I am where I am in life because of a phone call I made to a radio station in 1996. Let me explain. In the summer of 1996, I was living in my hometown of Erie, PA. I hadn’t gone to college yet — hadn’t even gotten a GED yet, Read more…
In a rare move that gives Facebook users more control over their experience, you now have a way to make sure you see posts from the people and pages you like best. Just go to a person’s profile and click or hover on the “Following” button, and you’ll see a Read more…
I never advertised on Twitter before. But I have a new business that I wanted to promote, so I thought I’d give it a try. Here’s what went wrong. Where Is the Twitter Advertising Link? Oh, right. Way down there. Sure, that makes sense. Okay, so we click that, and Read more…
Want to have a better day? Do any of these things. 1. Unfollow someone on Facebook. Who brings your Facebook experience down? Is it your racist uncle, your histrionic coworker, or that rando you haven’t talked to since high school who complains nonstop and makes every day feel like it’s Read more…
With only 4 days left in The 100 Day Project — a call to action for artists of all types — here are 10 awesome Instagram accounts I never would have found otherwise. Elle Luna (elleluna) elleluna is the originator of the project. Mary Kate McDevitt (marykatemcdevitt) marykatemcdevitt has been Read more…
A few years ago, a data scientist had a problem. He’d been conducting experiments on human behavior for years, hoping to find the answer to a question that had stumped scientists the world over. So far, every experiment had predictable results… except one. No matter how many times he repeated Read more…
I favorite a lot of things on Twitter — over 9,000 tweets and counting — but I rarely go back to revisit them. I always feel like I should, though. So this month I decided to look back through the hundreds of tweets I faved in June and make a Read more…
How many of your ideas have been overnight successes? Oh. Sorry to hear that. But hey, don’t give up. You might just be on a lifetime odyssey toward unimaginable success. You just have to get there. Instant Karma Is Probably Not Going to Get You Maybe you’ve heard the story Read more…
In 2009, I was one of three people invited to teach the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette how to use Twitter. At the end of that session — in a room filled with skeptical reporters who seemed sure that Twitter was either useless, the devil, or both — we offered to help anyone Read more…
I asked this question on Twitter back in 2010 and again in 2015. Both times, the answers were the same: interesting won, by far. And when I asked how people would like their online presence to be described, “Interesting” was their top answer then, too. This is actually kind of Read more…