Facebook,Facebook Basics,Guest Post         12 comments

Karen Clark is as charming as her smile, and I have learned a great deal from her as we both travel along Social Media Revolutionary Road.
One day Karen’s photo appeared prominently on my Facebook profile page, and the next day I met her face-to-face at a get-together for the speakers …

 Facebook,Facebook Basics,Getting Started,Social Media Basics         7 comments

“Facebook Follies” can be avoided when you know what you’re doing with your FB Friends.
At a recent workshop for Newbies, we began chatting about Facebook Do’s and Don’ts and then more basic questions like “Why is the Wall called the Wall?” and “How do you make sense of everything that …

 Facebook,Facebook Basics,Featured,Social Media Basics,Social Media Marketing,Social Media Strategy         17 comments

When I heard the title “The zen of social media marketing,” I knew I had to read this book by Shama Hyder Kabani.  Her chapter on Facebook was really detailed with lots of tips, so I thought I’d offer many of the items on Shama’s list of Do’s and Don’ts …

 Facebook,Featured,LinkedIn,Social Media Marketing         4 comments

Bay Area Consultants hear SOCIAL MEDIA TIPS from popular speaker Patrick Schwerdtfeger
Back by popular request, Patrick presented more detailed online marketing tactics — building from his earlier talk on social media basics delivered last fall.
Author of Webify Your Business, Patrick spoke at 127 events around the globe in 2009. He …

 Blogging,Facebook,Getting Started,LinkedIn,Sharisax Is Out There,Social Media Basics,Social Media Strategy,Twitter         28 comments

My Laney College students are participating in social media to build writing and reading skills. For many of them, however, this is a significantly new experience, i.e., creating blogs and signing up for Twitter.

What is Social Media and why is it important?

and . . . here are many of their …

 Best of 2009,Blogging,Facebook,Getting Started,LinkedIn,Social Media Strategy,Twitter         8 comments

CHART YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PROGRESS:
Want to manage your social media sites? Yesterday’s post reviewed Chris Brogan‘s 19 tips: Resolve to Manage your Online Presence.
Today you’ll find a handy spreadsheet to use for weekly check-offs. And there’s space to add other tasks . . .  like writing your blog post

Now …

 Best of 2009,Blogging,Facebook,Getting Started,Social Media Basics,Twitter         14 comments

“Social Media: Step-by-step”

The End of The Year is made for reflection, clean up, and planning for the future.
Six months ago, social media luminary Chris Brogan published 19 tips to manage your SM online  presence.
And I most likely did what a lot of my friends might have done, i.e. …

 Blogging,Book review,Facebook,Getting Started,LinkedIn,Social Media Basics,Social Media Marketing         No comments

You’ve got to be more than a Social Media Newbie to appreciate the depth and breadth of research that went into compiling the 334-page compendium The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web.
Author Tamar Weinberg is a community manager for Mashable, clearly the best source for Social Media …

 Facebook,Getting Started,LinkedIn,Social Media Basics,Social Media Strategy,Twitter         7 comments

It almost doesn’t make a difference where you are on the Social Media learning curve, there’s always more to discover and integrate into your strategy . . . even if you are just getting started.
"I am always doing that which I do not know how to do in order …

 Best of 2009,Facebook,Getting Started,Interview,Personal Branding,Sharisax Is Out There,Social Media Strategy         10 comments

“To be or not to be . . .”
“To DO, or NOT to do . . .”

I got a “dressing down” the other day when I asked a question on various social media platforms.
This was my message:
“ARE PRESS RELEASES DEAD?  I would like to publish an article …

 Facebook,Getting Started,Personal Branding,Sharisax Is Out There,Social Media Marketing         3 comments

Twitter is like my personal bookstore, but so is most of Web 2.0
photos by Howard Blum
Sharing is one of the amazing benefits of Web 2.0, so it’s no wonder that Twitter is so important to me — both as a source and a repository. Here are some of the …

 Blogging,Facebook,Personal Branding         10 comments

Just over six months ago [in April 2009], I wrote my first blog post with the announced intention to aim for “A-List status.”
Four months later I wrote an article about the “day I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven” — it was actually a report of a panel …