by amvandenhurk | Jul 6, 2014 | Social Media
Typically I don’t like to play Monday Morning Quarterback; however, I’ve got to call American Apparel out on their Fourth of July post and then their apology. I’m calling it all rubbish. Plain and simple. American Apparel does not have a stellar reputation with their... by amvandenhurk | Mar 6, 2013 | Social Media
There’s been a lot of chatter recently about reciprocal social sharing or syndication network with the goal to achieve greater social reach and SEO benefits for your blog content. Much of the criticism is valid; however the blame is misplaced. It is not the... by amvandenhurk | Feb 24, 2013 | Social Media
[youtube Last Friday morning, Phil Hollows, CEO of FeedBlitz, and I were have a long chatty conversation about a passion (or obsession) we both have: tea drinking. Now, you have to understand, Phil and I will talk about tea at least once a week. It is sort of like... by amvandenhurk | Jan 24, 2013 | Social Media
I’ll be honest with you. I was never a Myspace fan. I joined it back in 2007 on the urging of friends and I think I’m being generous saying I visited it a handful of times. In fact, I deleted by profile over a year ago because I never visited the site. It... by amvandenhurk | Jan 22, 2013 | Crisis Communications, Social Media
Just before the weekend started a story broke by Agbeat that Storify, the popular and useful social network service that allows users to create timelines or stories using social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, was making private Facebook messages... by amvandenhurk | Jan 15, 2013 | Mobile, Social Media
I felt like I needed to revisit Tumblr. It has been two years since I first wrote about it. Tumblr has grown quite a bit to over 80 million blogs. Like with every platform, it has experienced some growing pains such as outages and an infectious worm that comes when...