On April 30th Starbucks rolled out a Facebook app allowing customers to manage their Starbucks cards. The app may be found on the Starbucks Facebook page. The app provides you with the ability to do everything you can do by going to the Starbucks website including loading your card and reviewing your transactions. This is pretty convenient for those of us who spend lots of time on Facebook. We don't have to leave Facebook to perform these tasks. (more…)
Is this what it's come down to. Our life is shared with others in 140 character increments. Is this the end of communication as we know it? Will our children ever learn how to read and write. Will novels still be written? Probably, but time will tell.
From the movie “Field of Dreams”
This Guest Post is written by Lauren Friedman, Community Genius, at Context Optional in San Francisco. Like the title infers, Lauren is a genius at social media marketing and Facebook in particular. We're very proud to publish a post of hers. If you are interested in publishing a Guest Post, please read the Guidelines on the homepage and get in touch with me. Oh, I almost forgot, Lauren also happens to be my daughter! We hope she'll write for us again in the future. So, you've decided to join the rest of the world on the quest to market via social networks. Congratulations! But you can't completely remove yourself from under a rock quite yet. (more…)
I am a fairly average American. I spend a fair amount of time on the internet. I write this Blog. I am a member of the Problogger Community, and Viral Networks the social media marketing network. I have a Facebook page and a Facebook Fan Page. I am on Twitter, LinkedIn, Yelp and Plaxo. I have a bit.ly account, and I use HootSuite and TweetDeck, Seesmic, and SocialOomph. I share my location on foursquare, enter comments to other blogs through Disqus, and I use WriteToMyBlog, and Chitika Ads. I Stumbleupon, I Digg, and I'm Delicious. Like I said, I'm a fairly average American spending time on the Internet. (more…)
