August 16th 2010 – Kids and Cyber-Safety
Wed, 4/08/10 – 8:36 | One Comment

When: August 16th, 2010, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Where:
Lakes Regional Library – Meeting Room A
15290 Bass Road
(corner of Gladiolus & Bass)
Fort Myers, FL 33919
Cost: Free

Kids and computers often go hand in hand. Online skills are …

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Professional Sports and Twitter Not Playing Nicely
Monday, 26 Oct, 2009 – 21:00 | No Comment

Since Twitter started gaining mainstream publicity, from CNN reading out tweets live on air, to Perez Hilton asking his 1.5 million followers to call the police one Sunday night, the corporate world has been wary …

FTC’s new rules for bloggers – preposterous?
Thursday, 8 Oct, 2009 – 17:34 | No Comment

Disclosure may simply be good social media practice
by Sara Fitzpatrick Comito
Jack Shafer has a problem. In his post earlier this week for Slate, Shafer takes issue with the FTC’s new disclosure rules for bloggers, calling …

Google Sidewiki – Allows Anyone to Comment on Any Website — via Rock The Boat Marketing
Thursday, 8 Oct, 2009 – 2:19 | No Comment

via google.com
This new Google commenting tool is very interesting and could quickly become something that big brands will have to pay attention to. Eventually, we all might. I think the Google …

Experimenting With The Newly Installed Facebook Connector Plugin on The Social Media Club of Southwest Florida Site
Thursday, 8 Oct, 2009 – 2:16 | One Comment

I'm experimenting with the newly installed Facebook Connector plugin setup by Brian Yerkes (http://www.brianyerkes.com/) on the Social Media Club of Southwest Florida's site.  You can find the plugin in the sidebar of our club's site …

twitTangle Beta Version Continues to Improve
Thursday, 8 Oct, 2009 – 2:15 | No Comment

I continue to experiment with the new online Twitter client twitTangle.  They continue to systematically improve the beta version of the software.  Many of the major bugs have been worked out.  The thing I find …

Ernst & Young Tops 30,000 Facebook Fans
Thursday, 8 Oct, 2009 – 2:09 | No Comment

I was interested to see that Ernst & Young had actually created the first Facebook fan page.  I found this interesting for two reasons.  First, I have recently been researching how professional services firms …

October 20, 2009 – Social Media, HR and Job Hunting in Southwest Florida
Friday, 2 Oct, 2009 – 14:38 | One Comment

In today’s hyper-competitive economic environment hiring and retaining talented employees is critical to maintaining an organization’s competitive advantage in the marketplace. Many successful firms and organizations are now using social networking and social media tools to identify, screen and higher staff. Social networking tools have proven to be very cost effective in reaching out to prospective employees and engaging them with your organization.