From the category archives:

Social Media

Why are the words “Subscribe” and Facebook in the same sentence?

September 21, 2011

On September 15th, Facebook released the “Subscribe” button. This way, one does not have to become a friend in order to keep up with your public updates. If you don’t know about the public updates, click on the link to learn more. Whenever someone posts something using the “Public” status, their subscribers will be able [...]

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I’m steamed and this kettle is about to blow!

September 12, 2011

It’s not often that I pull the angry auntie, or tia, card (depends how you are talking to.) This all started a long time ago, when women weren’t allowed to do certain things. Fast forward to today. At the recent #140edu conference in New York City, Lynn Langit (@llangit) – co-founder of Teaching Kids Programming [...]

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Friday Five+: Top Entrepreneur Blogs and Twitter Users to Follow

August 26, 2011

Happy Friday! This week, we are bringing you 5 top entrepreneur blogs you should read AND 5 top entrepreneur Twitter users you should be following. Top 5 Entrepreneur Blogs to Read (excluding this one, of course!) Mashable: With categories ranging from technology to social good, Mashable is the first blog you should check each day [...]

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How To: Choose a Workspace, Maximize Your ROI, Trend on Twitter, and more

August 22, 2011

Thank you for your patience with our technical difficulties last week! Since we couldn’t bring you a Friday Five, we’re bringing you some of the latest news and information to get your week started right. From selecting a workspace to trending on Twitter, we’ve compiled a short list of useful resources for the enterprising small [...]

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Friday Five: Small Business & Entrepreneur Social Media News from Around the Web

July 29, 2011

Happy Friday! Today we’re bringing you some interesting news related to social media for your small business: Facebook for Business: Finally! A helpful guide from the denizen of social media. Facebook has recently launched its online education center to help businesses in establishing pages and profiles. Earlier this month, Facebook announced it would be partnering [...]

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Does Your Small Business Need Google+?

July 6, 2011

Google’s launch this past week of its own social network, Google+, has the social media sphere in an excited tizzy. So what is Google+? And perhaps more importantly, does the internet (especially your small business) need yet another social network? Tentatively speaking…yes. While Google+ is slowly being rolled out for individuals and has not yet [...]

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Mashable’s 73 Essential Social Media & Tech Tools for Small Businesses

May 16, 2011

The Wild WE loves it when Mashable puts out its weekly round-up of valuable tools and resources for the small business owner. We always find something new to help us be more organized, effective, and successful in our entrepreneurial pursuits. If you haven’t yet checked out this week’s list of 73 essential social media and tech resources, [...]

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Does Your Small Business Have an App for That?

May 3, 2011

At The Wild WE, we love creative marketing solutions for small businesses. One innovative idea that is gaining ground is to create an application for your business. Whether it’s a shortcut to your blog or podcast, or a click-to-buy button, or even a game, having a useful application branded by your business that people can [...]

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5 Effective Ways to Use Twitter with Your Email Campaign

April 28, 2011

If you have an email newsletter, you probably already include links to your small business Twitter and Facebook accounts (and if you don’t, what are you waiting for?!). But there is more you can be doing to leverage social media. Check out these 5 ways to tie in Twitter with your e-mail newsletter. Have any [...]

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Friendster Latest Victim in Social Media War

April 26, 2011

Friendster, which pioneered social media networking and ushered in the era of MySpace and Facebook, has become the latest victim of the social media wars, which finds Facebook dominating the field. All user profiles, photos, and blogs will be deleted as of May 31, 2011 and the site has sent messages to its users advising [...]

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