Over the weekend, I noticed that my latest photo set (Best of San Francisco) had experienced a huge surge of hits from both Google’s organic search and the San Francisco subreddit. In fact, over a 1,000 people had viewed the photo blog post in just two days, not something that happens everyday, which got me thinking [...]
Those of you who follow my blog know that about a month ago I returned from an eye-opening trip to San Francisco, a city I had been seriously considering relocating to because of my desire to work in social media marketing. The original catalyst for the trip was to meet up with an old friend from [...]
This post is inspired by my friends who have been pestering me lately about what I have been doing on Twitter to have attracted so many new followers in such a short amount of time. While my Twitter account is far from the most popular out there, I have apparently stumbled on to something. What follows [...]
While the social media world is busy clamoring on about Pinterest, aka “digital crack for women” and off debating the merits of leaving Facebook, some of us have been quietly looking for new ways to efficiently increase our SM presence. XeeMe, a relatively new service that launched in August of last year, could be about [...]
In a The Global Guru & The Two Halves exclusive, presenting our set of the best photos from Las Vegas, Nevada. (All photos © TGG & TTH internet publishing properties and their respective owners).
As we kick off the New Year, social media has become an integral part of marketing (see my previous post Social Media Trends for 2011), yet so much more than just another tool used to increase awareness, drive conversion and impact brand equity. Through some research and a lot of introspection about what will be [...]
It’s that time of the year to look back upon the past year’s successes and failures, all with the aim of improving and fine tuning site strategy in the New Year! According to Google Analytics, here’s how The Two Halves performed in 2011: Top 5 Most Popular Posts 1. Top 5 Social Media Trends for [...]
This is part of a special two part series transatlantic blog post about Occupy Wall Street. Come check out my cross-branded blog post on Grega Stritar’s stritar.net. The situation isn’t peachy. The global economic system is collapsing, the middle class is disappearing, and financial institutions have taken control of the fate of many countries and corporations. [...]
What follows are some random musings about the things I will miss most and least about Europe, at the extreme ends of the emotive scale. Top 3 Things I Will Miss the Most: 1. Country Gourmet – there’s just so much good food here. And I’m talking flavorful, vibrant, nutritious, delicious Grade A+ food. In fact, I’d [...]
1. Don’t take it personally All too often, when faced with difficulties in the workplace we take it personally and become defensive – DON’T! You have to know how to separate the professional role you are expected to perform by your co-workers from the private individual that you are, as known and loved by your friends [...]
