Thursday, May 17, 2012

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Social Media Tips and Tricks

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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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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