Is this about You? It’s not personal. This blog has featured a few articles on how to get noticed on Twitter or how not to get noticed on social media. To branch out to new topics, here are some points on not taking social media so personally and being authentic in your approach. Many use [...]
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Blogging, Social Media, Twitter
How is Your Re-tweet Mojo?
I wrote a post on 7 Ways to Get Re-tweeted and thought a follow-up post on the topic may be useful. I regularly check my stream to see what tweets get shared the most. By now, most of you may know that using quotes is very popular. I used to have ten quotes lined up [...]
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Blogging, Social Media, Twitter
How to NOT Get Someone’s Attention in Social Media
Generally, I do my best to focus on helpful and inspirational tips. That said, when I encounter a situation that some may experience, I like to share my point of view in case it’ll help. Some of my Twitter friends have inquired about gaining a better understanding of how to get the attention of social [...]
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Blogging, Social Media, Twitter
Nurturing Partnerships in Social Media
For the past two years, I have been working on my social media accounts, which includes building my community and connections by attending tweet-ups and conferences, as well as reassessing and fine tuning my content on my social media pages and my website. My blog is just slightly over one year young. For certain, the [...]
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What is the Recipe for a Great Blog Post?
My goal is always to attract new visitors to my blog while also keeping my current readers happy. I gauge responses and readership of my blog and try to create new content that is topical, timely and useful to what my readers may like to read. From time to time, I chose to stick [...]
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Blogging, Social Media, Twitter
Subjects and Content I Avoid on Social Networks
Social networking is a great way to connect and interact with other people on the internet. I am always looking to be helpful and promotional to others, but there are certain subjects and topics that you will not find in my feed. I have preferences that I like to stay true to, both in my [...]
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Blogging, Social Media, Twitter
How do you support your blogging community?
First of all, I would like to say thank you for the generous re-tweeting and sharing of my blog posts. It’s difficult for me to return the re-tweet favor due to high volumes of followers. As often as possible, I try to introduce a new person from my stream by re-tweeting them or sharing their [...]
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Blogging, Social Media, Twitter
An Expectation to Be ‘Young’ in Social Media?
Sean Garder, @2morrowknight, and I were recently discussing a tweet we came across (imagine that! ツ) that caught our attention. The tweet was an article from The Next Web entitled, “To work online or in new media, there’s an expectation for you to be ‘young’” written by @Zee. The article states, “To work in tech, [...]
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Blogging, Social Media, Twitter
10 Bloggers Share Their 2012 Blogging Formula
How do you decide how often to blog? It’s a fact that blogging can definitely burn you out fast if you’re not careful! So when you do get burnt-out, take a mini-break in order to refocus your efforts and then return to the scene refreshed. I took three weeks off at the end of this [...]
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Blogging, Social Media, Twitter
What Changes Will You Make to Your Social Media Approach in 2012?
Don’t we often ask this question? This very thought came to me as I was taking some time off from blogging at the end of the year. As I had some downtime to reflect on life events which happened in 2011, I decided that I wanted to see more quality in my life, versus quantity. [...]
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