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A2SM Podcast #91 – Twitter’s New Features
Published on 2011-12-09 16:39:25
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody discuss Twitter's new features, Google+ allowing phone calls in hangouts, Facebook is nipping at Google's heals and letting private photos go public and much more. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #90 – Neal’s Hacking
Published on 2011-12-02 11:00:59
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody talk about the benefits of Google Plus, whether or not the FTC/Facebook ruling will do anything, Arabic is the fastest growing language on Twitter and much more. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #89 – The Pepper Spray Edition
Published on 2011-11-25 11:00:28
We're missing Neal (he's on Daddy duty), so Seth and Jody are joined by the Queen of Google+ herself Lynette Young. In this episode the gang talks about Google+ trending topics, Lt. Pike and the pepper spraying incident at UC Davis going viral on the web, Facebook is acting like Prodigy and much more. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #88 – Only You Can Protect The Internet
Published on 2011-11-18 11:00:21
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody talk about how the record and movie industries are about to bring down the Internet, Google+ has it's third best week for traffic, Youtube gets a facelift, Twitter can predict who will win the presidency in the US and much more. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #87 – Two Thirds Improved
Published on 2011-11-11 11:00:05
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody discuss the best features of the new Google+ brand pages and what they failed on. They also discuss Facebook's popularity and it's effect on local ballot initiatives and much more. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #86 – Google’s Got It
Published on 2011-11-04 11:00:19
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody are joined by Robert Anderson from the The Definitive Guides To Google+. Topics include the new additions to Google+, Facebook having trouble with security, Twitter straying off, Klout sucks and we tell you why and much more. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
It’s Hard, But Don’t Feed The Trolls
Published on 2011-10-31 14:27:32
It's hard on Social Media to avoid them. They're ugly, stinky and bad tempered. Trolls are the bane of everyone's existence online. You can avoid them and we've all have given in and fought back against them. But I'm here to tell you to stop fighting them. Don't feed the trolls. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #85 – Exposed and Hyper
Published on 2011-10-28 11:00:15
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody discuss Google starting to allow pseudonyms on Google+, one Googler's reply-all nightmare, Facebook keeps getting in trouble, there's a new Twitter phishing scam and much more. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #84 – Jody Lost Her Lower Third
Published on 2011-10-21 11:00:33
In this episode Neal is away, Antony Spiteri from CrazyGeek.TV steps in to help Seth and Jody run down the news items happening in the Social Media space for this past week. Topics include Google Plus' new hashtag and real time search, Facebook being different kinds of creepy, Linkedin connecting classmates, Twitter is still hanging on to a potential revenue model and much more. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #83 – Troll Kicking
Published on 2011-10-14 11:00:40
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody discuss the passing of Steve Jobs, Google+ is not in decline, Facebook getting in trouble yet again, Twitter ticking off it's users, Jody kicks some Trolls' backsides and much more. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast 69 – Neal Wiser in 3-D
Published on 2011-07-01 11:00:33
In this episode Neal is driving southbound on I-95 through Philadelphia (using handsfree of course). We're talking about Google+, Google v. FTC, the best times to post on Social Media, there is a Facebook Phone and so much more. Click to go to the s > read more
BOOK REVIEW: LinkedIn Makeover by Donna Serdula
Published on 2011-06-27 16:44:22
I had the privilege of reviewing Donna Serdula's new book LinkedIn Makeover. It is a fantastic book that really breaks LinkedIn down into understandable and usable bites. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #68 – Lost In Space
Published on 2011-06-24 11:00:33
In this episode Jody and Seth hold down the fort while Neal is lost in space, President Obama starts tweeting himself, Daily Deals are full of fraud, Facebook is becoming big brother, Facebook app BranchOut takes on Linkedin with almost a million new > read more
You’re not a cowboy; why are you herding your customers?
Published on 2011-06-23 10:37:34
Welcome to the somewhat wonderful, vaguely controversial, unintentionally hilarious and occasionally awful world of scheduled tweets. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #67: Facebook For Murder
Published on 2011-06-17 17:18:51
Seth is at the 140 Conference so Jody and Neal are in charge. In this episode, a woman unravels a fake murder plot by her husband on Facebook, how to detect a fake Facebook page, Twitter DM's have a flaw, Congressman Weiner resigns and Groupon is the > read more
Taking your Facebook Business Page to the Next Level
Published on 2011-06-13 08:00:14
As a business owner, you already know that your online brand is very important. Is it the face of your company in the digital world. An important element to your online brand is your Facebook business page. This is a place where your customers and > read more
A2SM Podcast #66 – Addicted To Social Weiners
Published on 2011-06-10 11:00:52
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody talk about how to not get caught with your pants down on Twitter, how to quickly lose your job as a congressman by lying about being caught with your pants down on twitter, Facebook knows who are friends are via Fa > read more
A2SM Podcast #65: Moving On… We Need Less Caffeine
Published on 2011-06-03 15:07:52
In this episode, we're tongue tied talking about the new Twitter photo service, applying for jobs with Linkedin, Google's +1 button and so much more! Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
Lady Gaga Really Knows How To Use Social Media To Connect With Fans
Published on 2011-05-31 08:13:45
Regardless of what you think of Lady Gaga or her music, she has quite a following. With more than 10 million (yes you heard me right) followers on Twitter, Gaga has not only become a music star but a Social Media star. She has really capitalized on t > read more
A2SM Podcast #64 – Zuck Says, “Tread Lightly Gov”
Published on 2011-05-27 11:00:19
In this episode, Neal is in Tuscany so Seth and Jody hold down the fort. We're talking about how social media is being used to help in the recovery after the devastating Tornadoes in the US Midwest, Linkedin's security hole, you can now get a Google > read more
A2SM Podcast #63 – Rain Soaked And Wiserless
Published on 2011-05-20 11:00:17
In this episode, Seth and Jody are Wiser-less. They talk about Facebook, Twitter, Youtube/Google and the new Linkedin IPO. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #62 – Facebaked… You Don’t Put Your Mom In The Closet
Published on 2011-05-13 11:00:59
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody talk about Facebook hiring a PR firm to smear Google's good name in the press, Facebook working warn users of malicious links and also admitting that more than 100k apps have leaked user data, Skype is bought by Mi > read more
Online Daily Deals: A Breakdown of The Players and Their Futures
Published on 2011-05-11 15:01:58
Earlier this year, many were shocked when Google offered to buy Groupon for $6 billion. Even more were surprised when Groupon turned them down. Groupon did so because they saw themselves as the leader in a marketplace that was ready to explode. What > read more
Twitter Lists Have Their Place, But Could Be Better
Published on 2011-05-09 16:28:31
Are Twitter Lists a thing of the past? Do they have any usefulness anymore? They do for me. And this is why. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #61 – Ding Dong Bin Laden’s Dead
Published on 2011-05-06 11:00:35
In this episode, Neal is AWOL. Seth and Jody talk about Social Media and Osama Bin Laden's death, Facebook and Julien Assange going at it, Twitter buying Tweetdeck and so much more. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
Scheduled Tweets: Good or Evil?
Published on 2011-05-02 07:53:10
Welcome to the somewhat wonderful, vaguely controversial, unintentionally hilarious and occasionally awful world of scheduled tweets. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
BarCamp News Innovation Philadelphia 2011 Tomorrow!
Published on 2011-04-29 18:06:02
Tomorrow at Temple University's Annenberg Hall, hundreds of professional and citizen journalists will converge for the 2011 BarCamp News Innovation Philly unconference. The conference is a great forum that bringsjournalists of all types together tosh > read more
A2SM Podcast #60 – The Royal Pain In The Podcast
Published on 2011-04-29 11:00:41
In this episode Neal and Seth discuss the new Facebook "Share" button, Facebook's response to Groupon, the love triangle between Twitter, Ubermedia and Tweetdeck, Youtube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen buy Delicious from Yahoo and so much more. > read more
Your Social Media Guide to the Royal Wedding
Published on 2011-04-28 08:22:32
The Royal Wedding of William & Kate is this Friday. It is hard to escape this news as it has seemingly had 24 hour coverage on all new channels over the past week. Below is a guide to how to follow the event through social media, whether you hav > read more
A2SM Podcast #59 – Head Banging and Head Scattering
Published on 2011-04-22 11:00:31
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody talk about iPhone and iPad users being tracked by Apple, Facebook's increase security, Google releasing Offers, Listener John Colley tried to explain Cricket to Seth, Neal's seeing spots and much more. Click to go > read more
Twitter Buying Tweetdeck? This Could Be Bad…Or Good
Published on 2011-04-19 08:21:19
Update: Tweetdeck’s Richard Barley says that he can’t comment on the rumors. So there are rumors rumbling around the Twitterverse that Twitter might be buying the popular Twitter client Tweetdeck. I reached out to Tweetdeck’s commun > read more
A2SM Podcast #58 – Wiserdamus
Published on 2011-04-15 11:00:46
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody discuss Youtube Live, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, Myspace is dying, Foursquare and more! Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #57: Oh The Troubles We Have On The Internet
Published on 2011-04-08 11:00:57
In this slighty confused and all around crazy episode Neal, Seth and Jody talk about YouTube's new plans for content domination, Tweetdecks new Web client, Tweet Forging, Facebook helping out those who are still confused with what's a business page a > read more
Will Brand Pages Affect How Companies and Users Interact On Twitter?
Published on 2011-04-06 08:01:51
Earlier this week word got out that Twitter was considering offering companies the ability to create brand pages. These pages would be a place where companies could send Twitter users to provide them with information and encourage them to follow them > read more
A2SM Podcast #56 – OMG We Heart Jack
Published on 2011-04-01 11:00:59
In this episode Neal and Seth discuss Jack Dorsey coming back to be the chief product officer at Twitter, Facebook relaunches questions, the need for cloud girlfriends, personal profiles going pages, Google +1, Color, OMG and much more. Click to go > read more
A2SM Has Been Acquired
Published on 2011-04-01 09:00:18
A2SM has been acquired! Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
Social Media Communities Come Together to Help Japan
Published on 2011-03-28 14:44:46
Creators of The 2010 Holiday Tweet Drive start initiative to aid Japan 03.22.2011– PHILADELPHIA, PA – The team of volunteers that put together The 2010 Holiday Tweet Drive will host the #TweetDrive4Japan, a series of social media organized ev > read more
A2SM Podcast #55 – Social Media Trek
Published on 2011-03-25 11:00:18
In this episode Captain Kirk turns 80, Facebook on feature phones, Facepon, more targeted Facebook Ads, Twitter goes through growing pains, Google is going in circles its social networking plans, Delicious says goodbye to Yahoo and more. Click to go > read more
Charlie Sheen: Marketing’s Newest Guru?
Published on 2011-03-22 09:00:43
Charlie Sheen: Film star, television star, comedian…online marketing genius? Think about it. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
Twitter’s New Policy Toward Developers Is Bad Business
Published on 2011-03-21 12:31:21
Twitter's recent announcement to curb the innovation of it's 3rd party developers is going to hurt the service in the long run. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #54 – Your Social Media Friends… Are They Real?
Published on 2011-03-18 11:00:13
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody talk about Twitter's approach to their developers, Beluga and Group Messaging, the loop hole in the NYTimes pay wall, possible regulation coming from the US Government to protect our privacy and the government's sp > read more
Think spamming on Facebook is okay? Politician’s personal profile yanked for spamming; he sues.
Published on 2011-03-15 11:00:57
Social media advisers are often considered the schoolmarms of the internet, buttoned-up killjoys who scold happy business owners and public figures for exercising their natural right to spam everyone in their path. Of course, they don’t call it > read more
A2SM Podcast #53 – Interview With Tweetdeck’s Richard Barley
Published on 2011-03-11 11:00:06
This week we have a very special treat. Neal, Seth and Jody talk with Tweetdeck's community manager Richard Barley. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #52 – 52 Flavors of Social Media
Published on 2011-03-04 11:00:00
In this episode, Neal, Seth and Jody talk about Google's email nightmare, Facebook is dumping privacy again, Twitter's new Ad platform, the iPhone 4 for Verizon has a handling issue, the iPad 2 and more. Click to go to the site to see the full artic > read more
New Year’s Resolutions, where will your company be in 2012?
Published on 2011-03-01 16:08:27
Now is a great time to reassess your company’s marketing plan. Here are 5 things you should keep in mind as you create this marketing plan: 1) What is your goal and how will you measure success? There are many different reasons for having an effect > read more
A2SM 51 – Hi My Name Is Facebook
Published on 2011-02-25 11:00:24
In this episode our thoughts go out to the victims of the Christchurch New Zealand earthquake, an Egyptian father names his daughter Facebook, say Goodby to FBML, the LGBT community can now use the relationship status area on Facebook, Watson kicks s > read more
What Is a Social Newspaper?
Published on 2011-02-21 13:24:50
How we consume news is changing at a very rapid rate. Recent developments have gotten us closer and closer to a personalized newspaper. These services take information from your social network and organize it into a newspaper format. Each is a little > read more
A2SM Podcast #50 – Number 50 Baby!
Published on 2011-02-18 11:00:56
In this episode, it's our 50th podcast, the "Facebook Phone" is happening, Facebook changes the style of it's business pages AGAIN, Lil Wayne Makes New A Guinness World Record for Facebook "Likes", JC Penneys is using Black Hat SEO to game Google, a > read more
Building Relationships on Social Media; Post things people can relate to, leave out 99% of the negatives in your life
Published on 2011-02-16 09:26:52
Facebook can be used to share information about your business, but to really use Facebook for all it’s worth, you need to be building relationships and using those relationships to get more fans that will in turn drive more traffic to your actu > read more
What We Can Learn From Taco Bell About How to Handle a Public Relations Crisis
Published on 2011-02-15 07:40:20
This week we saw Taco Bell subject to a class-action lawsuit claiming that their beef is not really beef. That is quite a charge, and one that could cause major harm to their brand. The way Taco Bell reacted is a case study in how a company can effec > read more
A2SM Podcast #49 – Say Hello To The HuffinAOLCrunchet
Published on 2011-02-11 11:00:38
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody talk about AOL's latest purchase of the Huffington post, Twitter possibly being bought by Facebook or Google, the Super Bowl and the Ads, Groupon's tasteless Superbowl Ads, Kenneth Cole's tacky and selfish misuse o > read more
LinkedIn Rolls Out Free Pro Memberships Promotion
Published on 2011-02-09 07:40:13
Recently LinkedIn rolled out a new marketing campaign to promote their Pro level service. Via an email marketing campaign select LinkedIn users were offered one free month of Pro Membership. This entitles users to 3 Inmails, extensive search results, > read more
SalesForce Promotes Chatter With Superbowl Commercials
Published on 2011-02-08 12:58:25
During Sunday night's Superbowl game between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, Salesforce purchased some very expensive advertising time to promote their free social network specifically designed for businesses. Click to go to the > read more
A2SM Podcast #48 – Social Media… Giving People Everywhere A Voice
Published on 2011-02-03 20:25:55
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody discuss Social Media's effect on the protests in Egypt, Egypt's government turning of the Internet, the Linkedin IPO, Tumblr's founder telling complaining users to "go away", MySpace is for sale, Facebook reveals i > read more
A2SM Podcast #47 – A Nation of Google and Facebook
Published on 2011-01-28 11:00:26
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody talk about the plethora of Google and Facebook news, including Eric Schmidt stepping aside to allow Google founder Larry Page to take over the CEO job at the search giant, Facebook breaking user trust yet again and > read more
A Member of the Old Media Meets The New Media – And Likes It
Published on 2011-01-21 14:28:55
As a reporter for a traditional newspaper in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Christina talks about how she uses New Media to supplement and improve her job in Old Media. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #46 – We Miss Our Snow White
Published on 2011-01-21 11:00:00
In this episode, Neal and Seth are missing their Snow White, the Princess of A2SM, Jody. Yetb some how they made it through. Topics discussed include Steve Job's latest leave of absence and how it effects Social Media, Facebook (Need we say more), th > read more
Awesome Intel Youtube Video
Published on 2011-01-18 15:13:04
Intel gets the idea of viral and Social Media right with their newest video on Youtube. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
The Facebook Marketing Book by Dan And Alison Zarrella [REVIEW]
Published on 2011-01-18 14:32:38
Facebook is an important part of a business social media marketing strategy. With over 500 million users, many of them active, understanding the tools and features is critical to a marketing initiative. The Facebook Marketing Book (affiliate link), b > read more
A2SM Podcast #45 – To Mobile And Beyond
Published on 2011-01-14 11:00:11
In this episode Jody and Seth talk about the iPhone for Verizon Wireless, Android's amazing market share, Facebook and Foursquare, and more! Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
My Take On Quora
Published on 2011-01-13 08:12:54
Quora, it's the latest tech glitter to hit the Web. But what is it? Is it just a flavor of the month? Here are my thoughts on the Website called Quora. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more
A2SM Podcast #44 – Facebook A Bank?
Published on 2011-01-07 11:00:11
In this episode Neal, Seth and Jody talk about Goldman Sachs and Facebook being in the IPO bed together, Google being the most dangerous Website of 2010, DuckDuckGo challenging Google on privacy and of course our picks of the week. Click to go to th > read more
A2SM Podcast #43 – Our Social Media New Years Resolutions for 2011
Published on 2010-12-29 12:57:39
In this SPECIAL year end episode, Neal, Seth and Jody talk about their Social Media New Years Resolutions for 2011 and their Top Tools for Social Media. Click to go to the site to see the full article! > read more