Becoming a greater part of the social web isn’t about starting an account or even clicking buttons to the tone of “friend me” or “follow me”. Utilizing less mainstream social media takes time learning, researching and investigating. Before jumping into an online community, you should educate yourself on the clients or target-audience you [...]

With the release of Google Buzz, Google has been catching a lot of attention lately for making a big social media play. But let’s not forget that Google has been in the social media game for some time, developing social tools and acquiring social media companies left and right. (See Google Already Social) Google’s first [...]

The scope of Social Media includes everyone and everything (even the hardcore skiers who spend more time on the mountain-side then they do a computer). In Montana, if you don’t ski, you have to ask yourself at least once a winter “why do I live here?” Montana contains amazing big-mountain playgrounds, all with a [...]

Twitter is great. You can keep in touch with friends, keep abreast of the latest breaking news, and much more. Sometimes you want to share a url with your followers as part of a tweet, but the limitation of 140 characters can put an end to that quickly.  Don’t worry though, there are [...]

According to the EtherPad Blog, AppJet–the program’s creators–have recently been acquired by Google. Etherpad is a program created to allow users to invite others to collaborate on a document.
So why would Google be interested in acquiring Appjet when they already have Google Docs? For one, AppJet’s EtherPad allows users to make changes to [...]