LinkedIn is considered one of the “Big Three” of social media, but it doesn’t get nearly as much attention as Twitter and Facebook, despite the fact that it’s been around much longer. I suspect that it’s because many people use Facebook and Twitter for personal networking rather than, or in addition to, business networking, whereas…
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Avoiding Automation Overkill
There are a lot of tools out there that were designed to save us time when using social media. I take advantage of a select few myself, such as using FeedBurner to automatically post my blog updates to my Twitter feed. There are also a lot of people out there who have discovered they can automatically…
Top 9 Things I Learned at Social Media Success Summit 2010
It’s hard to believe that the Summit is over. It was starting to feel like part of my regular routine, to pack up work early and start listing to great speakers for a while! There were 18 sessions in total, and I told you a bit about the first seven in my previous posts Kicking…
Social Media Strategies for Small Business Workshop in Hamilton
Have you noticed lately that conversations at business networking events often seem to gravitate towards the topic of social media? When that happens, do you jump in with your success stories, or do you quietly listen and wonder what the fuss is all about? Well, you don’t have to wonder anymore! By popular request, I…
Social Media Success Summit continues…
With 18 sessions over a three-week period, I’m finding it a challenge to fit them all into my schedule, so if you were hoping that I’d blog about each one, you may be disappointed. I will, however, do my best to let you know what you’ve missed by not signing up, with the help of…
Using Social Networking to Grow Your Business
I hate to say it, but the end of summer is not very far away. I’m not talking about the official end of summer on September 21, but the start-up of fall activities. In fact, in some places, they’ve already gone back to school! Even when the school year had no bearing on my own…
Benefit from the Experience of Others
At one of the first small business networking events I ever attended, the group leader gave an excellent presentation in which she explained that no matter what you’re working on, you don’t have to learn everything the hard way. Whether it’s a marketing technique, an administrative procedure, or something specific to the services you offer,…
Facebook Revisited
It doesn’t seem so very long ago that I was singing the praises of Facebook for both personal and professional use, does it? How quickly things change in our high tech world! At a BizLaunch seminar earlier this year, the facilitator quoted some interesting statistics. He said that during the first half of 2008, Facebook…
The Evolution of Online Networking
People have been using the Internet to communicate as long as the technology has existed. When I first went online in 1995, I joined a few newsgroups related to my areas of interest. I was vaguely aware that even before the worldwide web, there were bulletin board systems that people could dial into to discuss…
How an Internet Marketing VA Can Support Your Social Networking Activities
A couple of weeks ago, I answered the question, What is an Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant? As promised, today I will begin a series of posts describing specific ways that an IMVA can enhance your online marketing, starting with social networking. There’s no question that social media has taken the world by storm, and I touched…