Step Ahead: Social Media, Internet Marketing, and Public Relations
At Step Ahead, we take the power of traditional public relations and pair it with creative social media campaigns and Internet marketing to maximize visibility for our clients both online and off.Facebook Places Is Here!
What were you doing last Wednesday night? Well, if you’re a social media geek like the folks at Step Ahead Inc., you may have been watching the Facebook Places announcement on Facebook Live. That’s right, the long awaited geo-location tool from Facebook is now live throughout the United States. Facebook will roll out Places to the rest of the world soon. So, what is Places? It’s a geo-location tool that’s similar to Foursquare and Gowalla. Places allows Facebook users to update their status and tag friends via their smart phone while updating their location as well. Facebook released an updated version of the ...
August Social Media Star: Ryan Johnson
Say goodbye to the days of wondering what your local government is up to and hello to a more social and Internet-savvy group of officials. Ryan Johnson, the public information assistant to the mayor of North Charleston, Keith Summey, is using social media to not only provide information to residents, but to also quickly and easily receive and respond to questions or input from the citizens of North Charleston. Johnson credits social media with helping him to provide a more open and accessible government. The City of North Charleston is a rare municipality that is truly up to date with social media, ...
Orwell vs Social Media
"Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug." George Orwell - Politics and the English Language (Opening a blog post with an Orwell quote? Pretentious, moi?! Well, I suppose, perhaps, but stick with me, there's some swearing coming up.) I'm not a ...
July Social Media Star: Misty Lackie
These days, companies of all sizes are diving into the world of social media, and Misty Lackie, CEO of Go Smart Solutions, LLC, is making it easier and more affordable than ever for small businesses and individuals to create and customize their social media "brand". Misty started Twitbacks.com, a tool that helps create free and affordable custom Twitter backgrounds. Twitbacks.com is a huge success and has been featured in BusinessWeek, CNET and PCWorld. Misty has been involved with social media for years, and learned early on how valuable social media can be. Currently she sees how powerful and valuable Facebook is for businesses and has created FaceItPages, a ...
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Facebook Places Is Here!
What were you doing last Wednesday night? Well, if you’re a social media geek like the folks at Step Ahead Inc., you may have been watching the Facebook Places announcement on Facebook Live. That’s right, the long awaited geo-location tool from Facebook is now live throughout the United States. Facebook will roll out Places to the rest of the world... [Read more of this post]
August Social Media Star: Ryan Johnson
Say goodbye to the days of wondering what your local government is up to and hello to a more social and Internet-savvy group of officials. Ryan Johnson, the public information assistant to the mayor of North Charleston, Keith Summey, is using social media to not only provide information to residents, but to also quickly and easily receive and respond... [Read more of this post]
Orwell vs Social Media
“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.” George Orwell –... [Read more of this post]
July Social Media Star: Misty Lackie
These days, companies of all sizes are diving into the world of social media, and Misty Lackie, CEO of Go Smart Solutions, LLC, is making it easier and more affordable than ever for small businesses and individuals to create and customize their social media “brand”. Misty started Twitbacks.com, a tool that helps create free and affordable... [Read more of this post]
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