Tag Archives: Social media

What is Your Network Doing?

2010/05/24 • Categories: Social Networks, Videos • by

If you’ve got profiles on multiple social media networks it can be a bit of a hassle to keep up with everybody and their various updates. Gist gives you the ability to link your address book and your contact list on a number of social media sites together with some email applications (It’s particularly powerful [...]

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Build Your Corporate Social Media Strategy

2010/04/06 • Categories: Social Media Strategy • by

Some of the most vehement arguments I hear against social media are from PR and marketing people. They say they don’t trust it because they can’t control what people are saying about them or the spin that may be put on their message once they release it to the webverse. I’m here to tell you [...]

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Groupon-Crowdsourced Coupons

2010/04/04 • Categories: Crowd-Sourcing • by

Image via Wikipedia You may have seen the ads for Groupon on Facebook.The site offers coupons for local businesses by email. “One ridiculously huge coupon each day on the best things to eat, see, do and buy in…(insert your city here)” Not rocket science in itself, but this thing has taken off like a rocket [...]

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Manage Multiple Social Media Accounts with NutShellMail

2010/02/22 • Categories: Videos • by

NutshellMail is at the leading edge of what we expect to be the next wave of innovation in social media. Applications that let you monitor all of your social media networks in one place and give you a summary of your activities. This is especially important for a company that has multiple people engaging through [...]

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A Convincing Argument for Social Media Involvement

2010/02/19 • Categories: Social Media Strategy • by

So you’ve decided social media is a useful way to connect with your customers and spread the word about your business? Cool for you. Now how are you going to convince the CXOs that it’s not just a waste of time? I’d suggest you don’t start with “We HAVE to have a Facebook page” as [...]

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Put Your Social Media Campaign on Auto-pilot

2010/02/15 • Categories: Social Media Strategy • by

If you’re one of my social media coaching clients you’ve likely heard this a few times. Feel free to skip this post or use it as a friendly reminder to engage, engage, engage! If not, read on.

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LinkedIn and Twitter- Cross the Streams

2010/02/11 • Categories: Get Started, LinkedIn, Videos • by

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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Adding images to your WordPress Blog

2010/01/10 • Categories: Advanced, Blogging, Videos, Wordpress • by

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? Click the close button to return to [...]

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Are You Ready for Social Media?

2010/01/06 • Categories: Get Started, Social Media Strategy • by

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 to [...]

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Get Your Social Media Team on Schedule

2010/01/02 • Categories: Get Started, Social Media Strategy • by

As mentioned in the post yesterday on creating a social media schedule you can streamline your social media efforts quite a bit if you just get organized. Once you start to think in schedules and delegate tasks you’ll find life gets a whole lot easier.

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Create a Social Media Schedule

2010/01/01 • Categories: Get Started, Social Media Strategy • by

It’s really easy for social media to take over your life and leave your other business tasks in the dust. One way to deal with this is to simply contain it a little. Start by setting up a regular routine of when you do particular actions and you’ll find you’re more effective. In addition you’ll [...]

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Adding a Gravatar to Your Comments

2009/12/26 • Categories: Forums and Community, General, Videos • by

An avatar is really part of your personal brand, and keeping that brand aligned with your posts on other sites, comments, forums etc. is just as important as it is on your own blog or social media account. It’s very easy to do this using Gravatar, a service that you to use your own avatar [...]

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