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JD Rucker

  • JD Rucker is Editor at Soshable, a Social Media Marketing Blog. He is a Christian, a husband, a father, and founder of both Judeo Christian Church and Dealer Authority. He drinks a lot of coffee, usually in the form of a 5-shot espresso over ice. Find him on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

   

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587 Stories by JD Rucker

An extremely long but exceptionally useful social media dimensions infographic

Some infographics are long for the sake of being long. They take up way too much space to make very few points or to...
June 16, 2013 1 45 sec read

Understand the basics of #socialmedia posts on each network

In my recent exploration of various social media profiles being used by local businesses, I found a disturbing trend. While there are definitely those...
June 13, 2013 0 37 sec read

Playing to tomorrow’s customers on social media helps decision makers today

A father and son walked onto a car lot and started looking around. As the salesperson approached, the son, 14- or 15-years old, was...
June 11, 2013 0 2 min read

Is NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden a patriot or a traitor?

Now that Edward Snowden has come forward as the source of the NSA leaks, much of the attention in Washington and the media will...
June 9, 2013 7 2 min read

How social media made a kinder, gentler automotive industry

People in the car business have been the focus of more jokes about dishonesty and greed than any other professionals outside of lawyers and...
June 3, 2013 0 2 min read

Is social media privacy breached if it’s software that’s listening in?

Facebook and other social networks are employing keyword-sniffing programs that monitor our private communications such as chats and direct messages. When a potential criminal...
May 21, 2013 2 2 min read

Avoid Star Trek spoilers at all costs

There hasn’t been a movie since The Sixth Sense that had more potential for disaster than Star Trek: Into Darkness. No, Spock doesn’t see...
May 19, 2013 0 1 min read

Content Flow from Creation to Tweet

If there’s one major flaw with the way that many businesses use automation tools, it’s that they’re not able to properly control the flow...
May 18, 2013 0 3 min read

Yahoo MUST buy Tumblr and then do nothing to it

There are two stages to this gambit by Yahoo that must be accomplished. They have to beat out Facebook, Microsoft, and anybody else interested...
May 17, 2013 0 1 min read

Modern search marketing is more art, less science with Penguin 2.0

There are two frames of mind amongst search marketing professionals when it comes to major updates such as the Google Penguin update last year...
May 16, 2013 1 1 min read

The Google+ redesign is Pinterestesque (with a little Facebook sprinkled on top)

Google’s first big change from the Google I/O conference The new responsive design of Google+ has been rolled out to a limited set of...
May 15, 2013 0 37 sec read

Apply local flair to your Facebook promotional posts

Facebook has been a challenging venue for marketers and advertisers ever since it started really getting popular in 2009. At that time, it was...
May 11, 2013 1 1 min read

Behind Israel’s Iron Dome technology

As tensions continue to rise in the Middle East and particularly at the Syrian/Israeli border, the Iron Dome is back in the news. Israel...
May 6, 2013 0 3 min read

Businesses need seven social accounts, not dozens, hundreds, or thousands

In the early days of search engine optimization, the pitch that many companies used was very appealing. “We’ll get you listed on thousands of...
May 2, 2013 2 3 min read

CISPA is dead but cybersecurity legislation will rear its ugly head again

There’s a rush going on in Washington DC right now. It has been going on for over 2 years now and will continue until...
April 25, 2013 0 1 min read

Why your posts are seen (or go unseen) on Facebook news feeds

EdgeRank. It’s a mythical beast in many ways, not because it isn’t real but because it is very misunderstood by many. It’s one of...
April 25, 2013 0 53 sec read

The slippery slope of Rand Paul’s opinion on the use of drone technology

Military technology has advanced in recent years to the point that many domestic law enforcement agencies and politicians are promoting the concept of using...
April 23, 2013 0 1 min read

If you’re not afraid of #CISPA, you’re not really paying attention

SOPA was a black eye for the US government. Nothing in the last few decades can compare to the complete turnaround Washington DC had...
April 21, 2013 1 2 min read
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