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social media

Facebook profile backup with SocialSafe

February 22, 2010

Do you have nightmares about your Facebook profile going away and losing your friends, photos, profile and wall status updates? You’re not alone!
If you were on Facebook at all this past weekend you may have experienced a certain level of panic as things got wonky (prompting some good subject matter for that nightmare.) They were [...]

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Does social media equal anti-social?

August 12, 2009

As I was at the grocery store the other day, a young woman in front of me was busy texting as she slowly put her items up on the counter. The girl behind the register worked as quickly as she could given her customer’s unwillingness to put the cell phone away for a few minutes. [...]

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Google Voice invitations on the way

June 28, 2009

People who signed up for Google Voice are starting to receive invitations to set up their new accounts. Google Voice allows users to have one phone number that can be re-routed to ring at any number of other phones. There are a number of ways it can be set up. For example, it can be [...]

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Are you shouting "buy my widgets"?

June 23, 2009

Imagine you’re hanging out with some friends and along comes this person you don’t know, who gets right in your face and blurts out . . .
“HEY YOU! My widgets are on sale today. When you buy two, you’ll get one free. Go to my website right now and buy some!”
If you’re like me, you’re [...]

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Social media teleclasses available for download

June 2, 2009

Over the past few months I’ve been doing social media teleclasses as part of the monthly teleclass series at Six Figure Pet Sitting Academy. The first one, which was a huge success was a general overview of social media, and in the second one I helped people understand Twitter and how it can be used [...]

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Social media for pet businesses

April 3, 2009

Social Media: How to Use Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
to Make Money in your Business
A Teleclass with Therese Kopiwoda, of PetsitUSA.com
and Kristin Morrison, of Six Figure Pet Sitting Academy
Join us April 28 for a teleclass on using social media
to give your business a boost!
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Knowing how to put social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to [...]

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Has social media killed 'undivided attention'?

March 18, 2009

In the past when someone gave a presentation, some of the things he or she had to compete with were people talking to each other, doodling on their notepads, reading books or magazines, or even some of the audience members taking a nap. Things like this can be extremely annoying for any presenter, but they [...]

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Twitter rules have your head spinning?

January 22, 2009

If you’re new to Twitter and are trying to play by the rules, it can be a bit daunting! There are, of course, the official Twitter rules that you need to be mindful of. The folks at Twitter make it clear they dont’t want people doing slimy things like impersonating others, violating copyright laws, threatening [...]

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Even church can get social media

January 11, 2009

The church I go to now and then, Gateway Church, is pretty cool. It’s non-demoninational and way non-preachy, but that’s only part of what makes it so appealing. The pastors are real people, just like anybody else, and understand what it’s like to live in the real world with the Internet, Blackberries, iTunes, podcasts…you know…technology! [...]

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It's not always about the middle-aged white guy

January 8, 2009

It used to be that journalists and reporters in main stream media (news papers, radio, and television) were the main sources of news that affected so many of us. That’s not the case anymore.  Chris Brogan talks about how bloggers and others are also getting the news out these days.Yesterday he went to a Panasonic [...]

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