• Lead Generation Card For Marketers launched By Twitter
    [May 24, 2013] Twitter announced the launch of a new card for marketers today – the Lead Generation Card.
  • WalkMe Upgrades it’s Website Guidance Services
    [April 24, 2013] WalkMe, Inc. announced upgrades to it’s service which allows website owners to create balloon style tips, making it easier for users to register, make purchases and perform any other task on your site from an easy drag and drop interface. The service now allows users to create to-do progress lists, automated guidance sequences for common [...]
  • Upgrades to LinkedIn Search
    [April 3, 2013] LinkedIn announced several enhancements to it’s search features yesterday, including streamlining people, companies, and job search into a single comprehensive results page. Previously you had to search for people, jobs or companies separately. This, in addition to several other features including auto-complete, suggested searches, algorithm changes, enhanced advanced search and automated alerts.
  • Google Introduces Enhanced Admin Access and User Permissions for Analytics!
    [March 14, 2013] A new system for user access control and user permissions is being introduced to Google Analytics in the next few weeks. The announcement that Analytics users will receive greater flexibility of access was made yesterday.
  • Amazon’s Redshift Now Available To Everyone
    [February 21, 2013] In November, Amazon Web Services announced Redshift, a “fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse in the cloud.” At the time, it was only available to a limited few customers as a preview service. Now it’s finally becoming available to all customers.
  • Elastic Transcoder Beta Launched By Amazon
    [January 31, 2013] Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Elastic Transcoder for Amazon Web Services for transcoding video files between different digital media formats. You can use the service, which Amazon says is highly scalable, to convert video files from their source format into versions that will play on smartphones, tablets and PCs.
  • How-To: Set-Up & Use Google Analytics Dashboards
    [December 27, 2012] First things first, if you aren’t using Google Analytics, set it up now. If you are already using it, I really hope your Home tab doesn’t have the default Dashboard. Yes, okay, it may be helpful to some, to know how many visits are coming through, but you should consider setting up multiple NEW dashboards, [...]
  • Redshift, A Petabyte-Scale Data Warehouse Service, Announced By Amazon
    [December 3, 2012] Amazon announced a limited preview of Amazon Redshift today, a new product from Amazon Web Services described as a "fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud".
  • Pinterest Becomes More Business-Friendly
    [November 19, 2012] Pinterest has launched new tools (as well as some new terms of service) for businesses.
  • How do LinkedIn?s new enhancements grade out for brands/users?
    [October 23, 2012] In case you haven’t noticed there’s one social network that’s really been focused lately on upgrading their platform. No, not Facebook. Not Twitter. Pinterest? Try again.
  • Fine-tune your LinkedIn profile with Endorsements
    [October 2, 2012] If you use LinkedIn, the social network for business, you’ll very likely be interested in a new feature LinkedIn is rolling out that gives you the ability to rate the people in your network on their skills and expertise.
  • Social Tip ? Twitter Rolls Out New, Simple Embed Timeline Widget
    [September 6, 2012] Sure you Tweet… you aren’t? Well, perhaps you should think about it… for those of you who do, Twitter has just this week announced a new tool for quickly and easily embedding your tweets into your blog or website. Using the widget maker, users can quickly generate a script pulling a users’ tweets, tweets from a specific hashtag or ?? customize the size, the style and more and then quickly add it to your website – see the right sidebar for my twitter stream as an example.
  • Pinterest Now Open To the Public
    [August 15, 2012] Pinterest is finally now open to any user who wants to use it. You no longer have to be invited. It's not as if an invitation was hard to come by, but this should only open the social network up to even more growth.
  • 3 non-profits using Pinterest to drive real social change
    [July 31, 2012] I hate to add another Pinterest-related post to the blogosphere, but I'm going to do it anyway. However, I'm not going to give you tips to "improve engagement" on Pinterest. That's been done already. I'm not going to give you ideas for images. That's been done, too. I'm not going to showcase examples of brands who are doing great and interesting things on Pinterest. That's been done, too.
  • How the New Twitter Search Will Change the Way Brands Tweet
    [July 16, 2012] Twitter has announced new changes to the way users search their database. These changes could drastically affect the way brands draft their tweets.
  • Pinterest Rolls Out Attribution For Flickr
    [June 21, 2012] Photo-and-idea sharing site Pinterest has been battling its way through copyright complaints practically since it was formed, even going head-to-head with image giant Getty over the way their images are being used and distributed throughout the site. Now, they're rolling out a way to make attribution and tracking easier for both the user and the owner of the copyrighted material.
  • 52 Cool Facts About Social Media
    [June 7, 2012] Back in July 2010, I wrote a post called "52 Cool Facts About Social Media". I wanted to have a look at some of the mind-boggling and truly impressive numbers from this space we play in.
  • New Google+ Android App Lets Users Start a Hangout From Their Phone
    [May 24, 2012] Google today announced that, finally, its update for the Google+ Android app has arrived. The update has already been released for iOS devices, and now the Android Google+ app has a similarly redesigned interface. Google also revealed why the Android app was delayed while the iPhone app was released weeks ago - Google has implemented the ability to start mobile Hangouts directly from the Android Google+ app
  • Google Redesigns the AdSense Payment Page
    [May 8, 2012] Google has updated the AdSense payment page with a new design, improved navigation and more flexibility with the payment settings. As Google said, "We'll soon be introducing some changes to the "Payments" and "Account settings" pages in your AdSense account. At the moment, this new payments interface is available to a small set of AdSense accounts, but we'll gradually roll it out to more publishers in the upcoming months."
  • Convo Provides New Web Version and Enhances Features
    [April 20, 2012] I have written about Convo before under its old name (see - Convofy Enables Comprehensive Collaboration Through Enterprise Social Networking) and am also a user at both Darwin Ecosystems and the Merced Group. Convo builds on the activity stream but adds additional features to enable more comprehensive collaboration. I recently spoke with Tad Staley about their latest moves. One of these is to simplify the brand name from Convofy to Convo and that I certainly applaud. It was simply a matter of securing the Convo domain.
  • Badgeville Offers Cloud- based Gamification Platform and Expertise
    [April 3, 2012] Badgeville provides the Behavior Platform? a cloud-based gamification platform that allows organizations to build custom gamification programs for their employees, business partners, and customers. I recently spoke with Kevin Akeroryd, SVP Field Operations of Badgeville, about their offering.
  • How Google?s Latest Change Might Upset Your Analytics
    [March 22, 2012] Earlier this week, Google made an announcement that may change the way some web analytics programs record Google search traffic.
  • The LinkedIn Company Follow Us Button
    [March 7, 2012] Social Media and sharing? there's so much of it out there! Luckily, many services are making it much easier for you and your company to share? even LinkedIn. thanks to the LinkedIn developer resource, you can now quickly and easily create a "Follow Us" button to attract more followers to your company's LinkedIn page - oh, if you don't already have a listing for your company you really should!
  • 5 Reasons Pinterest is Addicting and 4 Weaknesses That May Kill it
    [February 22, 2012] Like Google searches for M.I.A. after her Super Bowl middle finger salute, the growth of Pinterest is positively ferocious. A 329 percent increase in unique visitors in 90 days is the kind of rocket ship acceleration that is usually far more myth than reality, even in social media start-up circles.
  • Facebook Rolls Out New Lightbox View
    [February 9, 2012] Today for the first time I noticed that Facebook has rolled out a new lightbox view for photos. There were rumors of a new Facebook Lightbox view coming already out in the wild, but this was the first time that I saw it myself.