Technology
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 [...]
What to do While I Wait for my iPad?
This time of year is an interesting time for me. My husband and I are celebrating our 22nd anniversary on the 26th of April (today). May 4th is my birthday (48 years) and May 9th is Mother’s day. Within a couple of weeks it is the “trifecta of fun” for me. 22 years of marriage [...]
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 [...]
What’s the buzz about you?
Do you know what is being said about your company? What about your competitors? There is a new website (well it is new for me) called Alert Rank. You can use this tool to monitor keywords of your choice. But it does so much more than monitor: Your multiple alerts can be managed within one [...]
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? [...]
7 Cool iPhone Apps for Business
There are more and more iPhone apps every day. Who can keep up? Here are the top 7 apps that I use for my business. 1. Just the other day, I used the Google Mobile app (application) to search for a website by speaking the name of the company into the phone. It found the [...]
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. [...]
Is Ping Your Thing?
When doing research on blog promotion, I came across a term that had a cool and familiar “ring” to it. The word was “ping.” I’ve seen the same message posted on various websites” “You must ping your blog.” People might be a little confused when they first hear the word “ping.” In the “IT world,” [...]
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