@AdAgeStat, one of my favorite Twitter accounts <insert bias>, celebrated its one year anniversary on June 15 (the coordinating blog turns one on July 6). The account is AdvertisingAge’s social marketing and stat (and I mean A LOT of stats) focused content run by Matt Carmichael (@mcarmichael), director of information projects. To celebrate the milestone [...]

Have an iPhone and use it to take photos? Enter the “quirky” photo sharing network and app, Instagram. The iOS-only app currently has a user base of 4.25 million in only seven months, with ten photos being posted a second. Pretty cool. If you’re new to the app or thinking about downloading it, here are [...]

Today, Pew Internet released its most recent study on the “role that digital technology plays in people’s social worlds.” It’s chalk full of interesting findings, including: user behaviors, social networking sites (SNS) impact and lots and lots of tweetable stats.  To make the study as easy to digest as possible, I pulled my favorite breakout [...]

Facebook rolled out a new feature that makes tagging friends easier in photos. You may not know this, but you’re automatically “enrolled” in this new feature by default. If you don’t want Facebook to “recognize” faces in the photos you post, you can turn it off. Here’s how:

Go to your privacy settings.
Click “Customize settings.”
Scroll down [...]

Opinion piece on CNN.com
(CNN) — Since I eat, breathe and sleep social media, when I hear someone’s online account has been hacked, tampered with or altered in any way I can’t help but feel bad. When Rep. Anthony Weiner announced last week not only that his Twitter account was hacked, but also that [...]