Social Media Articles


Content Strategy: Or 5 Ways To Be Likable

By Tuesday September 18th, 2012

Being likable in the real world is often a result of successfully mastering five basic traits... being informative, entertaining, relevant, consistent, and honest. In the same way, these five traits make for a successful content strategy for your website or business.

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Gamification: Turning Boring Tasks Into Adventures

By Thursday December 1st, 2011

Now that technology has made it easier to introduce game mechanics into our digital experiences, people have coined the term gamification to describe this common strategy. The key to successfully gamifying your brand is focusing on creating incentives and rewards for meaningful actions, or the user will feel unfulfilled and there will be no opportunity for long term brand loyalty.

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The Future of Purchasing – It’s All About Social Status

By Wednesday September 28th, 2011

The future of purchasing just might come down to your social status and how you interact with your friends and followers on the social web. This post proposes a not too distant future where your clout (or Klout) effects what you have access to, how and when you receive benefits and what you're required to pay.

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Time to Tune Out iTunes. Turntable.fm is Here.

By Wednesday August 31st, 2011

Turntable.fm is the newest social networking site you’ve probably never heard of. The concept is simple: play music for you and your friends for free. Like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare, Turntable has that "it" factor that will allow it to succeed as a company, a music player, and a social network.

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Web Typography That People Will Read

By Tuesday July 26th, 2011

If you’re not a graphic designer, you may not realize that graphic designers pay attention to every detail of every word- right down to the space between each letter and the space between each word- striving to make content as easily digestible as possible. On the web, however, where it’s especially important to display your content well, designers tend to fall short.

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