Warning – Pinterest Best Buy Spam Spreading Quickly

While enjoying my daily Pinterest addiction, I was shocked to see one of my own repins  show up on Pinterest as a Best Buy giveaway. I quickly rushed to delete it, but the repin and edit buttons were nowhere to be found! I then tried to report the original pinner, who coincidentally I wasn’t even [...]

Top 10 Myths About Twitter Spam Accounts

How do you know who to follow on Twitter, when even your friends have become spammers?

How NOT To Beg For A Shorty Award on Twitter

Shorty Awards are here again, and just like any awards program where people need to be nominated and voted for, some people truly have no clue that their incessant begging will more often than not, force people to vote against them, or at minimum do more harm than good.

Dear Social Media Expert: I Raise Your Unfollow With A Block And A Blog

I was unfollowed this morning for saying no. Actually I said no twice, which I assume is what made her mad at me. I wasn’t aware that if someone RTs me, that I owe them something. And when I say “something” … I mean  an advertisement cleverly disguised as an infographic hosted on my site and [...]

It Gets Better (If You Stick Around For It) #ItGetsBetter

A beautiful viral movement has started: It Gets Better. It all began because of one man’s outrage over the senseless suicides of young gay teens who ended their lives because of bullying. But for me,  it’s more than that. We lose our children every day to suicide. For whatever reason they feel they have no [...]

Top 10 Reasons I Did Not RT Your DM Request

This article is not meant to offend anyone, but I am sure it will. If you have ever been asked to retweet links for someone, at least I think you can sympathize. I have spent hours defending my right to say no to a retweet request. At some point I realized it’s time to just [...]

Tweet Yourself To A New Ride or $25,000

Well here is a giveaway we can all get excited about. CarMax is giving away a car valued at up to $25,000, or if you prefer $25,000 in cash. Also 8 first place winners will receive a $250.00 gas card in their weekly giveaway. A few rules you need to know: It’s only valid for [...]

Who Is Behind The Nobel Funk Off?

Words can not describe this viral music video billed as “Quite possibly the funkiest supergroup of all time. Peace Out.” Just watch as the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa exhibit some funky sounds in the name of peace in this high quality video. A bit of research reveals absolutely nothing about this “group”, [...]

World’s First Guilt-Free Shower Cam From Burger King?

Santa is just bringing all types of gifts for the naughty this season. Burger King U.K. presents an interactive webcam that urges viewers to “seize the day your way” by watching a live cam girl shake her buns (pun intended) and everything else while singing in the shower. The largely male viewership is Burger King’s [...]

Even Ev Thinks I Should Unfollow Everyone

Over the past few weeks I have been asked numerous times how I feel about people unfollowing everyone and starting over. I have also witnessed many people I know actually doing this. I have always held steadfast in my opinion that I feel this is wrong, but there are deeper reasons why I will …

Digg: A Beginner’s Guide

I have been playing around on Digg for over a year, and I do enjoy the thrill of getting an article to the front page. But learning Digg is not easy. I started out like everyone else, I was clueless as to how to achieve a popular submission. I began by trying to get my [...]

Are You Risking Twitter Account Suspension?

Seems the person in charge of Twitter’s suspension button has been a little trigger happy lately. You have all seen the messages of panic flow through the streams just as I have. With all the spammers still busy tweeting away, the Twitter staff must have something that is triggering these suspensions. Makes you wonder what [...]

There is no right or wrong way to use social media…or is there?

I characterize myself as an observer in the YouTube community at this point. I have been watching numerous videos and trying to learn more about the people behind these video creations and the massive community of users that enjoy and participate within this social media outlet. It has been fun so far, enlightening at times, [...]

Social Media Changes Lives

I was very touched by Shane Dawson’s video. He just hit 1 million subscribers and posted a video about why he does this. I feel it’s awesome that someone who felt so left out now feels  a sense of value in their lives all because they opened up to the world and shared a bit [...]

Jeff Goody’s Controversial Holiday Rap Video [NSFW]

Jeff Goodby’s rap in this Goodby, Silverstein & Partners holiday video has him debating old school and new school advertising and PR  against a young employee. This is sure to be a viral social media hit. I’ll warn you up front this may be a bit inappropriate for work as the language and content are, [...]

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