Ja Rule heads to prison; plenty of time for Social Media, Hootsuite
Social Media Marketing
We couldn’t help but notice a couple things yesterday.
- Fat Joe is no longer fat
- Ja Rule is no longer free
We’re happy to see that Fat Joe or Joey Crack won’t be choking on a cheeseburger any time soon, but we can’t help feeling nostalgic over the shed pounds we came to love during our childhood.
Formerly Fat Joe used to team up with Ja Rule, who won’t be teaming up with anyone for the next to years.
Ja Rule turned himself in Wednesday to begin serving two years in New York state prison stemming from a weapons-related arrest in 2007. The sentence came down after the rapper, real name Jeffrey Atkins, entered a guilty plea in December on attempted criminal possession of a weapon.
This isn’t the first time Atkins has been in trouble with the law, having passed on paying taxes a few times during the 2000s.
The IRS would obviously take issue with his song “Always on Time.”
We decided to do a little snooping into Ja’s Social Media presence and found that the rapper has a fairly active Twitter account (@RULEYORK and a very inactive Facebook account.
Maybe he just doesn’t have time for both.
But now that Ja has some downtime, we thought he might want to take a renewed look at his Social Media efforts, and one tool that would help him maximize his time is Hootsuite.
We’re not sure how if he’s allowed to watch video in the clink, but we put together these on getting up and running with Hootsuite so he can start using his time effectively.
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About Cody Swann
Cody Swann is an entrepreneur, developer, strategist, banged up ex-football walk-on, retired body builder and former journalist born and raised in South Florida. He currently splits his time between his hometown of Stuart, FL and Los Angeles, CA. Cody founded Gunner Technology, a highly sought after digital agency, specializing in helping companies maximize profits through custom web development, technology efficiencies, social media strategy and search engine marketing.
As a manager and developer at ESPN for nearly six years, Cody led development and vision for two of ESPN’s most popular online features: Sports Scoreboards and GameCasts. Additionally Cody oversaw all aspects of MyESPN and ESPN’s social network, ESPN Fan Profiles. Cody worked with Technology, Editorial, Sales, Marketing and relevant business stakeholders to mold ESPN’s social media strategy, develop custom applications for it and execute it. Under his direction, ESPN successfully ported large portions of its core product from a proprietary Java stack to an open source Ruby on Rails stack, capable of standing up and performing under the tremendous load world's most popular sports site delivers.
Cody began forging his technological knowledge more than 10 years ago, developing and designing websites in college. His development work has included web development, web design, content writing, digital photography and digital video production for award-winning sites like Gainesville.com, GatorSports.com and ESPN.com. He has helped set digital strategy and direction for companies in the New York Times Regional Newspaper group, ESPN, ABC and Disney.
He is a recognized expert in web development, social media strategy, search engine optimization, conversion optimization, analytics tracking and business planning. He has worked with large interactive media companies to small and medium sized businesses. Cody motivates and inspires creative teams to deliver superb, polished work under tight deadlines.