I’ve written lots about Foursquare for retailers, this post is focused on how you as a consumer or end user can use it. But first…
What is it?
Foursquare is a location-based social networking application for “smartphone” mobile devices (currently Blackberry, iPhone, and Android) and is also a game. Users “check-in” at venues using their mobile phone [...]

Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo!, is one of the most popular photo storage and sharing sites on the web. It’s free, easy to use & offers a variety of methods for sorting, categorizing and tagging images. People can comment on and rate pictures, and photos can be made private or only viewable by friends and [...]

Many of the online marketing and social media campaigns I see these days focus on the big three networks; Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. Occasionally a smattering of Flickr, and some social bookmarking sites and of course YouTube, which is the one I want to talk about today.
YouTube is the most popular video storage and sharing website [...]

I’ve been on Linkedin since March 2005 and today I learned something new about one of the oldest networking sites on the web. In the 5 years that I’ve been using Linkedin I’ve never actually “disconnected” (the Twitter equivalent of “unfollow”) from someone, until today.
I have to admit I was stumped when it came [...]

…it’s so true. This video with Seth Godin is chalk full simple wisdom. You don’t need thousands of friends or followers.
What you do need is a “tribe”.
An authentic tribe of friends, colleagues and customers that you have something in common with, can converse with and share relevant, useful information and stories with.
Don’t waste your time [...]

If you don’t have Google Analytics (GA) set-up on your website yet you need to do that right away. I provided instructions about how to add Google Analytics to your site in a previous post.
GA is a very powerful tool and the majority of websites aren’t leveraging the full value of what they have at [...]