New Facebook Timeline Rolls Out for Personal Profiles
Posted by Kimberly on December 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment
As promised, Facebook has made changes to the personal profile once again. Your personal profile account is now a “Timeline.” The Timeline was announced back in August. As the new Timeline rolls out, users will be prompted to change over to the Timeline. One nice feature about this change is that users will be given [...]
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Wine Tasting + Twitter= Great Fun
Posted by Kimberly on May 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment
So much of what we hear is that Twitter is great for business networking, engagement, visibility and making connections with others in your industry. And this is true. However, Twitter can also be a tool for having fun socially (imagine that, using a social network socially?) I’ve participated in and moderated several Twitter chats in [...]
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Twitter Upgrades Advanced Search- Finally
Posted by Kimberly on April 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The news out today on the Twitter blog is that Twitter has finally upgraded their Advanced Search feature and moved it from search.twitter.com to the be housed within Twitter’s main search feature. When you do a search on Twitter now, then it will bring up the link for Advanced Search. They have also now added [...]
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Social Media Round Up
Just a couple of quick notes about some posts you might want to check out. The first is an interview that I did over on Business Darlings about my thoughts on the current state of social media. I answer questions about How to measure success in social media Where I see social media going What [...]
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Assessing Your Social Media Needs
As a small business owner or solo entrepreneur you are faced with the on-going challenge of how to market your business. Very few small businesses have unlimited budgets available so any funds spent on marketing really need to be effective in landing additional sales or leads or ultimately have some value to the overall growth [...]
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Tools for Social Media Measurement
This post is just a quick overview of some free tools out there to help measure some of your social media efforts. 1) Facebook Insights will provide some good in-depth information for a fan page. You can download these date into Excel or you can snapshot the graphs they offer. (keep in mind though that [...]
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How To Set Up a Twitter Account
Posted by Kimberly on November 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
As a Social Media Virtual Assistant, I’ve set up many, many Twitter accounts. Some for myself (I think I have 5 of them…) and many for my clients. So, it’s really second nature to me and most of the time, I don’t think twice about how to do it. However, for many small business owners [...]
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Facebook Announces Deals for Local Business
Facebook announced this week the launch of Facebook Deals for local business which ties in directly with their Facebook Places feature. Sounds remarkably similar to Foursquare but Facebook has a much, much larger user base. Will this blow Foursquare and other geo-location services out of the game? This is yet another feature that local businesses [...]
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Hootsuite As Your Social Media Dashboard
Posted by Kimberly on August 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
There are several different options available to help you manage multiple social media accounts at once. Among the most popular are Tweetdeck, Seesmic and Hootsuite. Depending on your needs and desire for access, then you might consider each one of these for different reasons. All of them have a web version and apps for iPhone. [...]
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Social Media Doesn’t Run on Auto Pilot (and Neither Do I)
Posted by Kimberly on June 17, 2010 · 3 Comments
Any small business or entrepreneur anywhere near an Internet connection these days, will have heard about the importance of using social media as a marketing tool. Many will not know the ins and outs of how to go about getting started or keeping up with their social media efforts. What’s more is that small business [...]
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