UPDATE: It appears this is actually a scam. The official Olive Garden Facebook Fan Page posted such. Obviously Olive Garden is not behind this nor supports it. However rather then pull this blog post, I still think it raises some good points around the importance of social media awareness and protecting your brand. The bigger culprit here is Facebook for making it so easy to facilitate this sort of thing on their platform. I was so irritated by my recent experience with Olive Garden on ...
Dave Barnes & Matt Wertz: Music & Social Media Done Right
One of my favorite things to see regarding social media is when one of the products, services or things I enjoy use it effectively. It’s surprisingly rare, but I’m finding more instances of this happening. None more so then from 2 of my current favorite recording artists, Dave Barnes and Matt Wertz. I actually found both artists by accident. I found Dave’s website a few years ago perusing through a web design gallery, and just happened to take a listen to one of his hit songs “Until You”. ...
Me & Microsoft: Round 2
10 months ago, I had the misfortune of being one of many Microsoft casualties in their rounds of layoffs. It was a pretty jarring experience losing your job and all. Especially when the reason you moved across the country was to work for the company. While I was certainly impacted from a financial perspective along with the worry of what's next, I actually felt more disappointed that they were letting someone go that had done quite well up to that point and had been a huge advocate for many ...
iPhone 101: How To Sync Gmail Contacts Without Using Exchange
1/2/2013: UPDATE Seeing as to this day, this is still one of my most trafficked blog posts, I felt it was important to update this post to reflect the fact that you can now accomplish what I originally wrote below without the need of a 3rd party app simply by using the Exchange option on your iPhone. There is no longer a 1 account limitation so just follow these steps and you are good to go! Open up the Settings app on your iOS device and go to the “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” section. ...
Social Media Friendly Blogging
Over the past year I've learned quite a bit about building traffic and driving awareness of my personal blog. I haven't done very well from a search perspective. There are certainly some improvements I could make that would make my blog a little more search friendly, but I just haven't made it a priority. What I have done well however is utilizing social media. It's pretty much the sole source of all my blog traffic, and in my opinion, much more fun to manage. The following are the ...
My 9 Favorite iPhone Social Media Apps
As if spending countless hours on the computer with social media wasn't enough, there's a quite a few excellent apps out there that help you manage, monitor and communicate through your social media channels on the go. Nowadays, a lot of useful software apps are now available to be downloaded in mobile devices like AntiVirus software or Smart Record App that will definitely help you, not just in daily life but also in your businesses. While some of these are quite obvious, perhaps a few in here ...
