Twitter: Optimize your search
A recent article in Mashable, projected Twitter has around 18 million users. With users tweeting several times a day, the Twitterverse is getting pretty crowded. In all of the chaos, it can be difficult to find the information you are looking for.
Quick to respond to this problem, the HubSpot Internet Marketing Blog offers 6 Quick Tips to Search Twitter Like an Expert. I have listed the tips below with my thoughts about each. More »
Intern Intro – Meet Brianne
Hi everyone! My name is Brianne Dabiero and I am one of the new social media interns at Howard, Merrell and Partners. I will be contributing to the HM&P blog and I look forward to sharing my perspective on current events in social media with you!
I’m from Greensboro, NC and I recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While attending UNC, I majored in journalism with a concentration in advertising and Spanish. Although graduating was a bit of a bummer, I’m looking forward to my internship at HM&P. More »
Checking in with O2 Fitness
O2 Fitness is one of our clients here in the PR department at HM&P and we have had a lot of fun helping them spread the word about their seven (and growing!) locations around the Triangle.
O2 Fitness already runs their own Twitter account, Facebook fan page and blog. A new avenue of social media marketing we have explored with them are location-based applications. One of the new growing trends in social media – location-based applications – allow you to share your location with others by ‘checking in’. More »
Google Search Stories – Raleigh's Mad Men
Remember the popular “Parisian Love” Super Bowl commercial that had Googlephiles and sports fanatics alike oohing and aahing over a love story made possible via Google search?
YouTube and Google have teamed up to let anyone create their own online timeline via its Search Story tool. Enter up to six search queries, choose where you want to search (blogs, images, maps and more), pick a soundtrack and upload to YouTube. More »
B2B Blogging Tips Fit for the Queen (City): Jeff Cohen presents at Charlotte's Business Marketing Association
This past Wednesday, our own Social Media Marketing Manager Jeff Cohen presented “16 Best Practices of B2B Corporate Blogging” to the Business Marketing Association Carolinas Chapter. I was lucky enough to attend the lunch in downtown Charlotte, N.C. with a diverse audience of large and small business owners, agency execs, HR reps and freelancers, among others. More »
Google Announces 'Google TV'
Google has announced Google TV: a service built-into TVs or set-top boxes that gives you web access to find and stream video and more to your TV. As someone who doesn’t have cable or any other live TV subsciption, I get my TV content exclusivly from the internet via a Mac mini hooked up to my TV. Google TV takes the searching/streaming that I already do and makes it simple. Hopefully it’ll work as they describe in the video below, and I can add it to my technological arsenal.
Job Search: Tailoring your online presence to intended career path
Earlier this week, Jeff Cohen, social media marketing manager, and I were discussing my post about the benefits of an online presence.
Jeff reminded me while an online presence is important during a job search, it is critical to tailor your sites to your intended career path. An interviewer would be more impressed with a candidate’s blog about industry-related topics, opposed to a personal blog about sports. More »
Lego Sculptures
Check out the the brick artist who creates all kinds of things out of legos for a living. You may have seen his work before he has been on Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel and he has a show The Art of the Brick touring Museums across the country. More »
