Klout, an SMMT, is one of those companies trying to make their mark in the Social Media world.The Klout website defines the tool as follows:
“It’s a tool that  measures influence across the social web. Using …

During the last three weeks of working through the Career Focus program, one of my biggest tasks has been to find out which social media management tool (SMMT) is really best for County Media. …

This week we took a look at LinkedIn and I began to understand how important and beneficial LinkedIn can be for an individual. LinkedIn has more than 90 million members in over 200 countries around …

2011: a year of new beginnings. At least for me it is. It also is the year of the rabbit. For some of you who don’t know what that means, it is the …

I began working on my pet project, then dubbed PEC News in 2007. Way back then, the student interns developing the Web site had never heard of RSS feeds and didn’t know about free blogging …

Internet newcomers are often confused about avatars: What the heck the word means and how that user profile picture appears when you post a comment or engage in other online activities.
“Avatar” is a word denoting …

This isn’t as obvious as it may seem. Remember, most of the population doesn’t even know what the term social media means. Heck, even people in social media can’t agree on the language (social networking, …

SEO is an acronym for search engine optimization. Google, Yahoo and Bing are examples of search engines. You need to consider how search engines work in order to optimize the chances that something you post …

Today marks the beginning of Social Media Week, which is being celebrated at cities in several countries, including England, the United States, Germany and Canada. In honour of this second annual event – happening officially …

It really was great timing. Autom8 calls it serendipitous.
He was pondering his next blog post and I was doing research on social media in Hastings and Prince Edward Counties when **BAM** we collided online.
Here’s my …