Thursday, September 2, 2010

From the category archives:

Social Media Tips and Tricks

Make WordPress More Secure

August 10, 2010

Recently there have been several injection exploit attacks on WordPress through specific hosting companies. Godaddy, Network Solutions, and most recently Media Temple hosted sites were targeted for the attacks. The one I just dealt with on this blog (and 23 of my own and client blogs) was called JohnnyA. It inserted a Javascript that re-directed [...]

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Need to Learn WordPress?

August 5, 2010

It’s no secret that I think WordPress is the best blogging platform, and I recommend it for Websites too. WordPress can enable you to create an online presence for a fraction of what a traditional web site costs and have an easy to use content management system (CMS) to boot. Installing, configuring and training on [...]

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Are You an Irregular Blogger?

July 19, 2010

Every successful blogger or blogging coach will tell you it’s important to blog regularly to maintain the interest of your readers. How often is up to you, but often it’s helpful to set a sort of schedule to your blogging so people begin to expect to hear from you on a regular basis. It can [...]

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Scribe SEO for WordPress

July 9, 2010

I thought I knew quite a bit about search engine optimization until I found this nifty new tool called Scribe. Even though I optimize sites for search engines as part of my daily duties, it can be tedious and there is always more to learn. Unless you do this for a living it’s probably not [...]

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Secret Formula for Social Media Success? Naaah.

June 22, 2010

What it takes to be a success in social media is the ability to be fluid and organic in your approach. To move quickly and decisively as new issues develop, evaluate new tools and networks for their usefulness, usability and appropriateness. To interact with your users and community and listen to what their needs and [...]

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Give some thought to social media and privacy

June 9, 2010

I attended one of the pre-sessions of the Ragan Communications Social Media Summit at Cisco today. The session was on legal issues, but the first part was really all about security, and Christopher Burgess a senior security officer at Cisco (@burgessct on Twitter) brought up some interesting points. True, most of it is very common-sense [...]

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Stop using social media to build traffic to your web site!

May 26, 2010

Some people sell social media as a “great traffic driver” and it is, it’s awesome Google candy too, but that shouldn’t be your goal or your sole reason for using it.

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Social Media Services – The Tide is Turning

May 24, 2010

When I did presentations for events or large groups a couple of years ago people wanted to hear what social media was and to understand it’s potential for their business. Now they’re done with all the rah-rah and the high level overviews. They want real, actionable information that’s going to fit with the way they [...]

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Film-making and Social Media

February 17, 2010

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 [...]

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The difference between being ON a social network and being ENGAGED

December 13, 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 [...]

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