, we talked about a post on the implications of people that are deceased from chatting with a friend. Today, I had a chance to chat with my friend Mark Dykeman,...

Social Media for the Recently Deceased

[image credit] An SEO friend told me about an unfortunate situation that he was facing.  A close pal of his from a popular social networking site he frequented had recently passed away. The site in question, despite this unfortunate death, sent out reminders for the...

Upcoming Blog Changes

Image by » grahamblackall via Flickr You’ve probably noticed the new change of clothes around here.  Why just have a change of clothes when you can have a whole ensemble though?  Here is a list of things to come: Social media case studies – enough...

Week #8 Meeting My Neighbor?

It’s been a couple of weeks, so it’s time for a #10in10 update.  And a bit different of an update this time.  If you’ve been following my whereabouts lately or are in the area, you’d know that Louisville has been hit with a powerful ice storm...

How is Your Blog Pitching Rotation?

[image credit] I’m a sucker for analogies.  Baseball analogies in particular.  Even if you don’t like baseball, you should appreciate this one: your blogging staff is like a pitching rotation. For those of you that *gasp* don’t know baseball well...

SEMMYs: We Have a Winner!

On Monday, we had announced that we were a finalist in the 2009 SEMMYs for viral marketing.  Dan Zarrella’s post on How Social Media Users are the Most Contagious Viral Seeds has now been declared the winner! Here’s how the voting turned out: Many thanks to all...