Oprah Leaving Television – Ding Dong the Oprah insiders are dead!
By now we’ve all heard that Oprah is going off the air to found her own Oprah-dom on cable which we know will be amazingly successful. The announcement has filled me with glee, when I consider that all those Oprah-esque PR insiders who provide you tons of tips, insider secrets, oprah-show advice etc. will also hopefully be cleaned out as well. If it’s time for Oprah to have a new start, it’s also time for everyone who has ever paid thousands of dollars to consultants just “hoping” they’d get the right Oprah teleseminar-guru-recipe for being on the show to have a new start too. For those folks, I h

7 Signs Your Social Media “Expert” is Not So Social…
7 Signs Your Social Media “Expert” is Not So Social: 1. You ask them about measuring metrics and they say, “Metrics, metrics, we don’t need no ‘steenking’ metrics.” Helpful Tip: Measurement of social media activities should be happening using tools like Radian6, HubSpot Grading tools, and some from Mashable’s list here. 2. Early on, you ask the expert how often you should tweet and they say, “As much as you like, just keep in mind n

FiledBy Inks Deal with Scribd
Image via CrunchBaseFiledBy has made another incredibly smart move and partnered up with Sc

7 Ways To Succeed In Social Media
1. Build your personalized Google profile today so you are visible in search. 2. Add Twitter to your LinkedIn.com account – you can do this now and it will help folks see your “mindshare” on LinkedIn.com too. 3. Be committed to sharing your actionable insight on your blog and then go DIGG it as well. 4. Claim a Twitter account if you’ve not yet done so. Twitter is not going away and it will continue to be refined for better usage and accessiblity. 5. Add your

You Might Be A Social Media Junkie If…
Nielsen recently released an interesting study on social media usage and social media junkies. I thought I’d post my own list of items for you to determine if you are a true social media junkie or not. For someone (me) who is always trying to balance the online with the offline, I feel your junkie pain. You Might Be a Social Media Junkie If… 1. You’ve told your immediate and extended family that the best place for them to find out what you’re up to is on Tweetdeck. 2. Instead of an emergency phone number on your children’s school informatio