Twitter is a wonderful way to stay connected with a wide variety of people, even people you don’t know in the real world. I first learned about Michael Jackson’s death via Twitter, all of the latest plugins for WordPress came from Twitter and I can eavesdrop on some interesting conversations. But with so many people […]
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At a recent dinner party I happened to mention shopping at a local independent retail store. My friend Sean angrily remarked he never shopped there. I was surprised because Sean is very loyal to the local business community. He makes a point of shopping in town, even if going to the city or buying online
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Recently I’ve had a few people ask me how to create an event on Facebook so that their Fan page and not their personal profile is the host. It’s easy to do. Here’s how: First, go to your Fan page while you’re logged into Facebook. Under your Page’s picture (on the left side of your
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A tool for managing Twitter, Facebook & other social media Monitoring your connections, updating your status and just staying on top of your social media presence can become a challenge as your numbers of connections grows, particularly when you have more than a couple of hundred connections. Even for just Twitter, if you want to
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It’s a beautiful Monday morning here in Owen Sound; day three of the first long weekend of the summer. This celebration of Queen Victoria’s birthday gives us blue sky, warm temperatures and the neighbours’ garage sales … where people buy other people’s crap to take home so they need to have a garage sale of
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Once you’re following more than a couple of dozen people online or are using more than two social media sites, it’s worth considering investing the time to learn one of the social media aggregators. This lets you monitor what your connections are saying, track keywords, even make comments or publish content from a single place,
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I wish I could take credit for the term “social poop” but sadly I can’t. I first learned the term from Andy Fogarty in a wonderful blog post called How To Create Social Proof In 3 Simple Steps on the Laura Roeder blog. Andy defines social poop as the stuff you get from Twitter feeds
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This past weekend was the unofficial end of spring here in Canada. This coming weekend is known as the May 2-4 weekend; a long weekend officially celebrating the birth of Queen Victoria but in reality, the traditional time for opening the cottage for the summer. In unusual fashion, this year’s long weekend actually includes May
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When networking on the site LinkedIn, you want to make sure you target the right people to connect with. While I believe you should be some sort of open networker, you don’t need to have an enormous list of connections if you target the right people. A network of 500 highly targeted connections is far
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Many entrepreneurs who are publishing online have questions about copyright. In particular they are often worried about their material being stolen. From a marketing point of view, having your blog posts, videos and slide shows reused by others is useful, as long as you get credit (and a link back to your own site). That’s
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