Posts Tagged ‘social networking’
Q-and-A: Using social media to make connections in your career
Donna Farrugia is executive director of The Creative Group, a specialized staffing firm that places a comprehensive range of design and marketing professionals with organizations. She has more than 25 years of experience in marketing, business development and management. I interviewed Farrugia on the trend of using social-networking websites for business and how executives can [...]
Are you a social-marketing expert?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: How would you describe your level of social-marketing expertise? Student — I’m learning a lot about social marketing, but I’m not field-tested: 24.32% Solid — I’m putting [...]
How to socialize when no one is talking
This guest post was written by Matt Krautstrunk, a writer and social entrepreneur touching on social media marketing topics for Resource Nation. You can also follow him on Twitter @MattKrautstrunk. One of the hardest parts about trying to be social is overhearing others talking about how much fun they are having. Creating questions, discussions and [...]
Would a premium social-networking model cause users to flee?
This post was written by Mirna Bard, a social-media consultant, speaker, author and instructor of social media at the University of California at Irvine. SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social-media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: Would you pay a monthly [...]
Social Pro Files: Considering the human costs of social currency
This post was written by Troy Janisch and Mark Anderson. Both contributors have two decades of digital marketing experience and lead social-media activities at American Family Insurance, a Fortune 300 company. Janisch blogs at SocialMeteor.com and Anderson shares his art at Doodlehaus.com. Many companies judge social networks’ value by what they can get out of [...]
Why Google Me would start off at a disadvantage
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social-media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: Are you interested in the rumored “Google Me” service from Google? Yes — 50.78% No — 49.22% This might be the closest we’ve ever come to having a tie [...]
5 tactics to safely engage children in social networking
June is Internet Safety Month, so today’s guest post from Layla Masri of Bean Creative is a timely one. An avid SmartBrief on Social Media reader, Layla works with child-focused clients such as PBS Kids, the world’s largest children’s museum (The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis) and classic children’s programming such as “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and [...]
SMSS: How to use LinkedIn with business savvy
This post is by Brooke Howell, SmartBrief’s small-business editor. When Lewis Howes crushed his wrist, along with his dream of making his fortune playing football, and ended up bedridden on his sister’s couch with no college degree and no job, he could have made best friends with Ben & Jerry and whiled away the hours [...]
