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Social media might never be the same with Gink.  Live ginking a schmorkel?!?!?  Fabulously funny in my opionion, but you might need “earmuffs” toward the end. 🙂 Thanks to Lisa Foote for the find! #facebook #socialmedia

“People ask me if we have ‘made money’ with Twitter. Absolutely yes. But not how most business think. We have solidified loyalty and have our name out there, front of mind. Because of that, many social media meetups use our place. Patience! One has to believe that increased loyalty and awareness are a key to business growth.” That was the last paragraph in a recent Mashable article on How Small Businesses Are Using Social Media For Real Results.  The quote was from Joe Johnst

Dan Gustafson of The Social Media Weekly show on KRWC AM 1360 in Buffalo, MN interviewed me last week for a segment. Link to the show file We talked about social media in general, my Punch Pizza post on their social media promotion, Facebook’s new design and the Local University seminar I attended last week. I always enjoy talking anything web and look forward to chatting with Dan again on his Social Media Weekly show. #facebook #interview #smallbusiness #socialmedia

Nothing comforts a broken heart like food. Punch Pizza, with seven Twin Cities locations reached out to passionate Vikings fans on Sunday on various social media sites offering a free pizza the next night to help them deal with the devastating NFC Championship loss to the Saints. The result was nearly 10,000 pizzas given away (number from Punch Pizza), customers lined-up out the door, local TV news coverage and thousands of mentions on the web. Genius. Few restaurants in the

Bring a visual and creative guy, I’m a huge fan of data and information communicated with more than a chart or via tables of stats. This fusion of design and data is known as an infographic. Webdesigner Depot posted a great collection of infographics and the Facebook vs. Twitter example really caught my eye. View the full sized layout here. It was created in April 2009, thus not accurate with today’s numbers. This infographic also made me remember and miss the print magazi

Say what? A recent post on Noupe.com highlighted where the web will be in 5 years and has 15 different ideas/predictions to consider. Social Media Optimization may become the focus of online marketing, not SEO. All 15 of them are possibilities and the article provides a ton of links and additional information on each one. Here was one that caused me to ponder. #12 – Search Engine Optimization Will Be Less Important – In a nutshell it introduces the idea on how Twitter, Facebo

The explosion of photo sharing and tagging on Facebook is a big part of their success and user growth. Viewing photos on Facebook has increased to over 70 million photos being viewed per day. USA Today Tech writer Jefferson Graham interviews Facebook engineer Scott Marlette on the topic. View the article & video interview (Sorry, the video won’t embed) #facebook #socialmedia #video

I have many conversations with small business owners on Facebook as a marketing tool. For many it’s hard to wrap their mind around how to turn something viewed as social and fun into a business tool. It’s really not that tricky. There are the obvious routes of creating a fan page for your business and also Facebook ads, but many fail to see the potential in integrating more of their business into their own profile. Yes, fill out your profile, but how about pumping a bit more