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Film-making and Social Media
When I was asked to participate on tonight’s panel for Bay Area Women in Film and Media I was excited. I love films and particularly indie films. To have an opportunity to not only meet women working to create their own film and media projects but to help them learn how to use social media [...]
Continue reading...The difference between being ON a social network and being ENGAGED
13. December 2009
Many people seem to think if they have a big ‘ol following on their favorite social media networks they’ve attained a level of social media success. While it may get you some search engine love and people may click on the links you send out, if you’re not actually engaging other users in conversation it’s [...]
Continue reading...Twitter- Where’s the conversation?
13. September 2009
It’s funny how the questions I get from my network seem to come in waves. This week I got a load of people asking me what had happened to the “old” Twitter where we bantered with our friends, made new ones and had back and forth conversations as in a typical face to face.
The conversations [...]
Delicious is not dead
31. August 2009
In fact, Delicious just got some new bells and whistles that take it beyond being the social media bookmarking site where you keep your bookmarks and pin your SEO dreams on. Delicious just go real time. Yahoo (Delicious’s parent co) added Fresh Bookmarks to the site. Now when you visit Delicious bookmarks [...]
Continue reading...6 Ways to Attract Twitter Followers
25. August 2009
No it’s not another Twitter pyramid scheme. This is about attracting real, useful followers to your Twitter network.
Be interesting and unique
Share your own perspective on news or new information you find. Do you scan a pile of blogs for information? Share it, but look for things that aren’t mainstream. I mean, I love ReadWriteWeb, Mashable [...]
7 Reasons NOT to Engage in Social Media
23. August 2009
I run into people almost every day who are not ready or willing to jump into the social media pool. Some of them are just plain scared of new technology, but others have more focused reasons for not engaging. Here are the top 7. Add yours in the comments and how you resolve them! And [...]
Continue reading...SXSW Panel Voting Has Begun
18. August 2009
SXSWi was a huge focus for social media people of all kinds last year and I attended virtually over Twitter and live blogs. That is SO not gonna happen again. There are over 2000 presentations and panels proposed and so many I want to hear I’m like a kid in a candy store trying [...]
Continue reading...Social Media-Listen Before You Leap!
14. August 2009
Before you dive into social media for any reason, listening should be your first step. What are people talking about and where are they doing it? Is there buzz out there about you or your product that you didn’t know about? Who should you be connecting to? Has there been a recent event you want [...]
Continue reading...Women Presenters on Social Media
12. August 2009
When The Speakers Group recently posted a Top 10 list of social media speakers they really put their foot in it. Not only were there no women listed, they were accused of moderating out comments critical of the list. NOT mind you, that the list didn’t have some amazing speakers on it, or that women [...]
Continue reading...Is Your Lifestream Backed Up?
7. August 2009
Yesterday’s big noise was all about the Denial of Service attack on Twitter and several other social media networks, and it’s likely not over yet. Cnet reported that the attack was probably targeted at one blogger, and the story is a good read if you’re interested in the details of how these kinds of attacks [...]
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