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Whoa. THAT is a mouthful. As many of you might have known we had our second ever user generated contest this past month to help promote the Great American Smokeout. The Great American Smokeout was inaugurated in 1976 to inspire and encourage smokers to quit for one day. Now, 39.8 percent of the 43.4 million Americans who smoke have attempted ...

It’s simple really. You get on Facebook. You create a page about something you love. From the non-profit you work for to the House you are trying to sell. Then you invite people to become fans.  Once they do you have a ton of options and you can get detailed, google analytic type stats from those pages.  See below as ...

The kick-ass folks over at Facebook Causes have really pulled off something special this last week.  In  just under 5 days, 1,745,754 people sent out 4,919,071 status messages on Facebook.  What does this mean you ask? It means that on the social network Facebook people have the option to set their statuses. It could be anything from a link to ...

I had the pleasure of presenting today at the “PR Bootcamp 2.0” conference put on by the Texas Public Relations Association. The standout speakers of the day to me were the folks from the city of Round Rock (@roundrocknews) and Robert Quigley from the Statesman.com (@statesman). They are both doing some amazing things in areas (old media and city govt) ...