Simple Strategies to Start on Social Media
If you’re new to using social media for your business, it can admittedly be overwhelming. I have friends, long time college veterans of Facebook, who have disabled their Facebook accounts for personal reasons, only to come back later, barraged with all of the changes that Facebook invariably throws at us. If my friends, who I […]
Where Do You Find Content?
There is an abundance of information and content floating around in the internet, but the question is, what is the best? Surely, we all don’t have time to go aimlessly searching for good articles, links, facts and information everyday to find something to populate our social media content. Here are some ways that can help […]
What You Need to Know About E-Newsletter Marketing
It was a long time coming, but Katie Wagner Social Media finally launched our e-newsletter last month! (Shameless plug: subscribe here for a monthly digest of social media tips to help you and your business!) To be frank, before starting our own mailing list, I felt a slight apprehension about e-newsletters. Why? My own personal […]
Reflections from Brian Solis' Keynote
This past Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending the LinkedOC event featuring renowned author and thought-leader, Brian Solis. Solis is the author of the best-selling book “The End of Business as Usual”, and his keynote revolved around the book’s themes of social commerce and social media in business. The consumer marketplace and the way […]
Be a Better Listener on Social Media
You hear it all the time: In the real world, having good communication skills is crucial to achieving success in all aspects of your life, from your relationships to your career. And a key component of having good communication skills is learning how to listen, to think less about what you’re going to say next […]
Be Smart on Social Media: Think Before You Post
With kids and youth becoming adept at technology at such early ages, teaching them how to be good digital citizens in order to avoid future repercussions has become a vital issue. Youth need our guidance, but even adults need a reminder every now and then about just how important it is to be smart on […]
Redeeming Yourself On Social Media
Two weeks ago I wrote about how I had felt slighted by a company through social media. If you missed the blog post, you can read it here. Long story short, I had tweeted a company, only to find that my question was swept under the rug and that the company was replying to other […]
Do You Have a Social Media Plan?
Odds are, you don’t. Most of the people we have talked to don’t have a plan regarding their social media. They open their computer, login to Facebook, and then start thinking about what to write. Then they say that social media doesn’t work. OF COURSE IT DOESN’T WORK! Well, it doesn’t work if you don’t […]
Are You Being 'Social' on Social Media?
Something that I continue to come back to time and again is the concept that social media is all about being social. Simple, right? Then why isn’t everyone doing it? Why is the vast majority of content thrown onto a page or scheduled, and then never looked at again? If I wanted a news source, […]
Thank You, Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs passing away leaves me with an inexplicably poignant and empty feeling, the same kind of feeling I get whenever I finish reading a long novel, like I’m saying goodbye to the characters that I had grown to know so well. It’s silly, really, feeling these sentiments—fictional characters are but made up, and of […]
