Barry's Blog

Our team at SocialMediaSystems is happy that as of Sunday night, RISmedia.com is on a new platform that is completely leveraging a huge amount of search power through its thousands of articles. A lot of people don't understand exactly what large scale search strategy plans entail, but RISmedia's ...

There is a great article over on Mashable.com at The Analytics Toolbox: http://mashable.com/2007/06/25/analytics-toolbox  It covers 50+ ways to track and analyze different statistics, usage patterns, visitor behaviors, and a variety of other things about people browsing your site. Anyone who has ...

I just wanted to come by and say hello to all my ActiveRain contacts and friends. Things have been moving along remarkably well at SocialMediaSystems and have been keeping me busy, busy, busy. We have rolled out several new features into our products, as well as having made hundreds of contacts i...

So I was quiet for a while on ActiveRain, I had a lot of stuff to be working on the past month or so now that our team at SocialMediaSystems.com has our latest product done- I can actually talk about it. It took a team of full-fledge marketing geeks and development nerds to create. Now we have a ...

How anonymity destroys the very nature of community. . One of the proud things that led me to blogging is that it allows a forum to share my voice and opinion with the world. With over a decade of experience communicating online through various e-mails, bulletin boards, forums, and blogs… there h...

LinkedIn is a huge network of millions of professionals. They range from IT professionals and corporate CEOs, to urban bakery professionals and auto mechanics. By using search tools and filtering options, you can find people from nearly all of the Fortune 1000 as well as your friendly neighbor d...

  People often inquire with me whether or not I have the ability to do X or Y. Sometimes I tell them I don’t do either, and that my specific specialty is Z. They look at me perplexed and usually say “But isn’t Y almost the same as Z?” and my response is “Yes it is, “almost”. But it is different. ...

One of the objections I often hear from people is “I don’t have time to network online!" Do you have time to… Professionally NetworkFind a new friendShare your ideasBuild your businessMarket yourselfDe-stress? What about… Elevate yourself as an industry expertEstablish connections in other indust...

A lot of people ask me how to go about establishing an online network. Whether they need it for a new job or to help establish business prospects, realizing the value of your social interactions is essential. Through networking, you can discover that brief contact with an informative and friendl...

I almost have to laugh, because I had written this article last week while traveling and today it seems more appropriate then ever. When confronted by the numerous times I've encountered various mindsets of individuals on multiple boards, forums, wikis, communities, and blogs - how does one go ab...