Hey everybody! Cynthia Smoot of Gangway Advertising here with a recap of last night’s SMC meeting!  The Social Media Club of Dallas held it’s monthly meeting at the offices of Buzzshift in Mockingbird Station last night.  The topic? How to Make My Social Media Life Easier? And don’t we all need to know more about... Read More »

Have you been to a networking function or a business conference lately? If you have, chances are you came home with a big stack of business cards. They probably sat on your desk for a few days while you caught up on e-mail and spent time with your kids. Then, at some point, you decided... Read More »

via pdnedu.blogs.com Getty Images severed ties with one of their freelance photographers recently because he submitted a digitally altered photograph for use on their site. Getty supplies most of the nations newspapers, magazines and online sites with images of people and events. It’s the industry’s go-to source for all things happening on the planet. I’m... Read More »

I saw this story today… A British historian will pay damages to rivals who said he defamed them in pseudonymous comments on the amazon.co.uk Web site. In the spring British literary circles were abuzz over a mysterious Amazon commenter who used the handle Historian to trash works by authors like Rachel Polonsky (“dense,” “pretentious”) and... Read More »

Gangway Advertising is what is known as a boutique marketing firm. That’s a nice way to say we are a small group. The employees are me and my husband. Oh, we have lots of partners that make up our staff… but they are like us, freelancers who got tired of working for “The Man” and... Read More »

Yep, I feel this way most days… Posted via email from Gangway... Read More »

My new friend, John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing, wrote a great blog post today titled, “Why Social Media Doesn’t Matter Anymore“. He states, “We don’t need social media tools, social media plans, or social media departments, we need marketing strategies and tactics that are informed by a terribly heightened customer expectation…. offline activity is... Read More »

YouTube and Google have teamed up to offer a fun new program, called Search Stories, that allows you to create your own "search"able videos. Here's mine! Want to know more about me? Search... Read More »

I love Seth Godin.  If you don’t read his blog on a regular basis…. you should. I really liked his post today about “what we get paid for”. I totally agree with his philosophy. Here’s a bit of it: Hardly worth the effort In most fields, there’s an awful lot of work put into the... Read More »

I get questions all the time about Facebook because they change their policies and procedures so often.Have you hidden a Friend or an Application on Facebook and now you’re having second thoughts? Maybe you’d like to start seeing this person’s updates on your News Feed again? Or you want to see stats from your Friends... Read More »