What is social media spam?

facebook spam

Spam is a word that gets thrown around a lot. It used to be pretty easy to determine what constituted spam. If it’s an email you didn’t want trying to sell you something, then it’s email spam. With social media spam has taken a new identity, but what is it? The thing with social media [...]

Empire Avenue’s poor communication has made for rocky changes

Empire Avenue recently changed their dividend payout formula and it sent waves through the community. For the past 2 weeks many EAv’ers have been tweeting developers and submitting tickets complaining about falling divs, myself included. Many established influencers quit over the issue. After settling down thinking about the changes I believe most of them are [...]

Social media management, monitoring, and analytics

sendible social media management

Managing social media can be tough for individuals and small businesses. You need to post status updates, find people to interact with, track results from interactions, monitor what people are saying about your business, and many other things depending on your needs. Sendible is a service that markets themselves as “Social Media Management for Small Businesses,” and [...]

How Empire Avenue benefits your social networks.

blog traffic increase

Empire Avenue is a game/social media analytic mashup. The social network ratings are easy to wrap your head around, but what can playing the game do for you? Personally I’ve seen hug benefits from my efforts on Empire Avenue. My blog traffic has increased significantly, my Klout score has gone up 10 points, and I [...]

Give meaning to Twitter’s #FollowFriday with Klout

klout +k

“Follow Friday” has become diluted, and I think Klout +K can save it. #FollowFriday (#ff) is the weekly  Twitter practice of  suggesting people to follow. You simply add the #FF tag to a tweet with a users @name in it. Klout +K is a new feature that lets people vouch for someone as an influencer of a topic. [...]