The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets The One Way to Fail in Social Media Sometimes, when my traffic is sinking, or I don’t get any comments on a post, I feel I failed as a writer and social media commentator. social media? Look at me! LOOK AT ME!&# That will take you far.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets The Complications of the Facebook Relationship Relationships were never easy. Facebook made them ridiculously harder. Back in 2004, before Facebook had news feeds and was for college kids only, my friend had a Facebook stalker. This isn’t anything entirely new.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets 3 Instant ways to make your Social Media Better Treat people the way you want to be treated. What do you do to make your social media suck less? Be nice. There are more people online than you. If you piss them off they will win on sheer numbers alone. Be a human.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets What would you do for a Foursquare Badge? Yesterday, MTV and Foursquare they were teaming up as part of MTV’s Get Yourself Tested campaign. The idea behind the campaign is that when you check into a clinic, you get the GYT badge (seen above). It’s a virtual Scarlet Letter.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Ping, Game Center, and Apple’s Big Social Networks Apple is joining the social network game in two big ways. How often do we have a social network launch that’s already tied into hundreds of millions of people? Ping will pay for itself very quickly.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets How do You Help Your Readers? am a firm believer that people will read your blog or visit your website for one of two reasons: They want to learn. They want to be entertained. If you can do one of these well, you will build an audience. If you can do both well, you can build an empire.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets We Can Make Social Media Better I’m bored with social media and telling you how to behave on social networks. Part of my boredom is I’m seeing social media as too much business. This is where social marketing currently fails.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets How Not to Participate in Social Media There’s more to participating in social media than getting an official account on a social network. Think of how you can be different in social spaces. Talk to your customers.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Parents: Don’t make Facebook Profiles for your Children Parents who make and update Facebook profiles for their children drive me nuts. Why Why does your infant need a profile separate from your own when s/he cannot even update it on their own? Let them live their own life.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets What’s the point of Foursquare Badges? There is no value in Foursquare badges. Badges provide no immediate or long term value to users, they don’t tell anything about your skills, and aren’t even actual things.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Social Media Policies Suck Corporate social media policies suck. Corporate suits don’t understand how to communicate with average human beings and average humans don’t know how to keep their mouths shut on social media sites.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Zynga’s Cash Cow If one company is truly evil in the social media world, it is Zynga. Zynga and other social games companies call the people who pay vast sums of money whales. Zynga and Farmville have power. 85 million users of power.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets I contribute pieces over at Brazen Careerist pretty regularly, but I was really flattered that Ryan Paugh wanted me to make a video with my best advice about work and careers. That’s right, I’m moving off the internet and into the realm of the mass media. My advice?

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Content Creation Burnout How much do you blog a week? The only thing holding us to our blogs and social media is ourselves. How many times do you tweet or update Facebook in a day? Keeping up a schedule like that makes it easy for anyone to burn out. Do what you need to do.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Facebook is Evil There, I’ve said it. Any questions? meta 3 weeks ago 3 notes Facebook Tweet Notes: lovetohatefacebook reblogged this from theantisocialmedia grantmartin liked this waynesutton liked this theantisocialmedia posted this Copyright Jay Dolan 2010 &

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets 80 Fully-Engaged Followers vs. 800 Partially Engaged Followers The other day, I was reading another person boast about how many followers they had on Twitter, and I wondered: Would you choose to have 80 followers who are completely engaged with what you do online, or 800 followers who are only partially engaged?

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Facebook Crap I hate I’m great at bitching about all the tweets I hate , but I never harped on the weird crap people put on Facebook all the time. So, without ado, the five things people do on Facebook I hate most. Suggest Friends - I know who my friends are. Use that information.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Facebook Friends - Yes or Maybe Facebook added another feature nobody asked for. Now, instead of adding or ignoring a friend request, it, You have the choice of Add or Not Now. What was once a simple, one click process is now a four click process. They can see. They can see.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Does Anyone Actually Use QR Codes? don’t see the value in QR Codes. Maybe it’s because I don’t have a native app on my iPhone to scan them, but I think it’s because no one has given them any use to the average person. Still, I feel like I’m missing something.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Don’t Call People Names Online Sometimes my posts appear in places other than on The Anti-Social Media. Some of my articles appear on Social Media Today , and others appear on Brazen Careerist. The readers thought I was being serious instead of sarcastic.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets This is Not Social Media News, Mashable. Unless he’s tweeting, Facebooking, blogging, or even Google Buzzing, Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman is not social media news. meta 2 weeks ago 0 notes Mashable Social Media News Tweet Copyright Jay Dolan 2010 &

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Shoutout! Jennifer McClure - Social Media Superwoman There are a lot of awesome people who helped make the Anti-Social Media happen in a  variety of ways. Jennifer is an example about how to use social media smarter and how to connect with your followers.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Journals - The Original Anti-Social Media The other day I went shopping with one of my best friends, and I bought a paper planner. Books are the original Anti-Social Media. I dare you to find a media format more perfect. Here’s what I came up with.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Create Meaningful Content Does your content mean something to your followers? Content doesn’t have to be profound. No one reads on the internet anyways. You’re kidding yourself if you think your next blog post will instantly change the world. Make them smile. Make them think. Having

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets You Don’t Have to Follow Social Media “Experts&# (Including Me) I worry about who I follow all the time. Your work may not be related to social media as a whole, it may just include bits and pieces of it here and there. But is any of it right for you?

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Social Media Needs You. Social Media wouldn’t exist in the format we imagine it today if it weren’t for the millions of users constantly uploading and updating statuses and other media. According It’s easy to burnout on social media.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Social Media is Supposed to be Fun Once again, I’ve been feeling burned out from this blog for a while. I’ve forgotten how to have fun with social media and how to make fun of social media. Social media is fun.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets The Social Network Movie Review I saw The Social Network , aka the Facebook movie. The Social Network is a terribly mediocre movie. Compare The Social Network to Zodiac, Fincher’s other film based on a true story. love movies. The plot was dull.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Everyone Predict Facebook’s Next Annoucement Facebook is hosting an event tomorrow. My best guess is something to do with Places from the words “check-in.&#   But really, it could be anything that further develops the social layer they’ve added to our lives.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets A World Without Foursquare Foursquare was down for 11 hours yesterday. In the world of social media, that’s pretty much a lifetime and a half. I’m pretty sure Google Buzz didn’t even last 8 hours. Websites come and go in 11 hours. This is all too confusing.

The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Why Your Writing Sucks We all wish we could be better writers. With so many good writers online, it’s easy to get discouraged and angry because other authors make it look effortless.  It’s The good news is those minor mistakes do not make your writing suck.

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The allure of social media has made brands throw out any semblance of a strategy and have just jumped in. Each step explains what should be happening across each individual media type. When going through the outline, you’ll see me refer to owned media, shared media, paid media, and earned media. define each as: Owned media is the brand website and blog, media the brand has direct control over. Shared media includes brand social media platform and profiles. Paid media is all online advertising.

| Home | Jack Myers Media Business Report | Subscribe-Free | Shelly Palmer | JackMyersThinkTank | Social Media | Ed Martin | GroupM Home > Commentary > Steve Rosenbaums The Media Memo > Curate The Cloud - Steve Rosenbaum - MediaBizBlogger Curate The Cloud - Steve Rosenbaum - MediaBizBlogger Share | Steve Rosenbaum Published: June 10, 2009 at 01:34 PM GMT Last Updated: June 10, 2009 at 01:34 PM GMT By Steve Rosenbaum Theres a storm brewing. And how does this behavior make both social and business sense? This is good news. Folks did that, of course.

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Corporate Social Media Marketing is about Two-Way Communication by Adam Sherk on April 14, 2009 It’s a simple concept, but one that many companies are still struggling with in terms of practical implementation. In developing a corporate social media strategy, making the transition to direct participation, genuine engagement and two-way communication is not always easy. But that’s just what needed. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek Cares about (some of) your Tweets. Actual reader interaction happens through the personal accounts of members of their marketing and editorial staffs, and a number of media outlets are starting to get the hang of it. Related posts: A Closer Look at Fan Engagement on the Fox News Facebook Page Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites Fortune 100 Need to Get More Creative with Twitter Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? Fox News Not so Much.

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek Cares about (some of) your Tweets. Actual reader interaction happens through the personal accounts of members of their marketing and editorial staffs, and a number of media outlets are starting to get the hang of it. Related posts: A Closer Look at Fan Engagement on the Fox News Facebook Page Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites Fortune 100 Need to Get More Creative with Twitter Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? Fox News Not so Much.

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Rich Snippets: Increase Google Visibility for Reviews through Microformats by Adam Sherk on May 13, 2009 One of the announcements at Searchology yesterday was a new enhancement called Rich Snippets, in which Google is using structured data embedded in web pages (microformats and RDFa) to give users “convenient summary information about their search results at a glance.&# Related posts: Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles?

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek’s Tim Geithner Interview Live on Facebook: Don’t Forget to Link to the Video Afterwards by Adam Sherk on May 18, 2009 Today Newsweek offered live streaming of Jon Meacham’s interview with Treasury Security Tim Geithner on its Facebook page. This is a good example of how publishers are attempting to add more value to their official pages on social media sites, which is certainly needed as many of the pages are still fairly one-dimensional. Fox News Not so Much.

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek’s Tim Geithner Interview Live on Facebook: Don’t Forget to Link to the Video Afterwards by Adam Sherk on May 18, 2009 Today Newsweek offered live streaming of Jon Meacham’s interview with Treasury Security Tim Geithner on its Facebook page. This is a good example of how publishers are attempting to add more value to their official pages on social media sites, which is certainly needed as many of the pages are still fairly one-dimensional. Fox News Not so Much.

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Hitwise Reports News and Media’s Share of Search-Referred Traffic Declining by Adam Sherk on May 19, 2009 According to data released by Hitwise a few days ago, News & Media is one of the few categories showing a YoY decline in share of search-referred traffic: Fortunately the majority of sites we work with in this category are bucking the trend, as most are seeing strong improvements in YoY search engine referral traffic thus far this year.

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Hitwise Reports News and Media’s Share of Search-Referred Traffic Declining by Adam Sherk on May 19, 2009 According to data released by Hitwise a few days ago, News & Media is one of the few categories showing a YoY decline in share of search-referred traffic: Fortunately the majority of sites we work with in this category are bucking the trend, as most are seeing strong improvements in YoY search engine referral traffic thus far this year.

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? Related posts: Google News Optimization Tips News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags Article Highlights: Good for Users, Good for Search Engines Google News Now Recrawling Updated Articles Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google JavaScript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored Link Guidelines by Adam Sherk on June 5, 2009 Last week at the Google I/O developer conference it was announced that Google is now able to execute JavaScript onClick events, which basically means that links in JavaScript that were previously inaccessible can now be read and pass PageRank. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? Related posts: Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites 5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic Hitwise Reports News and Media’s Share of Search-Referred Traffic Declining Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? News , or direct navigate to a major news site.

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? Related posts: Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites 5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic Hitwise Reports News and Media’s Share of Search-Referred Traffic Declining Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? News , or direct navigate to a major news site.

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Daily Show Visits The New York Times by Adam Sherk on June 12, 2009 I couldn’t resist sharing this great video from The Daily Show of Jason Jones visiting The New York Times. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? The back-and-forth with Assistant Managing Editor Rick Burke about “aged news&# is my favorite part. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Article Highlights: Good for Users, Good for Search Engines by Adam Sherk on July 28, 2009 Yesterday Steve Rubel pointed out how the article highlights on sites like CNN.com and iMedia Connection are a good time saver for him. Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com Google News Now Recrawling Updated Articles Do People Search for “Breaking News”? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals? Related posts: Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag Syndication Best Practices: Reduce the Risk of Being Outranked for Your Own Content The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

You may be familiar with Dell, Starbucks and Jet Blue…a few well-known brands that have been trumpeted for their brilliant use of social media. Does social media marketing “work” for them too? general misconception out there today is that social media, especially Facebook and Twitter are for large consumer brands. While a lot of these well-known brand giants have embraced social media and are seeing its numerous viral benefits, small businesses should not shy away from social media. 

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed 18 Rules of Community Engagement: The Video June 10, 2009 in 18 rules of community engagement Okay, it’s my first stab at a video for this blog.  days ago This one caught my attention: Junk research, shabby journalism and social media. I shot it in my kitchen using my BlackBerry very close to midnight.  18 Rules of Community Engagement, by Angela Connor from Angela Connor on Vimeo. Attitude is everything.

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed The Value of Getting Book Reviews on Twitter June 13, 2009 in 18 rules of community engagement , Book marketing | Tags: Book marketing , book review , twitter , twitviews Amazon book reviews are great and so are complete blog posts devoted solely to your creative prose. Social media has opened up many doors. days ago This one caught my attention: Junk research, shabby journalism and social media.

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed Talk about some serious Facebook advertising… June 16, 2009 in social media | Tags: Hawthorne , Jada Pinkett Smith , Saving Grace Have you seen the TNT media blitz on Facebook today? wonder if those ad dollars were taken from a traditional media campaign, or if networks now have a new line item labeled: Facebook. It seemed as though Jada Pinkett-Smith was following me all over the place. Agreed?

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed Building Community Through Excellent Customer Service June 23, 2009 in Community Building , social media | Tags: customer service , Freshbooks , Jon Spenceley Less than 24 hours after creating a Freshbooks Account to bill for a recent consultation and presentation, I received a follow up call from Jon Spenceley. days ago This one caught my attention: Junk research, shabby journalism and social media.

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed What you need to know about community building: A special invitation June 27, 2009 in Book marketing , Community Building , social media | Tags: "guerilla marketing association" , 18 rules of community engagement Consider this a special invitation. days ago This one caught my attention: Junk research, shabby journalism and social media. Parker. million readers and translated into 37 languages.

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed The Community Building Aspects of Internet Marketing: An Interview with Phyllis Zimbler Miller July 13, 2009 in social media , social media marketing | Tags: "author interview" , "internet marketing" , "Miller Mosaic LLC" , "phyllis zimbler miller" , "Yael K. And now social media marketing has expanded on this concept to create a global village where we can all share our recommendations.

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed Dear United Airlines: Build Community Around This Dave Carroll Catastrophe July 17, 2009 in Reputation management | Tags: "Dave carroll" , "united Airlines" , "United Breaks Guitars" , YouTube Dear United Airlines: You messed up big. days ago This one caught my attention: Junk research, shabby journalism and social media. You know it. couldn’t help it. They completely dwarf your numbers. Seriously. Comment heavily.

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed Moderating youth communities requires eye for detail July 21, 2009 in online communities , teens and tweens The good folks over at eModeration have impressed me once again with their amazing insight into what it takes to successfully moderate communities populated with teens and tweens. days ago This one caught my attention: Junk research, shabby journalism and social media. Alarmed yet? Wait, there’s more.

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed Use Current Events to Engage Communities July 24, 2009 in Community Engagement Community managers have to stay on top of current events. days ago This one caught my attention: Junk research, shabby journalism and social media. If you know what’s going on in the world around you, you will always have fodder to successfully engage the masses. Start with current events and you can’t go wrong. Attitude is everything.

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed Community enthusiasts talk openly and honestly about engaging communities August 1, 2009 in Community Engagement | Tags: "Bryan Person" , "Sonny Gill" , "Whole Foods" , #cmtychat , Community management , Friendfeed I had the opportunity to moderate the weekly conversation known as #CmtyChat yesterday, and what a great experience it was.  days ago This one caught my attention: Junk research, shabby journalism and social media.

But I expect to keep blogging about the enormous changes affecting media. days ago This one caught my attention: Junk research, shabby journalism and social media. Writing a book Contact Media Popular Industry Interviews Press Speaking Tips Meta Register Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.com 6 comments Comments feed for this article August 6, 2009 at 4:53 pm Michelle Wow, this post really caught my attention! Love your articles on hyperlocal media. GrowthSpur , is a company that provides tools and ad networks to help local Web sites succeed. del.icio.us

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed The Power of Personal Communities and Why ESPN Could Feel Threatened August 5, 2009 in social networking | Tags: ESPN , personal branding , social media guidelines Don’t you think for a New York minute that the new crackdown on social networking by ESPN is all about control. It is actually what serves news organizations in the social media space and why many are exploiting it in the first place.

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed Here’s how one web designer deals with negative comments August 6, 2009 in Reputation management | Tags: "blog comments" , "negative comments" , internet trolls , troll This is a guest post from Heidi Cool, a web strategist and designer based in the Cleveland area. days ago This one caught my attention: Junk research, shabby journalism and social media. Difficult? Impossible? What I do censor is spam. Do tell.

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed A grateful online community August 11, 2009 in Community management | Tags: community manager , online communities Never underestimate the benefits that being a member of your community provides others. days ago This one caught my attention: Junk research, shabby journalism and social media. As community managers we focus so much on our daily, monthly, weekly and even annual goals. That may be true. Serious swagger!

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed Watch out for long-time community members August 13, 2009 in Community Building | Tags: Community Building , successful online communities , troublemakers In most online communities, there are those who’ve been there from the very beginning. days ago This one caught my attention: Junk research, shabby journalism and social media. That lead you to believe others would follow suit, and they did. Serious swagger!

Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Twitter hashtag tutorial July 28, 2009 What are those crazy hashtags in Twitter # and what do you do with them?  In this tutorial, I show you different ways to find them and how to participate in the conversation. Have a wonderful weekend!! Only a few hours left to be an Early Bird. Then you will be a late bird. And no one likes that.

Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Facebook Fan Page Limitations July 31, 2009 Facebook Fan Pages are different than the user pages – find out some of the limitations and some work arounds that will help you get started. Have a wonderful weekend!! Only a few hours left to be an Early Bird. Then you will be a late bird. And no one likes that.

Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe What the Heck is FriendFeed? August 11, 2009 You may have heard some things about FriendFeed but you still don’t know what it is. Who really knows? Do you need it? All this and more in my video: Also you may have heard that Facebook just bought FriendFeed.com for $50million. Stay tuned for more information on this development.

Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Facebook Hide Feature August 18, 2009 Are you annoyed with crazy Facebook people who post 20 times a day but you don’t want to “unfriend&# them? Well there is a great Hide feature that you can use. It also gets rid of those irritating games and quizes. Check it out in my latest video. Have a wonderful weekend!!

Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Facebook Privacy Settings August 19, 2009 Here’s how to keep your Facebook profile more private. Control what you share with others and even block some users from seeing your posts. Have a wonderful weekend!! Only a few hours left to be an Early Bird. Then you will be a late bird. And no one likes that.

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Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Facebook Notifications September 2, 2009 Here’s a handy little thing in Facebook that’s a little hidden – Facebook Notifications. Now this only works on user pages – not on Fan Pages – which is a bummer but that doesn’t make it less handy! Check it out. Have a wonderful weekend!! And no one likes that.

Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Social Media Pep Talk September 8, 2009 Ok this post is partly inspired by my friend Melani Ward who has a great post on Twitter [link] but it’s also somewhere we’ve all been in Social Media and problably business in general.  Well you can do it, baby!  Don’t compare yourself to anyone else. 

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Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Tweetdeck Follower Count September 15, 2009 If you are using Tweetdeck to organize your Twitter followers, here is a handy tip. You can view the number of followers people have by going to the settings tab. Have a wonderful weekend!! Only a few hours left to be an Early Bird. Then you will be a late bird. And no one likes that.

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Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Twitter Street Walking October 4, 2009 Welcome to the first of a series of posts I’m going to be doing. Andrea Leave a Comment Previous post: 30 Days to Social Media Mastery now available! took to the streets to do some Investigative Reporting and it wasn’t pretty. Basically no one. Come back for more!

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Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Twitter Street Walking – part 3 October 9, 2009 Yes, Grandma Mary hits the streets of Boulder again to find tweeters. This time I find @lindsaysboulderdeli who is seeing major benefits to tweeting. Follow them for great coupon deals. Unfortunately we didn’t get that on film because we were vacating the area. And no one likes that.

Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe How to add an Opt-in box to your Facebook Fan Page October 12, 2009 If you have an e-mail newsletter or special offer to get new subscribers to your e-mail list, you will definitely want to put an Opt-in box on your Facebook Fan Page. This handy little video shows you how easy it is to add. You did a good job with this video, as always.

Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Twitter Street Walking – Part 4 October 13, 2009 Yes we have the 4th and final (for now) installment of Twitter Street Walking. Share and Enjoy: Tagged as: Twitter , twitter street walking Leave a Comment Previous post: How to add an Opt-in box to your Facebook Fan Page Next post: Social Media – Just Don’t Do It!

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Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Facebook Changes October 26, 2009 Facebook has done it again. Don’t they know we don’t like change? It’s very upsetting. But since they have gone ahead and done it, here are the details on what has changed in my handy video. You need to know the difference between the Live Feed and the News Feed. And no one likes that.

Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe How NOT to Get Banned From Twitter October 28, 2009 Yes, it can happen to you! It happened to Grandma Mary earlier this week. went to log into my Twitter account and was shocked to see this message “Your account has been suspended for suspicious activity&#. saw my 10,000 follower count put back to 0. Luckily I had my bifocals.

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Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Facebook Live Feed changes November 4, 2009 I know these Facebook changes have thrown people off. personally have had to up my meds since Facebook went with the Live Feed and the News Feed. In this tutorial I show you how to change your Facebook page so you are seeing just Status Updates. It just makes it a lot easier.

Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe How to Import Your RSS Feed into your Facebook Wall November 6, 2009 Update – I used to recommend using the Notes feature to pull in your RSS Feed from your blog, but now I recommend the Networked Blogs application.  Leave a Comment Previous post: Facebook Live Feed changes Next post: SEO and Social Media? So handy.

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Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Twitter and LinkedIn sittin in a tree… November 17, 2009 If you haven’t already heard, LinkedIn and Twitter are in loooovve.  link] Share and Enjoy: Tagged as: linkedin tutorial , Twitter Leave a Comment Previous post: SEO and Social Media? It’s really easy to get set up.  So don’t fret. 

Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Stop and Back Awaaayy from the Social Media November 30, 2009 We all need to take breaks from time to time.  Don’t worry about taking some time off from Social Media.  Social Media will be there when you get back. People aren’t going to forget about you.  We are all so busy. 

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Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Update Facebook Fans changes December 8, 2009 Facebook just keeps making changes and now they’ve moved where you can send an Update to your Facebook Fans. Where the heck did it go? And where do your Updates go? Grandma Mary tells all. It’s really annoying that Facebook continues to make changes without notification.

Home Consulting Products and Workshops Boulder Social Media Training How To Use Twitter To Grow Your Business How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business Sink or Swim Webinar Facebook Tutorial Twitter Tutorial About Grandma Mary Contact me Subscribe Facebook Application Permissions December 10, 2009 Here is something everyone needs to do! Make sure you are controlling what applications have access to your Facebook info. Because sometimes you don’t realize what applications you have given permission to your account! Watch the video for more information. Thanks!

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