It’s easy to imagine that social media will be around forever; Facebook and its 500 million users are hard to ignore. On the other hand, everyone’s also watched sites like Friendster and MySpace fade over time. So at PubCon, a keynote panel addressed the question of whether social media is relevant or just a passing fad. Coverage of PubCon will continue at WebProNews Videos. Stay with WebProNews for more notes and videos from the … [Read more...]

How does a business owner know what online marketing strategies to choose from? There are seemingly new tactics, new ideas, and new tools coming out every day, and most companies simply don’t have the resources to jump right into every one of them. Decision makers must figure out which ones will work best and be the most cost-effective for their companies. The problem is, that it’s just not easy to figure these things out. How do you … [Read more...]

If the U.S. Army isn’t that strict about what its soldiers can say on social media channels (as long as no lives are on the line), then perhaps you should be a little lenient with your employees too. At least that’s the impression one might get from the National Labor Relations Board, which has accused an ambulance company of illegally firing an employee based on something she said on Facebook. In a recent press release, the Board … [Read more...]

More WebProNews Videos How much information is too much for a soldier in the United States Army to divulge through blogging and social media? Anything that puts other soldiers’ lives at risk. According to the Army’s Chief of Strategic Communications, Lt. Col. André Dean, that’s about it. WebProNews recently sat down with Dean to talk about the social media use of soldiers. “We have since 2007…jumped into social … [Read more...]

More WebProNews Videos PubCon Las Vegas gets started tomorrow (at least content-wise), and promises to deliver  tons of great information about social media marketing, search engine marketing, etc. WebProNews will be covering the event with many exclusive interviews with speakers at the show (see PubCon’s full speaker list here).  At BlogWorld last month, WebProNews sat down with Brett Tabke, CEO of WebmasterWorld, which … [Read more...]