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Splash’s Boot Camps for CEO’s: The Audience is Listening
Share We’re not above blowing our own horns just a little here at Splash Media, so we wanted to share some responses we received to our latest round of Dallas-area Social Media for CEO’s Boot Camps, which happened the week of Aug. 23rd. But there is a method to our self-promotional madness: these responses indicate [...]
Read moreOklahoma City, Here We Come!
Share Tulsa, you’ve been great to us! Thanks so much for your friendliness and hospitality. But now it’s time to move on to Oklahoma City By the way, can you guess which one is Paul’s luggage? He might be brilliant when it comes to talking about social media, but when it comes to packing for [...]
Read moreApple’s Ping for iTunes Sings From The Social Media Songbook
Share Apple is already one of the top enablers for all the social media magic that happens in the world. How many times do you – or someone you know – update a Facebook status from your Mac? Tweet about an interesting news item from your shiny new iPad? Upload an iPhone 4 photo to [...]
Read moreTake Your Blog from “Blah” to “Blam!”: Lessons from OpenCa.mp
Share Is your blog content uninspired? No blogger is immune to the occasional writer’s block, so when it plagues your posts, follow these pointers from OpenCa.mp – an annual open source media and blogger conference – which our team attended Aug. 28 and 29 in Addison, Texas. In addition to offering lively discussions on the [...]
Read moreWhat Facebook Places Means for Small Businesses
Share Facebook made a huge splash last week with the official announcement of Places, the social networking site’s stab at a mobile location-based feature similar to Foursquare and Gowalla. While the feature is still being rolled out to everyone, the potentially huge significance for small businesses is hard to miss. What makes Places so important [...]
Read moreCoffee & Donuts Staff Meeting #1
Share Good afternoon! It’s been an exciting week here at Splash Media. This morning was the first of many Friday morning staff meetings. It was also the first time everyone was able to gather together in the same place as a company. We went around the room and introduced ourselves first and spoke a little [...]
Read moreIf You Want Followers on Twitter, Don’t Do Anything On This List
Share So you’ve attended one of our boot camps. You’re all excited and hot to trot about starting your own social media endeavors so you run back to your office and start your company’s first Twitter account. Now what? Obviously one of the first things you’ll want to do is get followers (everyone needs an [...]
Read moreWhy Splash Media and WebDex Media Joined Forces
Share When I was just out of high school, I saw the movie Nothing in Common with Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason where Hanks plays an advertising executive. I remember thinking then how cool it would be to be in advertising. In 2000, after more than 14 years in marketing and sales, I got my [...]
Read moreA New Kind of Survival Guide
Share “As you read this, there are: 1.6 million people checking Facebook 32,000 people watching a You Tube video and 10,400 Tweets just went out…” I just received a copy of our new CEO Social Media Field Guide. I have to say that this thing looks very good. The guide is social media primer for [...]
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