Small is the new large in social media, and I've no doubt that trend will only become more evident in 2012.  As users have got to grips with the platforms already available to us, we have come to realise the benefits in cultivating tighter, smaller and more valuable relationships with others onlin...

With a number of social media platforms available to consumers, we are always searching for ways to minimise our workload, and in order to do so, it often makes sense to want to connect together accounts so a distributed message can be sent out from one place. The following post provides just a few ...

Published as a Guest post on leading Northern Ireland Jobs Portal - RecruitNI.com There’s no denying that LinkedIn is becoming a force to be reckoned with in the Recruitment industry. With more than two million business professionals joining the service over the past nine months, the total ...

One of the recent darlings of social media is Klout, the social media performance gauging service that apparently lets you see how influential you are across Twitter, Facebook and now recently Google+. Its hard to be active in these networks without seeing a K+ high five here, or a blog post there...

Crowdsourcing is the new black, and there are a plethora of resources available on the web for a variety of applications.  Millions of volunteers have performed tasks such as cataloging Martian landforms and translating text into machine-readable form. If you've ever been frustrated by Captcha form...

There's no denying that the web is full of snake oil salesmen, and with the explosion of social media, there is no shortage of charlatans looking to make a quick buck, establishing themselves as consultants and 'social media experts'. Experts my arse. Give a man a Twitter account, and he'l...

Sometimes you come across marketing creativity that really makes you sit up and take notice. When faced with the unenviable task of searching for a job,  and marketing yourself,  the web and social media provides a variety of opportunities that wouldn't work with other mediums. This collection ...

Ex-Googler Vanessa Fox, and the team at NineByBlue have produced this great infographic using data collated from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Project for Excellence in Journalism. More information available here @ State of the Media 2011. Click to see it fu...

URL: http://www.hyperalerts.no/ Regulars here will already know when it comes to social media, I'm an advocate for keeping your ears close to the ground. When it comes to listening for brand mentions online, its never been more important to know what is being said about you, and when its bei...

With the advent of numerous location based services, and their widespread adoption, I've seen the uptake of KML based feeds within many services. This XML based data makes it easier for developers to associate content with a location, and we've already seen popular services such as Foursquare a...