Inspired by Gareth M. Skarka, I am doing a quick year in review of my own personal social media and web projects. I hope you can indulge my self focus. Many of the projects never went anywhere, but I learned so much from small tests, little steps, and the generosity of others who shared their [...]
Recently I have been looking for an application that could show me follower overlap between two Twitter accounts. A number of uses came to mind for this feature, but the most pressing was around @free. While I knew that @universifree our student focused account had gotten followers beyond the @free audience, I didn’t have a [...]
The new Klout score is really broken. The numbers are no longer clear or useful, just like the image to right. I say this as someone who saw Klout scores go up for most of the accounts I manage or consult for. A couple client accounts had small to medium drops and my own personal [...]
I spend a considerable amount of time work on the @free Twitter account and related sites. @free is an inclusive but increasing a youth oriented brand. Certainly we have readers from all age rangers, but the majority of our audience in under 25. And while I have learned a considerable amount about our readers tastes, [...]
Google Plus is new enough that I am only beginning to understand all the nuisances. Aside from looking at how Breaking News, Mashable and my local paper The Lawrence Journal-World are using it, my use cases are fairly limited. The experience I am going to share is isolated, but it is first hand. How @free [...]
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