Social Media

The Care and Feeding of Twitter

(and yes – cleaning the twitter-litter, too) You can listen to this post here –> Care and Feeding of Twitter I taught several New to Twitter Workshops last year. Small business owners mostly, ranging from solopreneuers, to mid-size nationally reaching publishing companies. Everyone is always so excited to finally be taking flight in the Twitterverse [...]


Pulling a Rabbit out of My (social media) Hat

Pulling a Rabbit out of My (social media) Hat

Listen to this post – here –> MagicTricks Asking the question: Why do I have to do magic tricks to get a client? You would think by now, with all the main-stream media around the marketing power of Twitter and Facebook, that I wouldn’t have to resort to magic tricks to get a new clients, [...]


State of the Internet by Jesse

State of the Internet by Jesse

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo. JESS3 designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010.


Social Media as Only Bill (billtvmacon) Can Do

I love Bill. He is my touchstone for sanity. I turn to him on YouTube almost daily. In this episode he discusses social media and old people – two of my favorite subjects (being I’m paid by it and am one…).  Here you go.


What Will I Find Here? How-to Tutorials!

What Will I Find Here? How-to Tutorials!

I love technology. I am a geeky girl and a technology cheerleader. I’ve been this way all my life. Over the last 30 years, even when I made a living singing, performing and teaching, I used the most advanced and accessible recording and presentation technologies of the time. Some call me a “technology cheerleader,” as I [...]


“OMG Why Are We Continuing to Market Using These…” David Meerman Scott

"OMG Why Are We Continuing to Market Using These..." David Meerman Scott

I originally published this back in early December. I just watched it again with my husband. It’s still very powerful, especially for businesses who haven’t made the leap past their fear of social media. It’s worth another listen. Enjoy. The New Rules of Marketing and PR keynote presentation and Q&A session delivered by David Meerman [...]


Tweepi Saves My Day

Tweepi Saves My Day

This is a Twitter 101 Post – those of you who are Twitter Power users you might want to read through and make comments about your experience with this particular situation…<hint> Twitter Tool: Tweepi http://tweepi.com/ saved my day.   Those of you who have bumped up against that 2000 Twitter ceiling know the frustration of trying [...]


Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of ‘SixthSense’ technology

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop”. About 6 minutes in it’s all Harry Potter!! This man is my hero. I love his work and he’s making it all [...]


Music + Social Media Info

I used a wonderful service called Embedr to create this player for my favorite social media videos – sit back – enjoy! Think of the possibilities! Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com


1790% Increase – Why Keywords are Important

1790% Increase - Why Keywords are Important

Recently, I helped a new client design a few tweets for the upcoming Thanksgiving week. She wanted to schedule them and be able to walk away and enjoy her family. We spent an hour designing a few interesting tweets that linked directly to her services on her new website. She is an established healer/consultant with [...]


I love Photography + Social Media

I love photography. I love social media. Put them together in one post and I’m very happy. The one below is from a wonderful site called Light Stalking http://www.lightstalking.com/storm-photos Called  Thunderstorm in Paradise by slack12 Their site is based on a generous business model of sharing, teaching, commenting – a model of great use of [...]


3Headed Power Tools

Power Tool for News Junkies! Would you like to visually scan through literally hundreds of newspapers inside one interface? I created a very short tutorial on how to use FastFlip from Google Labs. This month’s Featured Power Tool is screenr http://screenr.com Create a quick video tutorial on some aspect of your website – or – [...]


Short Tutorial – FastFlip by Google Labs

Google Labs created something for those of you who can’t get enough of the news – and like the visual idea of scanning through newspapers and journals – FastFlip. Please let me know if this tutorial helps you in any way. Thanks.


Free Power Tools for Social Media Marketing

You might need to watch this several times –It was created by Erik Qualman. Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the [...]


Short Tutorial – TwitterAnalyzer.com for Marketing


Most Powerful Video I’ve Seen on Social Media

You might need to watch this several times —


New to Twitter Workshop – The Food Edition

New to Twitter Workshop – The Food Edition Fun times for all as we fast-track everyone on Twitter as ALL marketing examples will be delicious! This particular workshop is Online and Evening ONLY this go round. Open to those who have relationship to FOOD as their business or hobby.We will have radio show hosts, chefs, [...]


Starting Conversation In Twitter – Another Very Short Tutorial on using TwitterAnalyzer

If you follow this blog (you are getting my RSS feed on your Google Reader – right?) you know how much I like TwitterAnalyzer. This time it’s how to use the Groups Tab for finding people to start a conversation about creating Joint Ventures. This tutorial is LESS than 1:40 minutes!


Fun new tools for Auditory Learners

I’m always looking for new tools to bring a more human touch to websites. Here is something I ran into today. Both are from SitePal – one an audio player and the other an avatar player. I would suggest watching the video first. I created a test audio: and a test avatar – how funny [...]


Anatomy of a Good Tweet 101

Anatomy of a Good Tweet 101

Everyone says a “Tweet” is 140 characters. I say a GOOD Tweet is 120 characters because you want to leave room for one of the best things that happen on Twitter – the Re-Tweet (RT). The reason you want to leave room for the RT is the link is usually at the end of the [...]


Predictable Behavior with Video

Many people are using the system described below for engaging their email audiences with video. Because you can’t embed video in email (yet) this is the only way to do it. We are very preditable with links to video – as you can see by the numbers below. The other bit of reserach on video viewing shows [...]


Twitter Video

This is the best use of music to create an attraction-based marketing system I’ve seen! Dan Hollings is a Twenius! http://twitter.com/dhollings


It’s all the Rage right now for Audio Part of Webcasts

Recently, I discovered a new teleseminar service called MaestroConference. And so far I love it! I have clients who run webcasts anywhere from once to five times a month and I have been on this epic search for the perfect system for over two years! With Maestro, you can re-create the dynamics of a live workshop [...]


Twitter Strategy from Frank Furness

Fast-paced tutorial on a strategy to make money with Twitter. Frank travels around the world giving presentations and trainings on how to use technology. He is a pro. Enjoy. (take notes!!) You can find his main Twitter account at http://twitter.com/frankfurness   

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