SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Instagram quickly became, and continues to be, the social media app of choice for people wanting to show the world who they “really” are. It can also be an incredibly powerful professional tool. Professionals inevitably ask these three questions about Instagram: Can Instagram be good for my career?

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 1, 2022

Is YouTube Facing Challenges As A Social Network? While YouTube still commands the lion’s share of video-based social media popularity and user base, it is seeing rising competition. While YouTube has been around longer than many social media platforms, it continues to grow at a fast rate. Is YouTube dying?

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 16, 2017

I get a lot of really good feedback from my readers who ask questions that often go quite a bit beyond the articles the I write. But the feedback, recommendations, and additional tools that have been tested led to a follow-up article. In this case, I’m sharing a tweet of one my social media comics. –Sean.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 5, 2014

Thanks to Karleen for sharing her thoughts on how social media capabilities and intranets can be combined to help businesses succeed! The Social Intranet Defined A social intranet is a way of conducting business communication within your company or network, using social tools approved by management for employee communication.

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 20, 2022

At the same time, the concept of making money from blogs and earning an income from our social media influence was steadily growing. The question now, in 2022, is: “is that strategy still effective?”. In 2021, Pinterest reported it has 448 million users globally, making it the fourth most popular social media outlet.

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 19, 2017

So obviously it’s a social media tip that people have been thinking about. To continue in this series of social media cross-promotion, I thought I’d go ahead and add a follow-up post that answers the question of “how do a share a Facebook post on Twitter?” shortener. –Sean.

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SocMed Sean

AUGUST 12, 2018

You Will Understand The Power Of Interpersonal Communication And Social Media. Attending a course on marketing, particular a course that focuses specifically on communication or social media marketing , will allow you to see the power, reach and impact of social media on our everyday lives.

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 9, 2013

Most of you probably know that Google+ has been around for a couple of years now and is Google’s attempt to overcome the hideous social media experiments of Google Wave and Google Buzz. This is different from putting your social media publication on auto-pilot. Let’s be clear.

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SocMed Sean

AUGUST 12, 2018

You Will Better Understand The Power Of Interpersonal Communication And Social Media. Attending a course on marketing, particular a course that focuses specifically on communication or social media marketing , will allow you to see the power, reach and impact of social media on our everyday lives.

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Course Skills Marketing Training 100

SocMed Sean

AUGUST 21, 2013

Mainstream emergence of social media has certainly created an environment where consumers are willing to share every aspect of their daily activities, so we should be able to filter out the noise and get to the juicy nuggets. In the age of social media, businesses are gobbling up customer data like Pac-Man. –Sean.

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 22, 2018

Believe it or not, I get asked this question A LOT. In fact, I would get that questions relating to content restriction are probably one of the most common questions that get via my contact form or direct messages on the various social networks. The most recent request came in the form of this question: Heya, Sean.

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Facebook Privacy Construction Mobile 213

SocMed Sean

MAY 17, 2018

I’m particularly happy that Ancestry validated my animal handling capabilities, as well as my value of history as a guiding tool for the future. OK, OK… so it’s not my REAL ancestry DNA results, but as a child of an adopted parent, I am curious as to what my results my be.

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Survey Hashtag Questions Twitter 154

SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Basically, other than GMail, I have been unimpressed by any of Google’s attempts at social networking tools (and YouTube doesn’t count because they bought that technology, they didn’t develop it). Without the soap-opera feel of Facebook or Twitter, Google+ because a giant social media sausage-fest.

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SocMed Sean

AUGUST 27, 2015

Having worked in social media and digital marketing for quite a while now , I often get asked questions by my clients about gaining more Twitter followers , attracting new Facebook fans or generating more subscribes to a YouTube channel.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

I get a lot of questions via Facebook , Twitter and my email contact form and many of the items listed below come straight from those questions, my experience in social media strategy, years of researching platforms and best practices and…well…tinkering with social media. So, here they are.

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SocMed Sean

JULY 3, 2019

SocMedSean - Social.Media.Sean [ANSWERED] Troubleshooting Facebook Issues Like “No Photo Description Available” Or Photos Not Displaying Okay, I have had several questions today about this one. Shareholders might start questioning whether they should own Facebook stock. Users might start tweeting instead.

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Tools like HootSuite and TweetDeck make Twitter much easier to use and manage. If you’re interested in learning more about social media, feel free to follow me @socmedsean. See someone that has a question, answer it. Take 5 minutes and come up with a short description that tells me something about you. Express it.

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Tweetdeck Twitter HootSuite Hashtag 279

SocMed Sean

JULY 25, 2019

SocMedSean - Social.Media.Sean [ANSWERED] Using Lazy Load To Speed Up WordPress While Maintaining Pinterest Pinnable Images This was a great question that came from the Mediavine group on Facebook. If you have questions, feel free to reach out or leave them in a comment! Again, I don’t recommend it.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 26, 2018

As odd as it might sound, Google could actually penalize your content for using the Google Translation tool. Also, shoot me any questions in a comment or via my contact form and I’ll answer them as soon as I can. Let me know what did or didn’t work for you. –Sean Share This Post With A Pin!

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URL SEO WordPress Google 235

SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Whether from my clients, friends, or other WordPress fans, I often hear questions like: How do I speed up WordPress while still using plugins for functionality? If these are questions you have about your WordPress site, read on. Are there best practices for securing my WordPress instance? Do good plugins really slow down my site?

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Job hunting is a job by itself, and if you're currently looking for work, chances are you're using social media networks to extend your search, which is a brilliant step. With over 800 million users worldwide, LinkedIn is one of the most popular social networks. Is LinkedIn still a good tool for a job search? Not at all.

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SocMed Sean

OCTOBER 21, 2018

I have gotten this question a few times and it’s a very tough one to answer, but I’ll give it my best shot. The simple fact is that big social media companies like Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Snapchat just don’t want to be inundated with support requests.

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Instagram FAQ LinkedIn Issues 248

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

When people ask me what I do for a living and I tell them I’m a Director of Social Media for a digital agency, they usually respond with 1 of 2 questions: 1) Does that mean you get to play on Facebook all day? -or- While the answer to the first question is simple and a resounding “No!”

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SocMed Sean

AUGUST 26, 2018

This one is a really good question that I got from a friend of mine who is a blogger. The other day, over coffee, we were talking about growing her traffic in order to generate more revenue and she asked the following question: Would it be worth it for me to run a Facebook ad campaign that is focused on driving traffic to my blog?

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