Social Media

  • Yahoo Answers dominated the Q&A space around 2010 when the Quora hype started and I originally wrote this article. Quora was barely visible at the start. In 2017 Quora finally overtook Yahoo Answers according to Google Trends: Many people ask…

  • “Here Comes the Future: Teaching Social Media” is a contribution by Dustin Verburg. I added the teaser image and text formatting like bold, italics, paragraphs, citations and lists. One day I read an article about a lawmaker in Trenton, NJ…

  • Quick Guide to Social Media and WordPress Categories vs Tags

    * One of the most annoying issues on social media, both from a user and a webmaster perspective is the often faulty categorization by users. Many people mix topics and categories in a way nobody really can appreciate. Why does…

  • Pinterest? You are doing it wrong! OK, I admit it, I have been using Pinterest for many years already. Yet I haven’t done any “marketing” over there. I just used it like a normal person would. By now I have…

  • You certainly know urban legends already. Stories, misconceptions and myths that sound enticing and thus get spread through gossip all over the place. Urban legends mostly proliferate where people use to meet for small talk, thus “urban”. The Internet is…