1. Don’t just sign up for a Twitter or Facebook account
Creating a community doesn’t happen overnight, so certainly it wouldn’t happen within the fifteen minutes it takes to set up a Twitter or Facebook account. Follow, be followed, earn respect, and become friends with each and every person in your community.

If you are a Twitter fan, you might have noticed something different about the Olympics this year. According to the International Olympic Committee, athletes will be allowed to tweet to their hearts content throughout the games. That is, as long as they are talking only about their individual/personal experience at the Olympics. [...]

Social Media should always be used for good, and it already has proved itself as being a positive world changer. When the earthquake hit Haiti, Twitter filled with organizations spreading the need for aid. Giant relief corporations jumped in too, Red Cross launched a cell phone campaign that offered an easy way [...]

Google is entering the social media realm, (oh wait, they already have and now it’s just becoming news). If you type Google Social into any search engines’ news section you will come up with thousands of articles harping on the release that Google is going social. How are they doing this? Well, [...]

There was one thing missing from the Super Bowl football advertisements this year, one brand decided not to air a single commercial throughout the game (at least not for their most popular soft drink). If you didn’t notice, Pepsi chose not to use the big bucks it normally spends on hawking up another 30 [...]