Social Media

elance.com + 99designs.com – I have been reading a lot about spec work recently. This post from Chris Brogan got me up to speed. Spec work is when an individual/company asks a community of designers for work, lets say a logo. 50 designers submit 50 logos and one gets picked as the best and gets [...]

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I’m not talking about being able to steal cars, and carry around big guns here. But we are the Nintendo generation who grew up being told we were special. So what better way to make our way through daily tasks than with achievement rewards like you see in Role Playing Games (RPGs). Would you load [...]

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Facebook recently rolled out new features to allow social integration for third-party sites. Pictured here you will see ‘the like button‘ plugin in action. To implement this button on your website you just have to copy and paste a snippet of code, super easy, and now you will have a like button that, when clicked, [...]

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After watching the White House Conference on the Great Outdoors live-streamed at whitehouse.gov/live, I came away asking myself what I could do to bring the outdoors into people’s everyday lives. I came up with the “Get me the heck outta Dodge…” iPhone app. It would be a GPS-enabled app that uses google maps to find [...]

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Search William Roth on Google and you can learn all about the late Senator from Delaware, whom the Roth IRA is named after. The problem is that William Roth is my name too – and I don’t show up until page 2, or Goo. People in social media need to have a front page presence [...]

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I looked at the whiteboard and couldn’t believe that my social media plan-of-attack looked so messy. It was time for a coffee-fueled cleaning session. I decided to make a distribution flow chart organized by what I was sharing, and branching every possible option using MindNode (generally used for mind maps).

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