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What to Tweet So Your Company Becomes a Brand All-Star
“What to Tweet” articles have been among the most popular on my blog. That’s why I suggested the topic to Michael Cohn, founder and CTO of CompuKol Communications — when he asked me to write a guest post for his very popular social media for business blog.
I’d been reading …
How to Inspire the AHA Moment: Ask Anne
Expatriate Coach Anne Egros uses social media to check in back home, especially with LinkedIn — where I met her via a comment on the guest post by Victoria Ipri:
8 Tips to Get Astounding Results with LinkedIn
Anne Egros, Pharm D, is an independent professional coach, based in Brussels, the …
7 Minutes to Empowering Your LinkedIn Profile
One of the treasured opportunities for BNI [Business Networking International] members is the time we get to present an extended Infomercial to our “salesforce,” i.e. our chapter members.
Next week I plan to condense my 2-hour LinkedIn workshop into seven minutes — to provide an outline of tips for filling out …
When Mayo Clinic Openly Values Social Media, Can Rest of World Be Far Behind?
Mayo Clinic is opening a Center for Social Media to train other health care organizations to use Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to connect patients and doctors. The new center will run workshops, offer consulting and host conferences.
This article is actually about two topics and one question:
1) How a top U.S. …
Why Your Website Really Needs a Blog
“Blogs provide a dimension to content that you can’t get from your website.”
. . . and that is only one of the insights in a great article I found online in a blog post by Michael Cohn, the Chief Technology Officer of CompuKol Communications. He has over 25 years of …
Teaching with Blogs and Twitter — When “Student Help” Means the Students Are Helping: What are you likely to learn?
My English students are practicing their writing skills on personal blogs for class assignments. A few of the students still “didn’t get it,” i.e. what was this blogging stuff all about?
So I asked them all to write a paragraph with this topic sentence:
“Blogs are a great way for people to …
One-Shot Social Media Lessons Don’t Do The Trick
Summer Social Media University: Are you ready to dive in?
**this month’s classes already underway, but email me if you’re interested in future classes: sharisax@aol.com
After a year of offering social media classes and consulting sessions to local business friends, I have concluded that “One-Shot” experiences may fire up students, but …
Nook Goes After Baby Boomers with Extra Large Type . . . and lower price
My BFF Sandy Davis has done it again. Recently she reported on her Electronic Book Reader research that paid off with All The Reasons To Choose Nook Over Kindle. Here’s the latest . . .
Nook News! For one thing: Prices are Down
Guest Post by Sandy Davis
Yesterday, Barnes and Noble …
How To Create Your Own Success on LinkedIn
Randy Schrum is considered one of the leading authorities on LinkedIn & Twitter and is co-manager of the #1 LinkedIn & Twitter Strategies groups.
He is the author of Twitter Strategies, which teaches businesses and Twitter users how to build on their business and professional goals using twitter.
I “met” him …
Will a FREE WordPress Theme Work for Your Blog?
When my WordPress Meetup group discussed the new features of WordPress 3.0, I was gungho to get started. Not only did I download the upgrade, but I also decided to test out a new theme.
Good thing I “tested” it on a training blog . . . because OOOPS my new …
The Main Reason You Should Attend a Linchpin Meetup
By the time you read this article, there will undoubtedly have been way more than 6,000 people who’ve attended Linchpin Meetups all over the world. I attended my first such event in Columbus, OH, on June 14 — The First International Linchpin Meetup Day.
Meetups allow people to form groups with …
Don’t Make These Webinar Blunders
Lately WEBINARS have been Top of Mind for me:
Should You be Doing Webinars? Should I?
If Webinars are the way to go, here’s how to do them
In a Twitter conversation, friend/colleague Karen Clark and I were discussing preferred webinar providers. Meanwhile, Anthony Russo, who monitors Twitter for keywords like webinar, found us …
Becoming involved in the Social Media community is the most exciting life change in memory.
Discovering how each and every one of us has an opportunity to MAKE A NAME FOR OURSELVES and share our knowledge and insights with interested readers is tremendously empowering.
As I write this blog, read comments here, and do the same with the blogs of others -- I know that we all can benefit in a host of ways. Let's DO IT!
HOW TO DO SOCIAL MEDIA BY THE BOOK
