Saturday, February 4, 2012

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Social Media Tips and Tricks

Naming your Facebook page

March 31, 2011

Naming your page isn’t so important when you set it up.You want it to be evocative of the mission of the page, sure, but you’re probably going to change it anyway, and until you get that precious 25 followers the url is going to look something like this: http://facebook.com/pages/my-page-name-is-way-too-long-to-remember/2348y003452345 Geez. How do you even begin [...]

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Why aren’t there more women in open source (and what are you gonna do about it?)

March 25, 2011

I’m a big fan of open source and as a woman who mangles a line of code here and there, I’m constantly amazed when I see how few women there are working in the field. Now, this is not one of those boo-hoo posts (you guys are MEAN!) about poor down-trodden women getting short shrift. [...]

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One True Fan?

January 31, 2011

Part of my job is to try out applications, tools, networks and such so I can tell my clients if they’re worth the learning curve or a waste of their bandwidth. Frankly it’s a lot of fun and I find some really cool stuff. I also find a lot of stuff I wouldn’t suggest you [...]

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Does Social Media Mean You’ll Never Have to Cold Call Again?

January 16, 2011

That’s a question not a statement. Here’s what I think, but I’d love to hear your perspective in the comments. Any good sales or PR person will tell you, what they do all about the relationships. You build solid relationships and that equals respect and trust which leads to referrals. Whether those referrals are for [...]

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Facebook Steps Up

November 3, 2010

It’s no shock to anyone who knows me that I’m not a big fan of Facebook. It’s not personal really I just think they’ve treated their less tech savvy users pretty badly in the past by simply not making the user interface easy to understand, constantly changing the layout and options, much less the security [...]

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Need to Learn WordPress?

October 14, 2010

Remember that little snafoo I had last month with the hacker attack on my WordPress installs? Not only did it take down my blogs but it affected the launch of the WordPress training classes I’d been slaving over. Now we’ve got a new membership management system (Digital Access Pass ROCKS the rest) and even more [...]

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Don’t Squander Your Social Capital

October 4, 2010

Social capital is one of the new buzz words of the decade. Basically it’s a ratio of the size of your network and how much of that network listens to you, trusts you and takes action based on what they’ve read. How much Klout you have is one way to measure it. Tara Hunt calls [...]

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Break down bloggers block

September 8, 2010

I know I know, I just wrote a post on how important it is to be a regular blogger and here I am not having blogged in days! Weeks even! Maybe I jinxed myself. Frankly, I’ve been busy coaching clients and speaking and traveling and that’s all good, but it’s not an excuse. I expect [...]

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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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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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