Whether you are a writer by profession or not, one thing is true. We are all authors now. Every time we get on Facebook or LinkedIn or Google+ or Twitter, we are publishing something. You might have heard the rumor that Twitter is dumbing us down, making us like teenagers who text on their cell…
I saw a graphic of a bumper sticker on someone’s Facebook update yesterday. “Sorry Twitter. I’m just not that into you,” it said. But 190 million registered Twitter users might disagree. Like Facebook, Twitter has a diverse group of users, from people who just want to stay in touch with friends to businesses who expect a…
When a post moves off your blog’s home page—no matter how spectacular it was—it stops getting visitors.
What if it happened to be a post you were particularly proud of? But maybe all your readers were on vacation the week it came out. Or you wrote it just one month after you started blogging, so only three people read it.
1. Calls himself a social media expert. Sometimes people who call themselves an expert are the very ones who turn out not to be one. In the Internet Wild West, especially particularly in the new frontier of social media, “experts” are popping up like weeds in a vegetable garden, in places and situations where they do more harm…
I didn’t grow up with Mr. Rogers, but my daughter did, and, man, did he did know about people and relationships and, well, etiquette. “Etiquette? What’s that?” you say. I’ve been thinking about etiquette lately. You know, that word that describes treating someone with respect, integrity, sensitivity. With empathy? Anita Campbell, the highly respected Editor-in-Chief of Small Business…
Her name is Ivy Bean. She has 16,719 followers on Twitter, including self-help guru Tony Robbins, actress Demi Moore and the LA Times. When Ivy Bean joined Facebook last year, she became, at age 103, the oldest member, beating out a 97-year-old woman from France. Now she has stormed the micro-blogging world. Her Twitter name is @IvyBean104 and…
Two of my smart, talented friends have asked me important marketing questions this past week. “Aren’t you crazy overwhelmed by social media?”one said. “How do I find time for marketing when I’m busting my *ss looking for clients?” the other wanted to know. I get those questions. I struggle with them every day. Social media,…
Okay. I guess I’m in my stirring things up mode. Last week, crowdsourcing, and today, well, today I take on the topic of misunderstood tweets. I read an article online recently that told us that we should “think of Twitter as email.” It was an interesting statement, in light of an experience I had last week. Your tweets can…
Are you like me? Are you playing around in the Twitter sandbox? Digging, shoveling, trying to figure it all out? And have you yet? Twitter is its own creature: elusive and unique, like an overachieving adolescent, a pimply geek who is oddly fascinating and has some deep stuff going on below the surface. It’s filled with all kinds…
Social media has brought about a whole new way of doing business, of communicating, building community and just plain changing the way we relate. Bloggers blog. Twitterers tweet. For some of us, it comes naturally. Some, not all. Ever sit in a group of people and start talking about blogs and all of a sudden…
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