Category Archives: Social Media

Blogging Class in February

If you’re near Philadelphia, join me for the Main Line School Night blogging class in February.  Learn how to create, launch and update a free blog.  We’ll cover the pros and cons of free hosting sites and provide step-by-step directions for setting-up, posting and promoting your blog.  Blogging is an interactive and creative way to...

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iPhone Shoots Amateur Photogaphs

The free Apple app Instagram has announced that it has 15 million users.  What’s the big deal?  For starters, it’s really a social network.  You can “follow” other Instagram users after you register, and can leave comments on your favorite photos, just like with Facebook.  What’s neat about the app is that you can apply...

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It’s Time to Elf Yourself

It’s that time of year again – time to “elf yourself” with OfficeMax and JibJab.  Upload your headshot, or your pet’s headshot, or your relative’s, even your neighbor’s, and then spread the hilarious end-result through social media.  Happy holidays!  To do Elf Yourself, click here.

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Lowe’s Uses Facebook to Apologize

  Lowe’s made national headlines over the last week for pulling ads from a TV program about Muslims in America on the TLC network.  It then apologized on Facebook for doing so.  That posting is here.  As of this writing, that post has over 25,000 comments.  What do you think?  As clear-cut an issue as...

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Facebook is Top 5 Consumer Source

A recent post on the blog for Kinoshita Communications LLC shared the revealing results of a March 2011 study from CityGrid Media and Harris Interactive showing that, along with Google, Facebook is now a top five resource consumers go to for finding out more information on a local business.  And, findings show that 70% of...

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