Let it Snow… and Stop Posting About It!
In case you didn’t know it was snowing in Chicago…. This is a perfect example of why some prospective clients think that social media is a forum for discussions about the consumption of breakfast food and the weather. When something as trivial as snow overwhelms my Facebook newsfeed, I can only imagine what it would ...
Less Graphic with Graph Search
Recently, my blog posts have been a lot more personal than they used to be. Being authentic and open is important to me because that is the driving force behind social media. Raw conversation is so valuable. Yesterday, Graph Search was installed on my Facebook account. It is a very promising feature but to my ...
What Not To Post: Your Illegal Activity
Even police departments are using social media to catch criminals! Jacob Cox-Brown, a teenager from Astoria, Oregon, was arrested for a hit-and-run after posting on his Facebook page about the incident. His post, pictured above, has to be one of the biggest, or at least the most stupid, gaffes I’ve ever seen on Facebook. Two officers responded ...
2012 Social Media Blunders
Some of the best social media blunders of 2012 have been circulating around lately and I figured it would be best to share these so that you can prevent this from happening to your business page! If you use a platform like Hootsuite, Tweetdeck or Sprout Social, make sure you are posting content to the ...
‘Tis the Season for Greedy Tweets
I know it is the season of giving but as a huge fan of Buzzfeed.com, I had to share their post from yesterday titled “People Who Didn’t Get What They Want For Christmas.” We usually use social media during the holidays to post family photos, decorated houses, Christmas dinner, etc. However, there are always those ...
What Not To Post: Medical Test Results
This one should be a understood but some people just can’t seem to contain themselves when it comes to sharing all the nitty, gritty details. I came across this update on my news feed last night and had to share. T.M.I. at its finest.
@YourInAmerica
There’s a new Twitter Bot in town and you don’t want to mess with this grammar conscious corrector. The account is predicated on a hilarious concept, hence over 12,000 followers in just a few days and after less than 70 tweets. The bio states: Correcting people saying your in America and telling others to learn to ...
What Not To Post: Cryptic Messages to Company Pages
As most of us now know, Facebook has allowed users the ability to privately message business pages. This is a new feature that can be set on or off depending on what the page administrator prefers. Gossip Genie clients have this feature set on as we like to communicate with fans should they have a ...
What Not to Post: Michelle Phan #Fail
Michelle Phan – 25 year old, self-made millionaire. While working as a waitress in 2006, she began posting makeup tutorials on YouTube. Her makeup videos, which include titles like, “Romantic Valentine Look”, “Makeup for Glasses”, “Brighter Larger Looking Eyes”, and her most popular video, “Lady Gaga ‘Poker Face’ Tutorial”, were almost instant hits. Her videos have been ...
Old People on Facebook
Have you ever taken a second to look at the posts on a large business page’s wall? It is usually filled with unformed sentences, misspelled words, free product requests and more miscellaneous comments. For this reason, a blog had to be created; “Old People Writing on a Facebook’s Restaurant Page.” As I monitor many of ...
