This past Wednesday, I attended another exciting Social Media ON TAP event. This month our speaker was Alex Ihnen, owner and editor of the wildly popular news site, nextSTL. His site is completely run by volunteers and yet it has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many other reputable […]
“I’m Here Tonight Because I Got Loud”: Takeaways from Ed Domain’s ON TAP Talk
Disclaimer: The following accounts are indicative of one man’s success. Before applying any of his practices to your company’s social media marketing, I highly suggest you read our post about Gauging the Risk of Your Company’s Political Blog to guide you through the process. As a digital agency near St. Louis, jWeb Media is lucky […]
Twitter: Your B2C Company’s New Customer Service Desk
You’re out at an electronics store looking for a new computer and having the worst time of your life. The staff is rude, they don’t answer your questions and seem to be pushing products you don’t want on you. You end up leaving without your purchase. Where do you go to complain? The customer service […]
How to Use a Social Media Platform as Your Company’s Blog
More and more, social media sites are shifting from sharing content to hosting content. This trend has caused some companies to question whether they actually need a unique URL or if it is better to build their brand directly on social media sites. Figuring out what’s the best option for your company means understanding your […]
John Henry’s Not Dead: Twitter’s Project Lightning Restores Hope in Human Workforce
Disclaimer: I am not a sociologist or psychologist, I am a writer and marketer. And as such, I study how humans think and interact in order to make my articles and stories more believable and relatable. Therefore, take my following analysis of human behavior with a grain of salt. The human in the above picture […]
Humans vs. Robots: The Future of Social Media
BuzzFeed’s Mat Honan reported on a “top secret project” that the former CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo, let them in on shortly before he resigned: Project Lightning. This new tool will be a major change for Twitter—a platform that has generally taken the back seat and allowed its users to express themselves and curate what […]
Have No Fear, the Robots are Here! (No, Seriously, It’s Okay)
Disclaimer: I am not a computer genius, nor am I a programmer of any kind. I don’t claim to be an expert. I am a writer. The following views are based on years of reading and analyzing not only news stories, but classic and contemporary science fiction, how people have reacted to technological advances in […]
What I’ve Learned from Sharing Our Office Culture on Facebook
At times, jWeb’s office culture can be elusive. Our small company has a lot of heart but it’s taken awhile to learn how to document and share it correctly. Even so, I’ve spent the last eight months experimenting with and tracking Facebook posts and across the board, posts about our office culture have been the […]
Gettin’ Chatty! Twitter to Increase Character Limit for Direct Messages
You’re on Twitter and need to send a private message to someone. However, you find you have to limit what you can say or even need to send multiple messages to get your point across. Because like tweets, Twitter’s private messaging system limits users to 140-characters. Or, at least it did. Twitter has announced that […]
The Rise & Demise of the Expert Guru Extraordinaire
“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.” ― Nicholas Murray Butler You’ve all seen them on your Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn feeds. The self-described SEO, Social Media, and Digital Marketing “expert/guru”. There it rests under their name like a title handed down to […]