All Entries Tagged With: "linkedin"
Social Media Engagement Tools: Part 1
Tweet Buffer What are Social Media Engagement Tools? Social Media Engagement tools are communication platforms where users take action and can respond, engage, interact or communicate directly on social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, blogs, forums, and more. Users provide the login credentials and offer OAuth permissions and can Tweet, comment on a blog post or respond to a [...]
Have Your Social Media Efforts Stalled?
Tweet Buffer What do you do when your social media efforts stall? It happens to everyone. It happened to me. Even with my outline of articles to write, I still get writer’s block. When that happens, I get less retweets, or links back to my blog which in turn causes my Klout score to go [...]
Support-A-Thon: Submit Your Free #Backlinks
Tweet Buffer What’s a Support-A-Thon? Well that was my question when I originally read the headline on Yomar Lopez’s blog. I don’t know if he originally came up with the idea of the Support-A-Thon, but he definitely encourages us to take advantage of this marketing idea. A Support-A-Thon is a free link exchange where participants [...]
How Social Media is Like High School
Tweet Buffer What? How is social media like high school? My son started back to school last week and as the rest of the counties here in Georgia start back to school next week, it gave me an idea to write a post of how social media is like high school. The similarities are closer [...]
LinkedIn Wants to Make You a Star! Wait… No They Don’t!
Tweet Buffer Did LinkedIn listen to their users? It’s no secret many social media platforms claim the rights of your material once it’s uploaded to use as they please. That’s the main reason I’ve removed most of my paintings from Flickr (paragraphs 9, 10, & 11), Picasa (paragraph 11), Facebook (paragraph 2) and the like. I recently read [...]
You Really CAN Unlink Your Accounts from Klout
Tweet Buffer I really AM trying to write about topics other than Klout, but someone forwarded a post to me the other day where the author indicated all your social media accounts could NOT be unlinked from Klout. More specifically, the writer indicated you could not unlink your Twitter account from Klout after the rest [...]
How To: Searching for a Job on LinkedIn
Tweet Buffer Are You Searching for a Job on LinkedIn? We all know LinkedIn has a lot of great benefits and in this economy, Searching for a Job on LinkedIn is probably one that is being utilized the most. Imagine if you had a personal connection at the company of your choice who can give you a [...]
The Google + Project: Facebook on Steroids?
Tweet Buffer The Google + Project Many people have been looking at Google +1 as the link for their website or blog that’s similar to Facebook’s “like” button, but after going through their tour watching videos I learned it does so much more. In order for Google +1 to be really effective, you need to [...]
Understanding the True Reach of Klout
Tweet Buffer Klout & Understanding It’s True Reach Let’s say you have an address book with 200 names in it, yet you only call or go out with 25 people on a regular basis. According to Klout, your True Reach would be 25. It’s understandable this would be a measureable statistic. If you are not reaching your [...]
Social Media Management from a Parent’s Perspective
Tweet Buffer I’m sitting here watching an old Bill Cosby skit on child birth and I don’t know why but it made me think of my social media accounts as my children because I have to monitor them, update them, interact with the individuals. Each of them are different and have to be treated differently. [...]
