If you haven’t figured it out yet there’s lively conversation streaming across social media platforms that goes far beyond the casual interaction. While gabbing on Twitter and Facebook amounts to fun and games most of the time, the ability to utilize the platforms has increasingly become a marketable skill in landing a job. It’s also [...]

Reputation management has now become a defining feature of online life for many internet users, especially the young. While some internet users are careful to project themselves online, others embrace an open approach to sharing information about themselves. Search engines and social media sites play a central role in building one’s reputation online, and many [...]

Digital market maven, Head of PepsiCo’s Digital efforts and keynote speaker at our upcoming Social Media Integration Conference, Shiv Singh is slated to appear on QuicknDirty – a Podcast outlining unique social networks, twits and new media strategists – on Wednesday, August 26th.
Author of “Social Media Marketing for Dummies,” Shiv is known for focusing on [...]

Welcome to those of you who picked up the printed edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Sunday job section and found the interview with me, Leonard Witt, about how to find a job using social media.
As mentioned in the article our marketing expert, Carole Arnold, produced an excellent slide share presentation on how to effectively use [...]

Jesse McDougall, a speaker at the upcoming Social Media Integration Conference, is the co-founder of Catalyst Webworks, a web development and social media consulting firm in White River Junction, VT. He is the author of several books about internet ventures including Expand Your Business Using eBay, and Start Your Own Blogging Business.  Jesse recently sat [...]

Oliver Blanchard is the type of person that can get 55 comments on his BrandBuilder Blog biography. His turn-ons include “anything innovative” and his professional background in 80 words or less amounts to choppy sentence fragments and big name dropping – just to fit it all in.
For a consultant and speaker who, by his own [...]

Whole Foods has one of the most followed accounts on Twitter and the Social Media Integration Conference’s speaker, Marla Erwin, was at the center of their social media launch.  Recently she answered a few questions for us so that we could share just a few of her insights with the world.  If you’re interested in [...]

300,000 Businesses have a presence on Facebook.
Gary Vaynerchuk grew his family business to $50 million using social media.
Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive return on investment.
96% of Gen Y have Facebook accounts.
Social Media has overtake porn as the #1 internet activity.
1 out of 8 couples who married last year met through social [...]