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By Matt Hannaford, Relationship Manager SOPA and PIPA were pieces of legislation that had gained much momentum before running into the wall that is social media and the Internet. Looking to help stop online piracy, the bills sounded great in theory. However, in practice these bills would have taken things a bit too far. To […]

by Strella Social Media staff Amanda Harrison, Marketing Manager: My favorite Christmas memory is putting on our Christmas sweaters and going to Christmas Candy Lane to see Santa. We would always go to Hershey Chocolate World first and get the biggest chocolate bar my parents would allow. Then we would go into Christmas Candy Lane, […]

The following is a guest post by Kathy Snavely (with edits by Matt Hannaford). They've written a summary from Mark Schaefer’s Keynote Address at Social Media at Work, hosted by the Harrisburg Social Media Club on October 19 at the Hilton Harrisburg What a privilege it was for me to watch others figure out how awesome Schaefer […]

“Why should I be on Twitter? No one cares what I’m doing and I don’t care what they are doing.” This is the most common answer for people who aren’t currently using the social media platform when asked about it. That’s the easy  answer, but let’s dig a little deeper into why people give that […]

By Matthew Hannaford, Business Development Manager for Strella Social Media Twitter is a great place to meet people and interact with consumers, friends, co-workers, and colleagues. However, the reason many businesses are on Twitter, and social media as a whole, is ultimately to drive consumers to a product or service. There are countless strategies that […]

 By Matt Hannaford, Business Development Manager  Is social media worth the time? What does a social media manager even do? These are two of the questions that I get when I tell people that I am a social media manager. Here are my answers: More than you can even imagine and it depends on the […]