[podcast]http://thekencook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/movember.mp3[/podcast] Image via Wikipedia November is now Movember thanks to Adam Garrone and his partners world wide. Adam is one of the founders and the CEO of Movember.com and was our guest recently on Social Media Edge. One of our regulars and my good friend Mike Mueller is really heading the...

There are actually two Halloween badges for Foursquare. Want to know how to get them? I thought you may … To get the Spooky Swarm badge will need to checkin to a location that 50 or more others have checked into during the last three hours.  This is a special swarm badge that is only available to be unlocked over the Halloween weekend.  October 29 through...

You’ve seen it if you’re on Twitter and you follow a few dozen people. It’s a “newspaper” created from tweets: So, for example, if I create a paper.li of @thekencook nearly 13,000 people will contribute to that “paper”. Definitely a little overkill even for people who follow only a few hundred people. paper.li This one...

Image via Wikipedia First you may want to know why anyone may follow someone to begin with. As for me if I see an interesting tweet about a subject I am interested in I may follow that person. Occasionally I follow people who have participated in a Twitter chat session with me thinking we may engage later. More often I will search on a subject, hashtag or...

Several friends have asked how to remove and block the app on Facebook called “Commit to Vote”. It seems they are a little offended that Organizing For America may have access to their friends list. Whatever the reason, here is how to block any Facebook app from posting to your Facebook wall. Find the link to the application immediately following the...