Five Starting Points to Build Your Online Presence
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Last month I spoke to the Triangle Area Freelancers on how to use social media to market yourself. The group is primarily freelance writers and they had some excellent questions including:
Should I get on Twitter?
Where do I start with social media?
Blogger or Wordpress, which is better and should I pay to host my site?
I have [...]
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What the Heck Do I Do? A Lesson in using LinkedIn
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Sometimes you get so engaged and excited that you forget some of the chaos you cause by going 90 miles an hour. I had an interesting conversation with a former co-worker who brought to my attention how this was happening to me and causing confusion about my company’s brand. The conversation centered on some confusion [...]
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Twitter and LinkedIn Integration, Good or Bad?
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LinkedIn has jumped into the integration fray the past few weeks. Most recently the business network site has integrated with Twitter to allow posting between the two sites. This is a big step for LinkedIn since the status feature of the site was poorly used in the past. Many users rarely updated [...]
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Deep Fried Mashup and Branded Communities at SMC Triangle
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Last week the Triangle Social Media Club had two guest speakers, Karlie Justus (@karliej) and Jason Peck (@jasonpeck). I’ve had the pleasure of meeting both the speakers and interacting with them on Twitter over the past several months. I was glad to see Karlie speak about the NC State Fair since I had been trying to [...]
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Social Media Tools and Network Inventory
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Since I’m a marketing geek I’m always interested in new tools, networks and other communication platforms. Over the past few years I have investigated and used many of the new social media networks and tools to see how well they worked. However I realize now that I have too many accounts and some of them [...]
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Facebook Fan Pages Offer New Way To Connect
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Last week I attended the Triangle Social Media Club @SMCTriangle meeting at Calvert Holdings in Cary. The topic was Facebook and personal branding and the demo led by Jeff Cohen @dgtlpapercuts was excellent. The discussion centered on how FB groups and fan pages interact with users in different ways and the pros and [...]
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My Top Three Social Media Networks
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I was at a meeting last week where the speakers were asked to list their top three social media sites. Three seemed a somewhat easy number since there are so many social media sites popping up everyday. But when I thought about it, limiting it to three and justifying the choices is more [...]
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Social Media Case Study: Triangle AMA
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Over the past few weeks I’ve written several articles about member based associations using social media. I thought today’s post would be a good time to reflect on a case study that I personally have been working on over the past year. I serve on the board of the Triangle Chapter of [...]
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