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Web Business by Ken Burbary

Digital Marketing, Social Media, Web Technology

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Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

January 4th, 2009 · Comments · Social Media, Twitter

As an online network grows, it eventually attracts enough eyeballs to warrant the attention and efforts of spammers and scammers. Twitter has both. Over the last several days,  Twitter has been hit hard by a Phishing scam. The only surprise is that it took this long to occur.
The Wikipedia definition for phishing is:
“the criminally fraudulent [...]

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Mine the Gold in Social Media through Conversation Search

January 2nd, 2009 · Comments · Social Media, Twitter

Google has transformed our lives with its uncanny ability to answer the question, “What is X?”.   Enter any term and Google will tell you what it is and/or how it works. If Google’s spiders can find a web page, you can find the content within it using Google Search.
Enter Social Media.
The proliferation of [...]

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How I use Tweetdeck to supercharge Twitter

December 23rd, 2008 · Comments · Twitter

If you’re regularly active on Twitter for any length of time, you can quickly outgrow the standard way of using the service. By standard, I’m referring to the fact that Twitter provides a straightforward and easy to use web interface to update your status and send/receive direct messages. This method of using Twitter works but [...]

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