Social Media

  • With the meteoric rise of social media like Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest the rules for spreading your message online have changed. It’s no longer about simply optimizing content and building links for Google. Popular social media posts get substantial traffic…

  • Many people argue that there is no single social media to go after for businesses trying to “join the conversation”. They’re right to some extent but I disagree nonetheless. There are just 3 social media sites you have to join…

  • What to do when you need short URLs (concise Internet/Web addresses or URL forwarding) for Twitter or elsewhere? Either you use the proprietary t.co shortener by Twitter itself or bit.ly where .ly stands for Libya to keep the fuss at…

  • 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…