Online Social Media Update: Tips and tricks to improve Facebook

Managing and growing your online, web design, social media plan, and making it go needs all the tricks you can muster. This media update includes:
* 7 goals of successful community management strategy
* 5 questions every social media policy must answer
* The 10 Keys to Optimizing Facebook Engagement
* 7 Secrets to Getting More from LinkedIn
* Tips for managing multi-author blogs
* 20 Tricks to Make Facebook Better
.... and more from the continuing world of social media and networking January 23, 2013

Online Social Media Update: Reaching your reader

This Social Media update explores tips and tricks for utilizing social media to market brands and content. For designers and online marketers, this media update includes:
* The best day of the week for brands to tweet and update Facebook
* US social media ad spend to reach $9.2 billion in 2016
* Optimizing Facebook engagement: The timing of posts
* Young People Not Quite Ready for Twitter Primetime
* The Art Of Getting More Retweets
* Humanize your social media
.... and more from the continuing world of social media and networking January 16, 2013

Marketing Update : Data is the New Creative

January is almost over, so we're looking forward to February marketing. Interesting they're saying that DATA is the new currency . . . here's the latest marketing update :
* Don’t Ignore Direct Mail in Today’s Social Media Marketplace
* Press releases with visuals boost views by nearly tenfold
* Email marketing: Deliverability trends and benchmarks
* The power of content in building a brand
* The human touch of direct-mail marketing
* What's the matter with this picture?
* Data: The new creative
... and more January 15, 2013

Web Update for a new year . . .

Okay, here comes 2013 and a whole new year for out regular updates on Web Trends, tips and tricks just for web designers and online marketers:
* Don't click here ... plus 3 more ways to avoid Web-writing woes
* Best Practices for Building Your 2013 Enterprise SEO Campaign
* Mobile SEO Is Not A Myth: 8 Popular Claims Refuted
* Build the best relationships, err... I mean links
* Why 2013 Is the Year of Responsive Web Design
* Avoid high bounce rates on landing pages
* Top SEO fallacies: A myth-busting rant
* SEO — content, confusion, clarity
.... and the continuing online world January 11, 2013

Online Social Media Update for January

This Social Media update moves through January and looks at some new considerations for designers and online marketers. This media update includes:
* Facebook targeted posts improve your Facebook engagement
* 11-point checklist for a healthy social media strategy
* 5 things more important than Facebook page engagement
* 7 Tips for Creating a Social Media Plan
* What's your social media strategy?
* Increase your Facebook engagement
.... and the continuing world of social media and networking January 9, 2013

Marketing Update : Winter tips for the wise

Happy New Year, and welcome to the ever changing landscape of marketing, with some interesting statistics, tips and tricks -- offline and on. This issue helps us get in gear for the new year ...
* Lessons from the runways: What PR pros can learn from New York Fashion Week
* Social Media Marketing: Don’t Forget the Message
* Journalist shares 7 common PR sins to avoid
* Customer service is your marketing strategy
* The PR industry's high school stereotypes
* 7 habits of highly successful PR people
* Inside the mind of a marketer
... and more January 8, 2013

Can you afford to have your Macbook Pro or AirBook stolen?

Laptops are being stolen more frequently than ever before -- 38,000 stolen this year according to Mckeay, the security company. There are theft-rings and crime cartels that thrive on moving car-loads of laptops from city to city. Many times you have no chance at saving the device -- but if there is a chance, you'll make the most of it with anti-theft software running. December 28, 2012

2013 Online Social Media Update for a new year

This Social Media update breakes through to 2013, with predictions and lots of great tipe . . . here's the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013 media update :
* 30 tweets worth reading, retweeting, and maybe even printing out
* How to spot a trend: 7 social media trends that matter in 2013
* The Future of Social Media in 2013: Six Points to Consider
* 26 Tips for Managing a Social Media Community
* Email tweets directly from Twitter's website
* Using Instagram for Social Media Marketing
* 4 Ways to Improve Your Google+ Engagement
.... and the continuing world of social media and networking December 26, 2012

New Way to License Art

In my years as an employer of artists, designers and creatives, I've learned one thing: the better the creative, the worse the business person. Now, there's a new software package designed specifically for artists in the art licensing industry to help them track all aspects of their business. December 18, 2012

Five Best Portfolio Practices

Having a graphic design portfolio that stands out from the pack is important, even more so in today's tough job market. Here's a new feature article by creative director and co-founder of Carbonmade Dave Gorum revealing the five best portfolio practices. December 13, 2012