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If you cannot get into Twitter – Hootsuite just might change your mind!
So many people say “I do not get Twitter. Why do I care what someone had for lunch?” Once you get to know Twitter, it is so much more than that. When I first started using Twitter (in 2008) I must admit, I did not get it either. It was just a big stream of [...]
Twitter – How to find targeted followers
You are using Twitter! Great! You post some cool articles. Your titles are original and your topics are thought provoking. So what’s the problem? No one is seeing your posts. You have 24 followers (one is your Mom and four of your friends are there also). You would like more followers, but how do you [...]
Foursquare Rules! Facebook Places Drools!
In the social media world, things change constantly. New options are added, old moldy features are removed and new tools are created – DAILY! So if you don’t like change, do not become a social media specialist. One of the social media tools that I have been using since January of 2010 is Foursquare. At [...]
Tribe Social Deck’s Social Fan Experience
It all started with an idea. I had wanted to have a cool event for my birthday. A friend and I were considering venues. We wanted the event to be somewhat of a Tweet Up where we could meet up with our social media friends. We considered one location on the west side, but people [...]
How to Sell Social Media
You can keep an eye on your brand. If there is old unflattering news on the search engines about your company, you can upload new positive info at the top of the search engines. You can also see what people are saying and get to the root of a problem that you might not even [...]
Top 10 Questions from blogger wannabes
So many people have questions about blogging. These are the top 10 questions about blogging that I hear: What is a blog? Why should I have a blog? What blogging software should I use? What should I write about? What should I not write about? What if no one reads it? How often should I [...]
What if people were ranked like websites?
Google came up with a way to rank websites based on a complicated algorithm. According to the Wikipedia, it assigns a numerical factor with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance. What if we were assigned a number of our importance in the world, based on a complicated algorithm. What would the the criteria be? [...]
Twitter Rocks for Breaking News
I was sad to hear the news about the latest celebrity to pass on: Michael Jackon. Why do celebrities die in three’s? That is certainly a mystery. Here is a great blog about this topic from the Hutch Report if you are interested: http://mhutch.blogspot.com/2009/06/do-celebrities-die-in-threes.html First we heard about Ed McMahon – not a real surpise he [...]
Twitter and Facebook for business – What to Post?
Businesses love Twitter and Facebook. But what should you post? There are many articles on the subject and they all give different advice. One thing that they all agree on: do not just sell on social media sites. If you sell shiny apples: tell us how you get your seeds, tell us how you harvest your apples, educate us on what are [...]
Technology: Serving Up Our Knick Knacks.
Back in the day, my mother would collect knick knacks. She would move them around, dust them and occasionally wash them. People would give them to her as a gift. If we went to a craft fair or a garage sale she would look for more. They did not cost much. It made her happy. [...]