Reddit: Smarty Pants? Meet Mister Splashy Pants!
Some friends of mine have been having success getting attention for their videos, blogs and other creations on Reddit, a social news website. In this short TED talk from 2009, Alexis Ohanian, the founder of reddit, talks about the power of the Internet to determine and promote memes and what it takes to make those
What’s my meme?
These are choice days for memes, which Wikipedia defines as A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they
Hello, It’s us! Shop local on Black Friday
I went for a walk in my old neighborhood the other day. I lived in Chicago’s Lakeview for about ten years. It’s a fun place with plenty of foot traffic, all kinds of shops, ethnic eateries and lots of cafes. It’s a prime destination for Black Friday. I was heartened to see so many shops
Pew: We use social networks to say hello
We’re not going social on the Internet to buy stuff. We’re going social to say hello to family and friends. So if you’re a small business talking with customers on social networks remember why they are there and see how your offerings can help them better say “hello” or better evoke that feeling of saying
Google brands a powerful search and share for local biz
Google announced its Google brand pages Nov. 7 and you can find plenty of instructions and analytical writings about what works and what doesn’t. For an excellent account of how to get started, check out SearchEngineLand’s Danny Sullivan’s initial and follow up posts. Setting up a brand page itself is pretty simple. Google brands is experiencing