Welcome To The Social Media Serenity Podcast!

Social Media Serenity PodcastThe Social Media Serenity podcast is a show devoted to social networking in general, though we spend a majority of our time talking about the big networks like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Cliff Ravenscraft and Erik Fisher pursue the most efficient way to use these services to build authentic relationships and build brand awareness in the online community without wasting away countless hours of our lives.

If you like this show, you may also like the Podcast Answer Man, Virtual Assistant Podcast, and Business Tech Weekly podcasts. Of course we invite you to please check out the complete list of our podcasts.

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097 Social Media Serenity – How Cliff Fell In Love With Buffer App – First Thoughts On Google Plus – We Were So Right About MySpace – And More!

July 7, 2011

In this episode of Social Media Serenity, Cliff and Erik discuss the following: How Cliff fell in love with Buffer App – http://BufferApp.com Tweriod is not a Twitter app to predict your wife’s cycle! – http://Tweriod.com Kylie Mac said to check out http://PayWithATweet.com Pay With A Tweet discussed further in Episode 087 of Business Tech [...]

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096 Social Media Serenity – I Would Follow The President On Twitter If It Were Only His Tweets

June 30, 2011

In this episode, Cliff and Erik discuss the following: A cool Buffer App workaround for Twitter.com – http://j.mp/izGM3b New State Law Makes Posting Distressing Images a Crime – http://goo.gl/GHd6e Facebook testing real time ‘What’s happening now’ http://goo.gl/izOMA Twitter goes after Twiter.com cybersquatters – http://goo.gl/Mg00D Social Networking Accounts for 1 of Every 6 Minutes Spent Online [...]

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095 Social Media Serenity – Is This The Beginning of The MySpacification of Facebook?

June 23, 2011

In this episode, Cliff and Erik discuss the following: gpsn.tv community meetup thoughts. Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook? Online Resume’s on LinkedIn Call in your feedback on our voice mail hotline at 859-795-4067. Or use your voice memo application on your iPhone to record feedback or questions. Simply email it to [...]

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094 Social Media Serenity – The Facebook Contract!

June 16, 2011

In this episode Cliff and Erik discuss the following: John Wilkerson’s Facebook Contract Feedback Woman Catches Husband In Murder Plot on Facebook – http://goo.gl/3Dcmb Man Proves he knew his wife was posing as Facebook Teen – http://goo.gl/nKTp0 Internet users now have more and closer friends than those offline http://goo.gl/89Lg4 No Chirp Conference this year, so [...]

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093 Social Media Serenity – Thirteen Percent of Americans Use Twitter

June 9, 2011

In this episode, Cliff and Erik discussed the following: Elsie’s question about using social media In China Fred’s family social media experience. Daniel Lewis’s social gaming covenent. Klout Introduces +K – http://goo.gl/ZQwa0 Send Tweets As You Present With ‘Keynote Tweet’ – http://goo.gl/7JaNi More than 13% of Americans use Twitter – http://goo.gl/e9xfS iOS 5 gets deep [...]

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092 Social Media Serenity – I Feel Dirty When I Officially ReTweet You!

June 2, 2011

In this episode, Cliff and Erik discuss the following: Twitter Buys Tweetdeck http://goo.gl/VkB7r Twitter Lets You See Others Timelines http://goo.gl/c94Uo Change Your Twitter Email Preferences http://goo.gl/2KuI4 Twitter Introduces Follow Button http://goo.gl/pN5ga Twitter Photos and Twitter Search Update http://goo.gl/9DjLp Ashton Kutcher Creates Twitter Client? http://goo.gl/5JIcN Family Relationships And Social Media Call in your feedback on our [...]

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091 Social Media Serenity – Social Media At Live Events

May 26, 2011

In this episode of Social Media Serenity, Cliff and Erik share several Twitter tips from Mashable Connect Attendees. You can find these tips posted at http://goo.gl/2jkx4. The rest of this episode is devoted to the topic of how to use social media tools, like Twitter, without annoying all your followers who are not attending the [...]

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090 Social Media Serenity – Managing Our Snob Appeal

May 19, 2011

In this episode, Cliff and Erik discuss the following: Buffer App for better scheduling tweets – http://j.mp/iwdWwG Linked In IPO set for Thursday – http://goo.gl/DpY1d Episode 57 The Power of LinkedIn – http://goo.gl/AtbCL Winkelvoss’ Try to Take Case to Supreme Court – http://goo.gl/RzmdJ Facebook Launches Non-Profit Resource Center – http://goo.gl/KbWbl Call in your feedback on [...]

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089 Social Media Serenity – Facebook Boots Mark Zuckerburg

May 12, 2011

In this episode, Cliff and Erik discussed the following stories: NYC MEETUP, Monday May 23rd! – http://goo.gl/JR2om Facebook Boots Mark Zuckerburg http://goo.gl/tOjaf Facebook Found Photo Page after Tornado! – http://goo.gl/x6clX Facebook Auto Suggest Friends for Tagging in Status Updates and Comments – http://goo.gl/QqYFU Facebook plans to allow Brands to Claim Community Pages Facebook Sued Over [...]

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088 Social Media Serenity – Cinco De MySpace

May 5, 2011

In this episode of Social Media Serenity, Erik & Cliff discuss the following: Adagio Teas – A Social Network, for Tea? Osama Takedown Sets Twitter Record http://j.mp/mvC3Ua MySpace For Sale: The Bidding Begins (Worth $100 Million?) – http://goo.gl/DNXuG Cliff predicts the comeback of MySpace in the future. Twitter’s TweetDeck Acquisition Announcement May Be Days Away [...]

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087 Social Media Serenity – Log In More Securely With Facebook

April 28, 2011

In this episode, Eirk and Cliff discuss the following: Initial thoughts for Tweetdeck 2.0 for iPhone Is Twitter buying TweetDeck? – http://goo.gl/mLTbr Twitter users rally to save man from committing suicide – http://goo.gl/Seoit Facebook’s app lets you find friends from your phone book – http://goo.gl/xZPNr Judge to Facebook Debt Collector: Stop. Now. – http://goo.gl/85wHd Facebook [...]

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086 Social Media Serenity – Building A Business Vs Personal Brand With Social Media

April 21, 2011

In this episode, Cliff and Erik talk about the following: Are you building your brand for your business or as an individual? http://goo.gl/Q0Llc More ways to switch between your various Facebook Indentities. What is the Pulse application for iOS? More feedback related to Facebook Pages? Should Cliff delete the gspn.tv community fan page for now? [...]

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085 Social Media Serenity – The Importance of Opt In

April 14, 2011

In this episode, Erik and Cliff covered a wide range of topics. Wouldn’t it be nice to choose your own Facebook Thumbnails? Erik’s trying to test out the new Tweetbox iOS app. Cliff launches new YouTube at http://YouTube.com/PodcastAnswerMan Google +1 http://goo.gl/3jgYd Mitt Romney announces Presidential Campaign on YouTube http://goo.gl/l6eSb Please Don’t Do This On Facebook: [...]

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084 Social Media Serenity – Angry With Facebook – Happy With Chipotle

April 7, 2011

In this episode of Social Media Serenity, Cliff and Erik talk about the frustrations that they are experience with Facebook Pages. Cliff had recently done a blog post about his recent experience on this blog at http://goo.gl/nxxQP. Last week, Facebook announced that they were making it possible for Businesses that started as a Profile to [...]

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083 Social Media Serenity – A Social Media Manager Job Description And @ChipotleTweets

March 31, 2011

In this episode of Social Media Serenity we go over Erik’s new job description as Social Media Manager for Indiana Wesleyan University. We hope that this episode inspires many of the folks who are within the gspn.tv community who are quite familiar with the social media space to consider how they might create a new [...]

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082 Social Media Serenity – Do You Want Your Facebook Friends To See Your Netflix Queue?

March 24, 2011

In this episode, Cliff and Erik cover the following topics: Google Circles – Possibly A Prank Social Network – http://goo.gl/5hiTh Netflix Testing out New Facebook Integration – http://goo.gl/OcFm3 Spammers Using “Sign In As Page” To Facebook Spam – http://goo.gl/ynzYM Only 58% of Tweets Come From Official Twitter Apps – http://goo.gl/1RndU Twitter Clamps Down On Third-Party [...]

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081 Social Media Serenity – Group Messaging Uses And Social Analytics

March 17, 2011

In this of Social Media Serenity, Cliff and Erik discuss the following topics: Group messaging Linked In Today – http://goo.gl/QkNtY The Daily News App for the iPad Hootsuite Social Analytics – http://goo.gl/iJwA7 Woopra – http://woopra.com Would you rent and watch a movie on Facebook? – http://goo.gl/wtaB1 Facebook @ Tagging now extended to Comments – http://goo.gl/6ojrB [...]

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080 Social Media Serenity – Your Shared Life In A Timeline – Group Texting – And More!

March 10, 2011

In this episode, Cliff and Erik actually spend more time talking other services than they did about Facebook and Twitter. MemoLane.com is a site that allows you to show all the things you share online in a timeline fashion. It’s easier to show you than it is to explain. To see an example, check out [...]

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079 Social Media Serenity – Location Based Photo Sharing Concerns

March 4, 2011

This week on Social Media Serenity many of the topics relate to Facebook. First Facebook announces in a January 14 blog post, that they will continue to share personal information such as cell phone numbers and addresses with third parties if their users (unwittingly) allow them to do so in their settings. Link to this [...]

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078 Social Media Serenity – Our Thoughts On Paper.li And So Much More!

February 24, 2011

In this episode, Cliff and Erik cover the following topics: Erik’s new position at work. The problem with http://paper.li – http://goo.gl/SwaUy Check out http://OldSpiceVoicemail.com Facebook Fan Pages will now send you email notifications of comments. Facebook Pages list of other new features: http://goo.gl/tEkXP Twitter wants to know what you aren’t using #NewTwitter: http://goo.gl/wIiPr Google Search [...]

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077 Social Media Serenity – They Also Sell Lingerie

February 10, 2011

In this episode, Cliff and Erik discuss the following topics: PostPost.com Lets You Read Facebook Feed in Newspaper Format http://goo.gl/rlQ5s Facebook & Amazon.com Integration http://goo.gl/6lj89 Mark Zuckerberg Stalker http://goo.gl/vTuvZ Employee Fired Over Facebook Settles Lawsuit http://goo.gl/3M111 Delivering Happiness Book about Zapos – http://amzn.to/gRFFG9 Michelle Obama Doesn’t Want Her Kids On Facebook http://goo.gl/TsKfF Mashable Creates Mashable [...]

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076 Social Media Serenity – Taco Bell Fails To Make Video Go Viral

February 3, 2011

In this episode, Cliff and Erik discuss the following topics: Linked In Files To Go Public – http://goo.gl/hcNKn Taco Bell Uses Social Media To Ward Off PR Crisis – http://goo.gl/ihDk0 Twitter imposes a limit on the number of people you can follow – http://goo.gl/be5LK I get more help from questions asked on Facebook. Think it’s [...]

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