Just a short blog post on keeping yourself safe through the storms of the last few application hacks. We need to take our security seriously or pay the consequences. Throughout all my social media training programs, I made it a point to tell everyone that they needed a separate password for all their online accounts. [...]
What is now being called the "Twitter Olympics", is not going ahead without a few hiccups. NBC & other corporations are struggling to push their way around despite the concerns raised by social media; specifically Twitter. Headline like this are being generated from the London Olympics: Journalist Suspended From Twitter for Tweeting NBC Email Fans asked to tweet from Olympics [...]
I am always trying to push social media to see what can be done. I want to show people that barriers can be broken in social media and on Google. Latest results for social media training Dartmouth & Halifax. I had previously written several posts on how social media efforts Google Search results: Google Search [...]
There is a lot of buzz around social media and the London Olympics this year. Athletes are embracing social media and pushing out real time information to their fans. Will you be engaging as well? Just imagine as the soccer game plays out, people are tweeting and Facebooking each other in real time. For those who cannot be in [...]
I have trained a lot of businesses in social media over the last 4 years. One of the true traits of success I have noticed is commitment. Without commitment, one will fail. I understand that not everyone will see the value of social media training for their business right away. For some, it takes a while before [...]
You want more Twitter followers. But should you take the easy way out and buy them? Read on for the true cost of Twitter followers. https://twitter.com/vinnynobrega/status/224870308832755714 My good friend Rob Cairns @RobCairns was sent the above @mention message on Twitter. And since Rob has a good sense of humor, he replied thus: https://twitter.com/RobCairns/status/224952666441265152 Rob [...]
I added a funny graphic to my Facebook Profile and asked my teenage daughter to check it out. She did not find it funny. Our marketing efforts need to be understood to be effective as well. Here is the graphic that I put on my Facebook Wall: Lionel Richie Tea Graphic What I [...]
Thoughts come and go into your head every day. It's the ones that you dwell and let give birth that can help or hurt your business. Don't let those thoughts kill your dreams. Watch what you dwell on! I had a dream last night about my business. The thought came in and said [...]
For those new to Twitter, a retweet is a tweet that has been put back onto Twitter. It's like an echo. A retweet gives a tweet new life and visibility; even for but a few minutes more. You may have seen the "Retweet" button on Twitter and wondered what it does. A retweet allows you [...]
Social media setup can take a bit to get up and running. But once you are done, then you have to figure out what you are going to post on your social media. Here's a few ideas. I generally like to share lots of photos on social media. Here is one I took just a [...]