According to the Adobe 2013 Mobile Consumer Survey, accessing social media is the number one mobile activity today. With this in mind brands and companies need to become savvy with this technol…
The Shocking Truth About Social Networking & Crime
Social media has become one of the most important communication channels in recent years. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Co. have been playing increasingly important roles in our lives, from keepi…
The Social Media Resignation: Bright Idea or Digital Downfall
A current and popular social media fad is the Internet resignation. Employees are looking for more and more public ways to resign or say, “I quit” in an entertaining fashion. Others simply want t…
Merging Social with Project Management – What are the Benefits?
Social media has not only become an integral part of our personal lives but also embedded itself into various business processes. It is playing a mission critical role in the digital marketing stra…
College Athletics: A Fuel for the Social Media Fire
Social Media has spread into nearly every aspect of college life. In the far-reaching, financially viable, much ballyhooed, and deeply scrutinized realm of College Athletics, Social Media is blazin…
Forget Blogging, It’s All About ‘Vlogging’
It doesn’t seem too long ago, where everyone was talking about blogging and just how important it was for every business to feature a blog on their website to engage with their consumers. However, it …
Infographic: The Internet Then and Now
In 1969, the same year that man first set foot on the moon, four American universities collaborated on a project called the Advanced Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). These four institutions—Univers…
Social Media’s Rise from College Outsider to Campus All Star
During a 2009 leadership conference, I conducted a session about social media. Memories still swirl in my mind from my audience’s warnings about the inability to control student postings, the…
How to Keep in Touch With Family and Friends When you Move Away
Just ten years ago, before technological advances and social media, smart phones and the Internet in most homes, people were limited on how easily they could contact their friends and family if they d…
How Social Media has Changed Us
It would appear that social media is here to stay. To come to any other conclusion would require looking away from the facts or foretelling some unpredictable calamity or sudden and dramatic shift in …