The Antisocial Network

An explanation of social networks and how they’ve been misnamed and misused and how to change that. Also a guide of how to maintain and grow multiple social networks.

Hashtags, What are They and Why Use Them?

Are you looking for a way to use Twitter as a source for traffic to your website? There are several things you can do to increase your efforts, but in this post I’m going to talk about #Hashtags and why they are important. You may not have heard this term before, but if you’re using Twitter on a regular basis you’ve no doubt seen them.

How To Use Hootsuite to Schedule Tweets

Scheduling tweets is a good way to market prior posts with the addition of different titles and or keywords as well as hashtags. Many times when you write a post people have a number of keyword searches that they use to arrive on your page. Even using due diligence when researching keywords it’s often hard to determine what keyword phrase or grouping will trigger the most viewers. By retweeing prior posts you can get them in front of the eyes of your followers that may have missed it before. Not only that, but you can and should try different keyphrases in order to generate more targeted traffic.

Help Me Spread The Dead – The Walking Dead Contest

Spread the disease. Get the word out about The Walking Dead with AMC’s new, um, “viral” game, “Spread the Dead.” or Help me spread the Dead

Power Twitter In Brief With Screenshots

So let me start this post off with… I’M AN IDIOT! I forgot I installed this super cool extension for Firefox Power Twitter“. It’s what Twitter is going to be some day. Inline video and images along with the 140 characters. It’s that last piece you were missing from Twitter delivered by default.

How to View Scheduled Tweets on Hootsuite

Hidy ho fellow social-medianites. I had to take a second and post a really quick tip for Hootsuite…which by the way I am starting to like more and more every day. However, I had a real issue viewing my schedules tweets. It doesn’t seem entirely intuitive so I decided to throw up a couple screen shots and show you how it’s done.

How To Update Your Facebook Fanpage Status Automatically Using RSS Graffiti

Updating your Facebook fan page is a great way of promoting new blog posts. If you post often or have multiple blog authors this can get to be a cumbersome and repetitive task. In the past, I used Twitterfeed to update my social networks. Due to a api error this has proven to be a dodgy process at best. So in the interest of automating status updates once again I have found rss graffiti to be a great fit. So let’s get started.

20 Social Media Resources For Bloggers

Happy Monday everybody. I thought I’d start the week off by posting my last 20, “social-media”, links. In the list below there are a lot of good tips and resources such as.

• Tips for getting more relevant followers on Twitter
• Facebook widget resources
• FBML and Facebook marketing
• Business directories on Twitter

10 More Droid Apps You Must Have

The beauty of the smart phone is that with new apps coming out all the time you don’t have to feel like you can’t have the new features everyone else does. When new apps come out you can simply download them and off you go. The following is a list of Droid apps I use all the time. Are these truly must have apps for droid? Download them for yourself and see if you can do with out them. Having these applications will drastically enhance your Android experience, but don’t take my word for it.

The Difference Between TweetDeck, HootSuite And Seesmic

Being a social media specialist I manage a huge number social networks for a large number of companies. It can be a lot to keep track of after a while with all the options out there. Shortly after I lost count of all the profiles I was maintaining it became painfully obvious that I needed a program for keeping track of the social identities. With all the options out there it can be confusing to know which program to use so I put together this review to help point out the pros and cons of each.

Great Big List of Social Media Development Tips

One of my many job titles where I work is Social Media Director. I’ve been maintaining all of the social networks for our many company websites. 12 sites with at the least 3 social networking accounts attached. You do the math. Over the past couple years I’ve picked up on some really great tips and tricks from across the web. The list below is not only filled with useful plug-ins and software downloads, but also many great social networking communities and top gurus in the field.