Over the past few weeks, I’m sure you’ve heard the buzz about Timeline coming to Facebook Pages. Well, this morning when I logged onto Facebook, I got this message on my business page: If you have a branded page, now is the time to start getting ready for this change. Click on the “preview” button on the message that pops up at the top of your page to see what your page looks like today with the new Timeline. Then,...

With the recent launch of new sites like Google+ and Pinterest, I’m hearing a lot of chatter about “change” — specifically a person’s willingness (or should I say … unwillingness) to embrace it. Yes, I know you are already familiar with the LIKES of Facebook. And I totally get that there are only so many hours in a day to tweet, but dismissing something new without even so much as looking at it is like pushing...

Facebook rolled out its new photo viewer to its users yesterday, and it looks strikingly similar to the way Google+ photos are displayed. Here’s a screen shot of the Facebook photo viewer. Here’s a screen shot of the Google+ photo viewer. Both provide visitors with a similar experience: Large photo on the left, with interaction panel to the right to tag photos and add comments. Very similar, wouldn’t you say? The change in...

If you’re like me, you spend most of your day hidden behind a computer screen. With email, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Google+…etc…I’m connected to my clients everywhere and anywhere. And all that’s great. It is. I love that I can click a button and instantly share my screen with a client who has a question. I love that I can share social media tips and resources on Google+ and chat back and forth with business...

In the past few days Google has rolled out several new features and enhancements to Google+. Here are a couple that caught my interest. One of the newest (and I think coolest) new feature on Google+, is the ability to record and share videos of yourself directly from your webcam. In a post yesterday on Google+, Shana Glitnik, an engineer on the Google+ Photos team, says to get started you just click the video icon in the share box and choose...

There’s been a lot of buzz around Google+, especially with the recent launch of “Google Search Plus Your World.” The infographic below (from July) shows a side-by-side comparison–including privacy, chat, friends and demographics–between Facebook and Google+. Vía | SingleGrain There’s no doubt that Google+ is catching on-and with these recent changes to search, I think it will continue to grow quickly over...