Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 50 Ways to Get More People to Like your Facebook Page | Facebook Tips and Tricks – FanPageFlow. http://ow.ly/9jBz0 Big list of 200 “Write for us” pages. http://ow.ly/9kmjE The mounting minuses of Google+. It’s… Read More
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Check your Pinterest influence score with PinClout
Pinterest, the shiny new bauble in the social media world, now has its own “influence score,” similar to the Klout score. It’s PinClout and it will rank your influence on a scale of 1 to 100. It measures factors such as how many followers you have, how many people you follow, and how many likes you have accumulated.… Read More
Dog Tweets: How entrepreneurs decide how to post on LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. How entrepreneurs decide how to post on LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter. http://ow.ly/8MvYM 4 easy tactics for becoming a must-follow account on Twitter. http://ow.ly/8MHte 5 Ways Writers Can Break Out of the Tired Old Social… Read More
Will Flickr allow this kind of photo promotion?
Chris Stephenson of Madrid, Spain, asks: “I’d really like to use Flickr to host a competition. I’d ask people to submit photos of a variety of airports, highways, bridges and all types of buildings that the company I work for has or is currently managing or constructing. “Potentially, I could offer a prize of photo… Read More
Facebook page needs to attract women who laugh at themselves
Diane Kline of St. Louis, MO, writes: “I am the co-author of QuirkOut! Crazy Things Women do to Stay Sane. It’s a blog and weekly column, for women 20 through death, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper on Sundays—sort of a Martha Stewart meets Tina Fey. “We all have QuirkOut! moments. We just named them.… Read More
5 Twitter resolutions that will help you tweet smarter
Here are five things to consider doing differently on Twitter this year. They’ll help you gain traction, see a bigger return on your investment of time, generate more retweets and gain more followers. If you can’t do all of these regularly, at the very least, start doing some of them once a week, and then increase… Read More
Ask visitors who complete a web form to tweet about you
Website owners who ask visitors to complete an online form, and then simply thank them for doing so, are missing a powerful opportunity for a little publicity, and possibly some extra sales. If visitors have completed the form because they want more information about your product or service, or they’re asking a question, or they want… Read More
How long before we’re branded, like cattle, with a “reputation score”?
If you’re on Twitter, Twitter has assigned you a “reputation score.” It has a system in place to gauge who you follow and who the people you follow follow. It uses that information to suggest the “Who to Follow” avatars in the right-hand column of your profile. So far, your score is still a secret. … Read More
Add volunteer experience to your LinkedIn profile
You can now beef up your LinkedIn profile by adding any volunteer experience, a list of causes that you care about, and any organizations you support. After all, volunteering is as good for your career as it is for those you help. And your volunteer efforts are one more way to generate publicity. Here’s how to add this new… Read More
How can a psychologist market on Facebook and Twitter?
Dr. Karen Hoving of Aurora, Colo., writes: “I have a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and specialize in two areas: Bipolar Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. “Here’s what I’m doing right now to market myself: A Facebook page. A website. Two blogs: The Couch Trip for general psychology and “Shrinking” Chronic Illness. A monthly… Read More