Please welcome our newest regular columnist, Ryan Crowe. He likes to describe himself as “a young, whippersnapper upstart working in the uncultivated field of social media” but he’s actually a really bright and awesome expert in Google+ , specifically, and a grad student at the University of Missouri, interested in sociology, memetics  (“memes not genes”), and cultural/digital anthropology. So clearly, he seemed like a perfect fit for our SocialFishing blog. Social media is, by most accounts, a young field just starting to be cultivated by businesses. Engagement? MORE >>

Tweeting between business and customer is now quite common. With 100,000,000+ users, businesses have much to gain from twitter for business. As tweeting has become more popular, writing a good tweet has turned into an art form; one that many businesses do not embrace or know. However, to stand out among the rest, it’s important that your small business employs these best tweeting practices to make the best tweets possible. Two Types of Tweet. Original – This is created from your own words completely. Link – Here the bulk of your tweet is a link you wish to share. Key Points to Remember. MORE >>

Gartner has an interesting graphic they created which I stumbled upon after reading a CMSWire article. The image helps explain the email paradox which is email is not the best method for information sharing and distribution yet it’s not going to go away. The image compares email with social networking and looks at several variables. The most important portion of the visual which explains why email is not going to go away is ubiquity, this in my opinion is the greatest factor that is keeping email alive. So if email isn’t going to go away what’s going to happen to it? MORE >>

Do you struggle with starting your posts?  Does the blank page stare back at you for hours as you muster up “something” to get started? The stakes are high because your readers want more advice, solutions, guidance, and tools – not less.  So, you need to blast through “blogger’s block” and get your post written. As of today, this will be my 230th post. have this blog post writing “thing” down to a science and we’re going to talk about how to consistently power through the first 10 minutes of writing a blog post.    . Do this: 1. Start with an outline. . This will ease the mental pressure.  MORE >>

In 2005, I took the plunge from climbing the corporate ladder to entrepreneurship. It wasn’t a conscious decision. More done out of frustration with the way communication results were handled (or not handled) inside agencies. thought I had a better way. did  have a better way, but it took me five years to get the business to a point that we could do things differently. To the point other business leaders would listen to something so radically different than what they were hearing from other PR/marketing/communication firms. It wasn’t because we couldn’t prove it worked. MORE >>