social media

Social media can do wonders in pulling people together in support of a common cause. We've seen its impact on helping victims of the Oklahoma tornadoes , the Boston Marathon bombings and other catastrophic events. And for years, music ha…

While we adore Instagram , we still approach the Facebook takeover of Instagram with a healthy dose skepticism. Still, the network only seems to be growing, and the fact that there are so many cool things people are doing with their feed…

If your Facebook page is hardly recognizable now with all those sponsored posts, unfiltered feeds and frankly, status updates from people you don't need to hear from every hour on the hour, then a neat plug-in I just found may be just wh…

Listening to the Hits One station on Sirius Radio in the car may keep me somewhat up with the latest pop hits (even though my kids always know the lyrics before I do), but I still find myself saying "who?" to every new up-and-comer that …

The first time I met Kash Shaikh, he was an enthusiastic PR guru with GoPro and I was his guest, gratefully shivering in the early hours of an Alaska morning to see the Northern Lights. After helping GoPro skyrocket into even greater pop…

For those of you still wondering what the heck to do with Google+, it would seem that now with 250 million users, there is actually a whole lot. Even for regular old people, and not just "social media experts" which really, is the genius…

My Facebook activity has dropped off lately because I realized how much time I was spending on it--but also in part because of the confusing Facebook privacy changes that they seem to be making continually, sometimes unbeknownst to their…

I've been impressed with how innovative American Express has been with Twitter, going back to when they first introduced their Card Sync technology over the holidays that gave cardmembers automatic discounts credit to their account just …

For the last couple of years, New England ad agency Mullen had created the innovative Brand Bowl, a site that collected all the tweets about the Super Bowl commercials, so that you could weigh in on the ads, and find out whether the rest…

Any time I talk to a parent with tweens, the conversation eventually turns to the kinds of technology they are using, which then eventually turns into a Q&A session of me asking about cell phone usage, social media usage, cyber bullying …

I've never been a huge Instagram user, which I guess after recent major changes to the Instagram Terms of Service , isn't a bad thing at all. But I am a fan of good quality photo editing apps, especially when they're free. We have been k…

Q: You keep posting all these awesome must-have apps , but what about for those of us who have Windows phones? I am looking for a photo app. Do you know of any that are worth getting? Right now I just send all my pictures to Facebook, wh…

These days, with contacts in virtual address books, real address books (yes, I still use one), Facebook, LinkedIn, and apps galore, it's getting increasingly essential to find a way to organize your contacts and streamline them in one pl…

Whether you take all your photos right on your smart phone, or you carry your trusty DSLR wherever you go, there are so many photo editing and sharing services now (a must for parents!). Here are our very favorite from this past year. Kr…

After hearing about the new Instagram Terms of Service changes that announced yesterday, so many of you are writing to us asking for an alternative. And while they've updated with an explanation (sort of) on the Instagram blog that's a c…

This morning the announcement by Instagram was made that when you share your Instagram photos via Twitter, they will no longer be properly displayed. Gah. For people like me, who love sharing my Instagram photos on Twitter--and seeing th…

Sharing photos on a trip is a great way for those back home to see you on your exciting travels. But when you're using different social networks throughout your sojourn to broadcast, it can be hard for friends and family to keep up. Rath…

It was kind of fun to log onto Pinterest today and see a message about the new secret boards. In case you haven't checked it out, we've got the scoop plus some fun ideas on what to do with yours. Because unfortunately, they're not unlimi…

If you've been hearing the buzz about Instagram web profiles, we've got the scoop. As you know, there are a plethora of amazing things we have seen done with Instagram , aside from the awesomeness of its photo app, of course. We've featu…

Even though my Facebook news feed is full of Hurricane Sandy Frankenstorm updates today, there are still a ton of political updates that I'd love to remove, at least until Election Day is over. With all due respect to some of my more uh.…

Don't miss an update below - and a chance to win $100 with your design! If you think of all the Facebook photos you've uploaded in the past couple years, it probably amounts to tens, if not hundreds (maybe thousands for avid Facebookers!…

I had one of those moments recently that falls squarely into the category of "modern life." I was looking for a photograph of my kids that I could visualize in my mind, but couldn't remember if it was on my phone camera, camera-camera, i…

Readers of this site will know we all have a thing for juxtapositions of new and old--like vintage train cases reincarnated as gadget charging stations or high tech home phones with retro style. Now we're going way back, with this very a…

I just returned from a fabulous adults-only trip and after looking through my camera roll, realize I was too busy reveling in the sun, surf and eating meals without interruption to take many photos of the splendor. Thankfully, my travel …