Is Social Media Under Attack?

Two articles caught my eye over the weekend, and got me rather worried about how traditional media and big business might be changing their approach to social media. While there have been encouraging noises made about the greater openness that social networking encourages, I wonder whether the former gatekeepers of information are quite as enthusiastic [...]

Freeware of the Week! [MahTweets]

Social networking has been chugging along nicely for a while now, and has grown into something that you’re almost expected to do, rather than fool around with once in a while. Along with that have grown a number of applications that profess to make your online social life easier to manage, but there hasn’t been [...]

Managing Multiple Social Profiles – a Strategy

I am further down the rabbit hole of social media than I ever intended to be. It all started off so innocently: reading a couple of feeds, starting this blog, being thrilled when I realised that somebody other than myself might be reading it. Then I escalated into sharing some of the articles and blog [...]

The Social Networker’s Business Card

If you live the majority of your professional life online, you probably belong to more than one social network. When it comes to letting your contacts know how best to find you, however, you may want to limit how many networks you list. This is especially the case when trying to design a business card [...]

Managing your Online Identity is Really Not that Difficult

TechRadar posted an article yesterday that caused me about two seconds of anxiety before I remembered that I didn’t need to worry. According to the article, as a consequence of bosses and HR departments becoming savvy enough to start Googling their employees, social networking sites could eventually become nothing but stale, PR-conscious extensions of our [...]