Social Media in the Workplace – California Central Valley HDI

Tonight I gave a talk on Social Media to the California Central Valley HDI Chapter and students at Modesto’s Institute of Technology. It was an honor to have such a wide range of people to talk to. When surveying the members on what they wanted to hear about in regards to social media I received […]

Adding a Facebook Like Button to your WordPress Website

Earlier today during the F8 Conference, Facebook announced some of their new social plugins that can be used through any website. I instantly got excited about this because now I can enable my websites with a Facebook Plugin that will allow viewers to not only share the specific page on my website they were viewing […]

Everything You Need to Know About the Value of Social Media Sites

With all of the self proclaimed “social networking experts” out there it is hard to decide who to believe and trust. Most of them want money from you in trade for what they call their “experience”. However what makes me smile is that almost none of these people have any business experience at all. If […]

How to use Fourquare, Gowalla, Brightkite & Yelp to get More Business

Everybody is on Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Yelp, so where are you? These are great tools to spread the word about your business and help promote it. [audio:http://blip.tv/file/get/Jeradhill-HowToUseFourquareGowallaBrightkiteYelpToGetMoreBusine428.mp3] Download the audio. Mentioned Links: http://Foursquare.com http://Gowalla.com http://Brightkite.com http://Yelp.com Jerad’s Foursquare Profile: http://foursquare.com/user/jeradhill Jerad’s Gowalla Profile: http://gowalla.com/users/jeradhill Jerad’s Brightkite Profile: http://brightkite.com/people/jeradhill Jerad’s Yelp Profile: http://jeradhill.yelp.com iPhone App […]

Socialnomics

Watch the following video below and think in terms of how you view social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter. Does social media marketing, initiatives, and strategies pay off? Definitely. But, only if done really well. But what exactly is the payoff? What is the true measurable ROI? I’ve had more than a few […]