Hypocrisy, Bickering & the lovely land of Social Media — Why you shouldn’t be pissed at Mekanism (or Fast Company)

The crazy SOB’s over at Mekanism teamed up with Fast Company on a social experiment that is pissing off social media experts everywhere. The Influence Project is basically an online popularity contest that measures a person’s digital influence by monitoring how many times you can get your friends to click on a unique URL (and whether or not they’re intrigued enough to sign up themselves). The person who influences the most people to click and sign up gets their... Read More

When “Personal Branding” goes too far

As we all know, the internet has become saturated with a bunch of self-made reality stars thanks to the advent of social media. Everyone is scamming to get a moment in the spotlight and unfortunately, as technology advances, people will find new outlets for “personal branding”, even if it means that you will be carrying around a strange man’s face on your cell phone. It’s one thing to be followed on Twitter for saying silly things and giving random advice... Read More

What’s your social media guru personality type?

Reflecting on many responses I received in regards to my previous blog post about being judged on social media expertise, It brings to my attention, all the different (yet ‘classifiable’) personality characteristics that are prevalent in some of the most recognizable social media gurus on the web. Now I’m not going to get as crazy with this to go as far as classifying a Myers-Briggs type, but I will make this enjoyable to read. Now get on and start sizing up... Read More