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Facebook Timeline demystified
The Chicago Tribune’s Tribune Media Group has been working with CBS-2 Chicago News to help viewers understand changes in various social media platforms. This morning, the Chicago Tribune’s Tracy Schmidt discussed Facebook’s new Timeline feature and what that means for your Facebook presence. Tracy did an awesome job – she always does. I’d also like
Why big digital won’t win local business advertising
If you are a local business and you want to advertise, where do you advertise these days? It’s a great question. And one that many people are rushing to answer, because your advertising dollars – dear readers who are local businesses — represent billions of dollars in revenue for advertising agencies or media companies. But
Four destinations for understanding Google+ pages
Things are coming along nicely over at Google+ pages. The Googlers are hard at work adding all kinds of features. and you can read about them on a number of pages. The official Google blog, The official launch page for Google+ Brand Pages. A new resource that could become valuable as it evolves is the
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