Tag Archives: social media
May 02

The secrets to Freddie Wong’s social media success

  Meet the true face of @klout. While marketing guys like me struggle to attract followers and leap with every retweet and mention, Freddie Wong (@fwong) dominates more than the arcades. Since this video of his “YYZ” Guitar Hero cover went viral six years ago, Wong has not only created multiple viral videos. He’s created [...]

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Apr 27

3 things I hope to gain out of Friday’s Social Slam in Knoxville

Seven months ago, I was an unpaid social media intern at a startup, working a part-time job and giving guitar lessons to home schoolers. Today, I work full-time for a marketing firm that is about to launch its biggest business venture. Aside from my financial well-being, not much has changed. That statement may undermine my [...]

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Apr 25

Your new social network is not Facebook, Pinterest, or even Myspace

I’m so sick of hearing about new daily deals sites and social media networks. With the success of the big social networks–Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn (the list goes on)–some folks assume that they can reach the same level of success just by being a social network. Sounds like another dot com bubble burst to me. [...]

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Apr 16

Monday Morning Links: Google, Obama and the world’s top web brands

It no longer takes a world of effort to connect with people around world. According to Social Media Today’s Brian Solis, the global degrees of separation is shrinking, thanks in large part to the expanding Internet. “Social networking is the new normal,” Solis writes. “No matter where you are in the world, there are social [...]

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Apr 11

7 principles for talking about religion online

Nothing stokes more online flames than religion. I learned this early in my copy writing career when a friend and I, two theology nerds, decided to start a religious blog. At the time, online forums began to enrapture me. I fancied myself an online, 18-year-old William Lane Craig. But I quickly discovered the Internet is [...]

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Mar 28

Takeaways from the SMC Knox spring fling with Ryan Sauers

Tuesday night, I had the privilege of joining Ryan Sauers and the Social Media Club of Knoxville at the Blue Coast Grille Margarita Loft for a wonderful night of learning, networking and free tacos. I’d never been to a SMC Knox event before, and to be honest, nothing frightens me more than flying blind into a [...]

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Mar 26

Monday Morning Links: Pinterest, copyrights, fact checking, Google art

In light of its ongoing growth and changing design, Pinterest’s visual experience was bound to bring up the copy right issue at some point. Last week, Gonzalo E. Mon wrote a piece on how to save yourself the lawsuit when you’re pinning for business. While personal accounts will not likely attract the attention of the [...]

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Mar 19

Monday Morning Links: Apple gives money back, Amazon goes half-off, how to hire

Looks like you won’t have to pay $600 a share for Apple stock after all. After the iPad 3 helped Apple’s stock soar, Mashable reports that the computer company is thinking differently about how it relates to shareholders. “There are several reasons Apple is giving dividends,” Todd Wasserman writes, “but the primary one is that [...]

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Mar 12

Monday Morning Links: Amber Case, SNL, cyborgs and SXSW

There’s always a cool conference I could be going to right now. Tuesday marks the last day of SXSW Interactive, the four-day social media/technology conference based in Austin, Texas. The social world flocked to hear keynote addresses on how technology has not only shaped business, but humanity as a whole. SXSW, or “South By Southwest,” [...]

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