Blog Action Day Last year I participated in Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty.  I had such a great feeling writing that post and knowing the fact that millions of other bloggers participated on that same day in order to spread awareness for that current cause for that year.  It was the biggest Social Event of the year and [...]

Support For Iran Election Crisis These past 2 weeks have been crazy with the crisis over in Iran regarding a revolting Election.  Mashable has written a great timeline of events if you need to get caught up with all the Social Media hoopla regarding the Iran Crisis here. A movement has been recently made to [...]

Power 150: http://adage.com/power150/ I have been awarded the Power 150 Badge and my blog is now published in the Advertising Age Power 150 Blog Rankings. If you don’t know what the Power 150 is here is an excerpt from the site.. “The Power 150 is a ranking of the top English-language media and marketing blogs [...]

Video Pocket Cam War I am actually in the market for a new pocket camera that is real easy to use, not too high-tech and for the right price.  Last year the Flip Video Camera killed the market making it popular to all consumers both tech savvy and non. With the increase in Social Media [...]

Chat Catcher by Shannon Whitley was one of my favorite WordPress plugins in capturing Twitter messages and beautifully displaying them as blog comments.  There was also a great support module on Drupal. I had announced earlier this month that Chat Catcher was shutting down due to high upkeep costs and lack of funding. May 15th 2009, [...]

  What is Chat Catcher? (http://www.chatcatcher.com) (creator Shannon Whitley) Chat Catcher is a simple Blog Plug-in Application that scans Twitter and FriendFeed for references to your blog posts. When someone links to your blog, their post will be published to your blog’s comments. What stood out Chat Catcher the most in my eyes is the sheer ability [...]

Great Ideas The hardest and most effective part of a blog or website is hands down the content.  Content comes from great ideas, which of course can come naturally or take a little time to come to. Brainstorming content while at your desk or workspace may not be always effective at the moment and may [...]

A new content discovery platform where bloggers can monetize on their talent (http://www.bloggersbase.com) I just recently discovered this website early this month in which subsequently I just found out that the website just started in December 2008. The website is called BloggersBase.com and is a new Blogging community where you can share your content, enter [...]

  About 6pm EST the Twitter world has witnessed a massive DM response saying “hey! Check out this funny blog about you? http:/ / j an nawa litax. blogspot. com ” (Don’t click ont that link) The link turned out to be a Re-Direct Phishing Scam to a Fake Twitter Log In Screen.  The idea behind [...]

The 80/20% Statistic is used in Social Media to be used as a guideline when promoting your self or your business. Many users and sites have developed similar guidelines like 1 out of 4 promotion or every other promotion.  The bottom line is that most guidelines and roles to follow can be based on the [...]

Qwitter Tool Qwitter is a Twitter tool that e-mails you whenever someone un-follows you on Twitter.  The e-mail will tell you what your last tweet post was when the follower last followed you. The Pros of Qwitter Before I get into the reasons why you should not use Qwitter, let me just point at the [...]