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My Thoughts on Google+

Wardell Latham — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:01:59 +0000

What It Is Google+ is Google’s latest venture into social media. Like other social networks it lets you create a profile, share text, links, photos, videos, and even your location. Whats Different About It Google+ puts the emphasis on Groups which it calls circles. To add someone to your network you must add them to one or more [...]

Ten Ways to Tell If You’re Addicted to Facebook

Wardell Latham — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:02:26 +0000

You give personal accolades on Facebook to people without Facebook accounts. You get angry at people in real life and then post comments on Facebook as if you were speaking directly to that person. You’re Facebook “friends” with people you don’t like. You get angry at co workers and casual acquaintances who don’t friend you on Facebook Facebook is [...]

Filtering Your Social Feeds

Wardell Latham — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:00:33 +0000

One of the unfortunate facts of social networking is that no two people are going to like or appreciate all of the same types of media or activities, and as more services pop up with the ability to integrate with your favorite social networks this may become a bigger issues for [...]

The Fiji Urban Hunt #fijihunt

Wardell Latham — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:20:36 +0000

Yesterday I had one of the best experiences involving social media since my immersion into it almost two years ago. The experience I’m speaking of is The Fiji Urban Hunt, which was sponsored by Fiju Warter, ING Direct and a number of other sponsors which can be found on the event’s web site. The teams for [...]

The New Digg

Wardell Latham — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:02:59 +0000

The new Digg adds features and layout which emphasize the users network instead of site wide content. I think this is a good move by Digg to stay competitive in the social media sphere considering the rate at which some networks are stealing incorporating primary features from other sites. The site [...]

My Take on MySpace

Wardell Latham — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:49:44 +0000

There is no doubt that MySpace is no longer the golden child of the internet that it once was and maybe it will never see those glory days again, but with a Google PageRank of 9 and an Alexa Rank of 21 it’s obvious the social networking site is far from dead. The [...]

Testing Twitter @Anywhere

Wardell Latham — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:59:56 +0000

@wardelldesign is currently testing out Twitter’s @Anywhere view this post at blog.wardelldesign.com to see some of the functionality. Visit dev.twitter.com to find out how to add it to your own site. Some of my favorite people to follow on twitter: @adonisLL, @JessicaLaShawn, @mrelevance, @littletechgirl, @KellyOlexa, @mjcarter, @koa, and obviously many more. If I’ve forgotten any one [...]

How to Win Followers and Influence Tweeters

Wardell Latham — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:12:40 +0000

Fill out your bio! First and foremost even if you don’t follow any of the suggestions mentioned here after. You should fill out your 160 character bio. Don’t try to be too creative or witty, any normally functioning adult knows you can’t completely surmise any individual in 160 characters so here [...]

Tweb Sites

Wardell Latham — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:27:47 +0000

The following is a list of Twitter oriented websites which provide services to enhance the Twitter experience. Twellow is a Twitter directory, and in my opinion it’s one of the best, if not the best Twitter directory on the web. Users can add them selves to up to three different categories, and [...]

Social Media Toolbox

Wardell Latham — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:23:53 +0000

Social Media Toolbox Wikipedia defines social media as media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. The following are some tools I highly recommend for for managing and disseminating information across your online social channels. Shareaholic plug-in for Firefox and IE8 lets you easily share information across a multitude [...]