Happy New Year Don’t Tweet, Drink and Drive Tis the season (or day) that most of us go out to celebrate the New Year with friends, family and in many cases a few drinks. Police, of course, have known this for ages and set up checkpoints to find those who decide to put their (and other people) lives in danger. According to research these checkpoints...

The Mystery Of Twitter Hashtags If you are new to Twitter, and wonder what the funny looking symbol (#) means or have seen strange phrases and comments appear with the “hashtag” annotation in your stream. You may have asked yourself what does this really mean? or Why are there so many people tagging there tweets with this foreign...

Fun Facebook Apps To Avoid By now most of us know how fun Facebook can be to keep connected with family and friends, play games and make new connections. However, like most things in life too much of a good thing is almost always contradictive to our well being. There are literally hundreds of Facebook apps, that can be exciting to...

Get On Board With TweetDeck What is TweetDeck? It’s a third party application developed by Adobe Air to help you manage your Twitter account. Unlike the Twitter home page, TweetDeck provides you with the tools you need to maximize your Twitter experience and enhance the benefits of having a Twitter account. Once you acquire hundreds...

Un-Friending Or Un-Following Is Not Un-Friendly When involved in the Twitter universe or inhabiting the virtual world of Facebook, getting out of a “relationship” in either case can be a sticky situation. Some people will take it very personally when a follower on Twitter decides not to follow them anymore, and others think the world has come to an...

Happy Holidays Just wanted to say Happy Holidays to everyone – I greatly appreciate your support and contributions to the site this past year. I will be taking the next few days off from posting to celebrate the Christmas Holiday and to work on a new submission/contribution incentive program. See you real soon ...

Using Twitter To Reach Your Customers Although it seems like social media is a new phenomenon, the fact is it has been around for many years. Groundbreaking programs such as AOL chat and IRC played host to many conversations between people, and facilitated thousands of online people to make contact and are the genesis of today’s social...

Giving To Charity The Facebook Way When you think of Facebook, you may only think of the innovative way to keep in touch with long-lost friends, far away family members, or establishing yourself in a business sense. However, there is more to Facebook than meets the eye. Facebook provides a venue for a number of charities to reach over 300...

The Power of Searching On Twitter Okay, you’ve been on Twitter a couple of weeks, have gained a few followers, started to get the hang of chatting with friends and family in “real time”. What else can you do with Twitter? Is it just a glorified chat program, or is there more to this form of social media than meets the eye? Twitter is...

Too Personal For Facebook? Facebook offers a status update, similar in many respects to Twitter. Your status updates appear in a feed, viewable by all the friends on your friends list. The option to upload photos is especially popular, particularly for loved ones who live far away and viral photos that get passed around. If you are...