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4 August 2010

WordPress is Fast Becoming WORLD-Press for Websites & Blogs

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WordPress is The Bomb!
You read a lot about WordPress on this WordPress blog and you’ll be reading lots more. I’m convinced that WP is the easiest and best way for most of us to do our online publishing, and so does freelance website designer Todd E. Jones. A blogger and …

10 July 2010

Please Do My Social Media For Me

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“I just need you to set up my blog, and then I’ll do it . . . or maybe you can do my first few posts . . . and a few Tweets; oh, yes, check out who has written on my Facebook Wall and . . . ”

For  those …

3 July 2010

What Should Your FIRST Blog Post Be About?

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I love that question about writing the very first blog post: The thought was mine, as well as that of most of my blogging students.

“I want my blog to be perfect, so I’d better take a whole lot of time to think about it, research it, draft it, write …

25 April 2010

What You Can Do With Your Facebook Friends

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“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 …

9 April 2010

How To Write That First Blog Post on WordPress.com

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Many of my blogging students leave a workshop with all the confidence in the world, i.e., they’ve got a Blog Name and a new theme, and we’ve even put up one post with a photo.

How to start a blog
How to find a free fancy design for your blog

But then they …

14 March 2010

How to Improve Your Linked ROI By Tweaking Your Profile

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How do I love LinkedIn?
Let me count the ways — and share them — so everyone can improve their Return on Time Investment.
This week I’m conducting workshops entitled:

“I’m on LinkedIn . . . Now WHAT?”

Below is a list of what we discussed until time ran out. So …

20 February 2010

Should You Set Up Your Own Blog?

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My most recent blogging workshop gathered together a dozen participants with a wide range of experience and understanding of social media — from some attendees who weren’t quite sure what a blog was to a few people with active, sophisticated websites.
What they all shared, however, was the question about whether …

19 February 2010

Everyone Is Someone’s Customer: Use Social Media to Reach Them, Listen to Them, and Learn from Them

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Too often companies forget the second part of this scenario:
Firms are in business (1) to make profits by offering products and services
(2) to satisfy the unmet needs of their customers.
Too often they are so immersed in organization-centric thinking, that they don’t even realize their products or services may …

9 February 2010

How Many of These Social Media Questions Can You Answer?

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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 …

30 January 2010

Beginner Blogger’s Workshop: What do I blog about?

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Q: Why do you want to blog?

A: Because it’s new and I want to do it.

Q: What do you want to blog about?

A: I don’t know. You tell me.

Blogging is a power strategy for Content Marketing, i.e., communicating about yourself and/or your company to win friends, followers, clients, and customers.
Six …

14 January 2010

How To Choose a Blog to Read

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More than 70% of Web users agree that personal recommendations influence their purchases and selections.
So what better way to find great blogs to read than to LISTEN TO people whom you’ve grown to trust?
Five bloggers who inspire me on my educational journey down Social Media Revolutionary Road
SETH GODIN
Seth Godin is a …

30 December 2009

Three “F’s” to Achieve Your 2010 Goals

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Since I subscribe to the philosophy of “Intention,” my 2010 Predictions Article will be geared to Setting Some Goals and Making Them Happen. Here are three ways to do just that:

Follow a Role Model, who’s also a Friend

Find a Buddy — or Seven

Figure out Answers to the list of Questions …

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