Twitter: My Living Breathing Search Engine!
Okay, I’m so excited I just have to write this blog post to share my excitement about one of the many uses of Twitter. Recently I had a nasty meltdown in MS Word 07. See, when my trusty desktop burned out on me last fall, I was forced to pony up for a hot new…
Read MoreI Heart my Facebook and Twitter Communities!
As a raving people-person*, I absolutely adore my online social networks! Okay, the secret is out. Ha! As if it was a secret. *I’m an Extravert on Myers-Briggs, High I on Disc, High Social Contact on Reiss, and Connector in Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. I treated myself to a professional makeover and photoshoot last…
Read MoreFacebook for Business: The Blog Squad Interviews Mari Smith
With sixty-seven million active users, Facebook has significant implications for business owners, marketers, and entrepreneurs. This highly successful online social networking platform continues to grow at a rate of 250,000 per day. That is serious growth! Not only that, more than HALF the active users come back DAILY. And, people spend an average of 20…
Read MoreFriend Requests: Make yourself Visible on Facebook!
I recently saw a comment go by from one of my Twitter friends about how annoyed she gets when people invite her to connect on Facebook, yet they limit her view of their profile. I’m paraphrasing, because the language was a bit stronger! 🙂 In my experience, most Facebook members don’t know how to properly…
Read MoreFree Royalty-Free Music for Audios & Podcasts
I was just putting the finishing touches to a welcome audio earlier today for a big marketing campaign I’m working on, and I needed to find a snippet of royalty-free music for the intro/outro. “Who ya gonna call?!” Twitter, of course. Thanks heaps to these fine folks on Twitter for the suggestions – I thought…
Read MoreTwitter: Fundraising meets microblogging
Today was the first ever Frozen Pea Friday. Through the power of social networking and the highly-addictive (and effective!) micro-blogging platform, Twitter, the community created incredible solidarity to support Susan Reynolds as she underwent surgery for breast cancer today. Such courage. Such support. Blows me away. The idea behind Frozen Pea Friday is to donate…
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