Sharisax Is Out There,Social Media Strategy,Twitter,Twitter Basics         2 comments

“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 …

 Blogging,Guest Post,LinkedIn,Social Media Strategy         3 comments

What’s a blog carnival anyway? I read about them in a chapter of Patrick Schwerdtfeger’s book Webify Your Business and so I signed up for one. But it didn’t seem like there was much going on, so I posted the question on LinkedIn:
Who’s had experience with Blog Carnivals?
The Best …

 Interview,Sharisax Is Out There,Social Media Strategy         8 comments

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. …

 Guest Post,Social Media Basics,Social Media Strategy         4 comments

My business communication adventure has veered onto an exciting new HighWay with my introduction and initiation into BNI, the largest business networking organization in the world.
It all started when I read a LinkedIn request for a SOCIAL MEDIA TRAINER to join the 1st Advantage chapter of BNI in Marin …

 Blogging,Blogging Basics,Getting Started,Guest Post,Social Media Strategy         2 comments

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 …

 Featured,Social Media Strategy,Twitter,Twitter Basics         8 comments

Now that 106 million Twitter accounts have been set up, it’s a great time to distinguish yourself from the rank & file. Building an online presence — whatever the platform — is, in fact, under your control.  People using the “Global Whiteboard,” i.e. the Internet, must keep in mind that …

 Blogging,Guest Post,Sharisax Is Out There,Social Media Strategy         1 comment

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 …

 Featured,Getting Started,PR 2.0,Social Media Basics,Social Media Strategy         28 comments

“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 …

 Communication Strategy,Guest Post,Sharisax Is Out There,Social Media Strategy         No comments

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 …

 Featured,Sharisax Is Out There,Social Media Marketing,Social Media Strategy         2 comments

As a San Francisco area marketing lecturer, I’m always interested in the activities of SFAMA, the San Francisco chapter of the American Marketing Association.
Membership in this organization offers a variety of benefits from connections to 45,000+ professionals, attendance at regular educational meetings and workshops, small discussion groups, job banks, and …

 Guest Post,Sharisax Is Out There,Social Media Marketing,Social Media Strategy         5 comments

How many downloaded apps are on your SmartPhone . . . that you don’t use . . . because you don’t know how?
I’ve got lots, but I wasn’t going to let Foursquare languish, especially since I need it as I adventure through the “villages” of New York City.
So when my …

 Interview,Sharisax Is Out There,Social Media Strategy         2 comments

Not everyone can spend the day Tweeting, Linking, Blogging, and Facebook-ing — even if he or she wants to. That’s why my friend and fellow BACN member, Mike Van Horn hired Andrea Dwyer and introduced her to me:

I want to connect you with Andrea Dwyer, the VA who helps …