Tips for Net Etiquette

Sometimes, the Tweet can be mightier than the sword.  Or, even worse, your Tweets can get you into trouble.  For example, celebrities like Courtney Love were recently sued for libel for comments she made.  Though most of us won’t have to suffer through these...

6 New LinkedIn Updates

Before discussing the new, exciting changes coming from LinkedIn, let’s define what LinkedIn is: LinkedIn is really a huge database of professionals.  Unlike other social networks, like Twitter, which lacks profile depth, or Facebook, which is all over the place...

LinkedIn Announces New Platform

    LinkedIn announces new platform Wednesday for its business-focused social networking site.  LinkedIn’s new platform will offer websites and developers easy tools to embed LinkedIn “recommend” buttons, company-profile boxes and contact widgets on...

Facebook Shutdown Scam!

Oh those Facebook scammers are at it again.  Huffingtonpost.com reports yet another scam, called the Facebook Shutdown Scam in an attempt to have hackers plant an application on your Facebook page that will allow them to go to take surveys on their behalf and make...

What is Social Media Journalism?

  What is social media journalism?Social media journalism is casting its web throughout the Internet, gaining popularity on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.  Social media journalism is simply broadcasting newsworthy topics and articles...

Facebook Fan Page Migration Disaster

Recently, Black Box Social Media published instructions on how to convert a personal Facebook page to a Fan page, and boy are we sorry we did that.  Turns out that Facebook’s Fan page migration tool was not working property, and as such, has created a Facebook...