Social Media Here to Stay

Ben Parr of Mashable writes a very exciting post today for those who currently have and hope to find a job in social media, myself included. Ben discusses the current popular status of social media jobs, and his outlook for the near future. Ben writes: “Even if the title changes, the role of the social [...]

Twitter Offline But Raising Bank

Just got online and noticed Twitter is down…again. I’m a relatively new user to the service and wasn’t sure if these outages were normal or not. A quick Google search reveals that although the company just raised $15million dollars on top of the $5 million it previously raised, blackouts are still a common occurrence. A [...]

Online Ad Revenue up 26%

Well, heres proof that online ad spending has been increasing big time as expected. This Ad Age article reports that Internet Ad Revenue reached $21.2 billion in 2007. Thats a 26% increase from 2006. Crazy numbers! That now puts Internet above radio and even cable spending. Here are a few interesting facts behind the figure: [...]

Google yourself

Every now and then I’ll do a Google search of my name and see what comes up. Well I checked it out today and like usual, I’m pretty much nowhere to be found. Is this good or bad? That question is debatable. Sure, it’s good that my search results aren’t littered with scandalous pictures or [...]