On comments and Brevity

Blog and forum commenting

Have you ever been reading a blog post and scrolled down to make a comment only to find a loooong comment that’s basically a blog post in itself? Did you add your own comment or did you decide it had all been covered? Sometimes you’ve got to leave room for other [...]

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LinkedIn and Twitter- Cross the Streams

LinkedIn and Twitter

Twitter posts can easily be fed into your LinkedIn profile. Share links to events or information your LinkedIn connections can use and appreciate. Don’t over-do it though. Here’s a short clip on how to integrate Twitter on your LinkedIn profile.

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Facebook Adds a New Image Option

Facebook Image Uploader

Facebook is one of the largest photo-sharing sites with something like 2.5 Billion photos uploaded per month! Up to date however the upload process and organizing your photos has been a somewhat painful experience. Any day now you should start seeing Facebook’s new photo uploader plugin when you upload images. The plug-in is being phased [...]

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Automated Blogging – Answer to Building Traffic?

Making millions with auto blog posts. NOT

Whenever you do a search for tips and tricks to build traffic to your blog you’ll find lots of resources offering to help you build traffic by auto-generating comments on other blogs with a link to your domain in the profile. You’ll also find loads of tools that can help you start multiple [...]

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FourSquare for Small Business

Foursquare for small business

Augmented reality games like FourSquare are all the rage right now and the most popular of these (over 300,000 users last count) is called FourSquare. Before I dive into how this game can help you in your business let me give you a quick overview of what “augmented reality” is. Augmented reality refers to a [...]

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Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn profile management

LinkedIn added a new feature today that can really help you focus on your strengths in your profile. The new change allows you to drag and drop sections of your profile and arrange it in the order you’d like people to see it. Here’s a quick video from the team at LinkedIn.

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How to Use Tags in Your Blog for Better Search Engine Optimization

Use tags in Blogs

You may already know what tags are, but even if you do you may not be using them to your best advantage. Here are a few tips to yous tags  in your blog to get you even better search engine optimization. The basics Tags are one word descriptions of all or [...]

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Using Twitter Lists Effectively

Twitter lists

Twitter lists came out a few months ago to much fan-fare and everybody rushed to “curate” their own lists of Twitter followers. There was a flurry of posts about people mass un-following and following a list of people related to their area of interest instead. I’m not a big advocate of just [...]

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Facebook Post Insights

Facebook Fan Page Administration

According to a presentation recently leaked by Polish agency ARBO Interactive, Facebook is about to launch a new opportunity for Facebook page administrators to learn more about the posts on their pages. You’ll be able to see data on page impressions and what percentage of impressions resulted in actions like clicks, comments or likes. [...]

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8 Steps to Make Your Wordpress Blog Safer From Hackers

Wordpress Security

First off, notice I said safer, not safe. Hackers enjoy this kind of challenge and it’s pretty hard to guarantee the safety of a blog. That’s why the first thing in the list is: Regular backups Backup your database and your theme regularly. Even if you don’t get hacked your server [...]

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Adding images to your Wordpress Blog

using images in blog posts

Adding images to your blog posts can make them more interesting visually, drive home a point or set the mood to go with the post, but it’s not always so easy to find the right image, and who wants to pay for stock images every time you post?

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Personal and Professional-Keeping the Balance in Social Media

Social Media Strategy

Social media is… well, social. So you want to have some personal flavor to your various posts and profiles online. People connect socially to another person not a robot or an admin pretending to be you. That said, you probably don’t want your personal details all over the web for any number of reasons. So [...]

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Tungle – Collaborative Scheduling App

Tungle collaborative calendaring

When you’re trying to schedule a meeting and you get the dreaded question “what times are good for you?” here’s your answer. Sync your calendars with Tungle, invite others to pick a time that works for them and problem solved. Want to schedule a coaching session or meeting with Janet Fouts? Use Tungle.me/jfouts link to [...]

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HootSuite and Wordpress?

Hootsuite and Wordpress

If you’re a fan of the popular Twitter dashboard Hootsuite you’re going to be really excited about their latest news. Check it out.

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Are You Ready for Social Media?

Planning your social media strategy

Image via Wikipedia

Sure, social media platforms make it easy to dive in and just start talking and that’s one of it’s biggest benefits. It’s also a potential downside. How many times have you seen somebody in over their head in a social media conversation? They get a flood of questions they aren’t ready [...]

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Complying With Facebook’s New Promotion Rules

Promoting your facebook fan page

Facebook recently implemented new rules that strictly control how you can promote your Facebook page–even off the Facebook site itself– and if you’d like to keep your account in good standing you’d best be paying attention. Using the Facebook brand You can in no way imply partnership endorsement or sponsorship without [...]

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