Archive for May, 2012
Facebook Easing Friction for Pages to Promote Posts
I hopped onto Facebook today to update it with one of the latest articles from Uloop and was greeted with a new feature. Would You Like to Promote This Post…for a Fee? So in this case, Facebook will let me pay $10 to ensure that this post reaches approximately 3,300 people. Our page generally reaches [...]
The Journey Begins – Homeless for a Summer
As many of you who follow me on Google+ know, this summer, I sold almost all of my possessions and I’m going to be homeless. Before you jump to conclusions and think that I must be insane, let me explain. I currently have a web-based job with a startup called Uloop. My job consists of managing and recruiting [...]
Writing – You Don’t Need a Degree for it
I’m always struck by the fact that people believe you need some kind of college degree to be a writer. Writing is a basic form of modern communication, and it doesn’t take years of training to produce a decent piece of work. In fact, I think everyone, no matter their profession, should take some time [...]
My Beef With Twitter: Taking the Engagement Out of Social Media
I started tweeting in 2011. I think I had an account for a year or two before then, but it took me a while to “get into it.” When I finally did, I fell in love with it. It was a way to constantly watch and participate in conversations with people that I knew (or [...]