2020: The Year of ‘Cancel Culture’

2020: The Year of ‘Cancel Culture’

I think most people can agree that 2020 has been rough. So is it really surprising that the topic of today’s blog post took shape and flourished in the uncertain, alarming, messy, and disappointing hodgepodge that is 2020? I think not.  ‘Cancel Culture’ or “callout...
How to Use Social Media to Advocate for Good

How to Use Social Media to Advocate for Good

Have you wondered how you can control the positivity of your social media posts? Create a goal of delivering good content that helps the common good.  It is an opportunity to showcase your human values of connecting and conversing through social media.  Social media...
Twitter Wants You to Read Before You Retweet

Twitter Wants You to Read Before You Retweet

Twitter is taking a stab at ensuring its users engage in meaningful conversations. “To help promote informed discussion,” Twitter is testing a new feature that will ask users if they really want to retweet a link they haven’t actually taken the time to read...
Are We All Safe Online?

Are We All Safe Online?

Through our partnership with St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, we meet extremely talented MBA students and social media marketing professionals. One of their assignments in our course, (no comma) is to blog on an area of social media that they found most interesting...
Made you Click: The Clickbait Debate

Made you Click: The Clickbait Debate

In December 2006, Jay Geiger wrote a blog post that included a never-before-seen word: clickbait. The logic was simple — click referred to the click of a computer mouse while bait referred to something that lures in online users like a worm might lure in a giant...