Tag Archives: Twitter

Do More with Hootsuite for Managing Twitter

Last week we covered some of the basics for how to get started with setting up Hootsuite as a social networking dashboard. As a tool for managing your social networks all in one place, Hootsuite is a web application tool for managing multiple platforms at once. This post will focus on how to monitor keywords [...]

Hootsuite As Your Social Media Command Control Center

When Hootsuite came out it was primarily a Twitter management application. People liked it because you could track multiple Twitter accounts, keywords and schedule tweets all in one place. It still does all that but it also does so much more. Hootsuite has evolved to include management and posting to LinkedIn, Facebook profiles and fan [...]

You’ve Been Re-Tweeted!

Image via CrunchBase Whether you are just starting out on Twitter or have been using Twitter for awhile, you are probably aware that “re-tweeting” on Twitter is not only a common action but it’s a desirable one as it means others have found your messages to be worth passing on to their followers and helps [...]

Taking Social Media Offline

Taking your social media efforts offline is a logical next step, especially if your goal is to create community and evangelists for a club or organization. Having a party, a meet-up, workshops or meetings on a face to face basis both empowers and rewards your loyal following. Some may step forward and want to create [...]

Twitter Background Design Template

Look at custom Twitter backgrounds and you’ll see there are a lot of similarities in what people do. You can only be so creative with a Twitter background because you are slightly limited by the design constraints of the Twitter content layout.

LinkedIn and Twitter- Cross the Streams

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.

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 [...]

Using Twitter Lists Effectively

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 following Twitter lists [...]

Personal and Professional-Keeping the Balance in Social Media

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 [...]

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.

Promoting your Facebook Fan Page

You built a Facebook fan page but the throngs haven’t arrived yet? Not a huge surprise when there are 1.6 million Facebook pages to choose from and over 3.5 billion pieces of content uploaded each week! Here’s how you can grow the traffic to your fan page quickly and keep ‘em coming back. Post exclusive [...]

Get Your Social Media Team on Schedule

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.