I’ve been curious about the online/web-based options for learning yoga, or deepening a yoga practice. Not to mention teacher training options for people who aspire to become teachers, but can’t afford the thousands of dollars required to achieve Level 1 certification via the usual means. Or even specialized classes to help teachers advance to the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Social Media for Business'
Blogging Is Dead. Oh, Really?
March 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Social Media for Business
You can always tell when it’s been a slow news day. There’s yet another provocative news story, pronouncing the death of email, or blogging, or Twitter. You name it. Several weeks ago the New York Times wrote that blogging among young people was on the decline, according to research from the Pew Center’s Internet and American […]
Serendipity, or Applied Intelligence?
June 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Social Media for Business, Tools & Technology
To help you get more value from my postings, I added the LinkWithin widget to my blogs today. This widget can automatically suggest, for any new post, related stories found elsewhere within the blog. I’m still getting a feel for what it considers to be “related” — and am already chuckling at some of its […]
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Why Does Facebook Make It So Difficult?
May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Social Media for Business, Tools & Technology
I’m delighted to get back some control over my privacy settings in Facebook. Unlike Facebook’s founder, I believe I own my relationships, and I should be in complete control over who gets to see what. Having said that, I’m upset that Facebook forces me to waste so much time monitoring my privacy settings and profile options. […]
Facebook Asks, Where Is Home? Who Are You?
April 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Social Media for Business
Identity is complicated, as I discovered when filling out a Facebook profile. Even seemingly simple questions like where is your hometown are not easy when you’ve lived in multiple places. For married women, there’s also the complication of which name (or combination of names) to use… Hometowns Facebook lets you name only one hometown. Its database […]
Having Fun, The “Social-Techno” Way
April 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Social Media for Business, Tools & Technology
Today I managed to have fun while working. At long last I set up a personal Facebook page and uploaded some family photos. At the same time I transferred files and apps from a 2-year-old MacBook Pro to a brand new MacBook Pro (one of the models released earlier this week). I got the first […]
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The Company You Keep
January 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · Back to Basics, Social Media for Business
Reflecting back on 2009 and looking ahead to 2010, I came across a great quote that got me thinking: You are the same today as you are going to be five years from now, except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read. — Source: Charles Jones, cited in Attracting […]
But Where’s the Conversation?
October 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Social Media for Business
The hype around social media as conversation has become deafening. Much of the hyperbole comes from agencies and consultants who have seized upon social media as the next wave; their motivation is self-serving, of course. Promoting their credentials as social media experts enables them Print PDF
Tags: B2B marketing·blogging·conversational marketing·personal branding·social media
Nice Update from TweetDeck
September 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · Social Media for Business, Tools & Technology
My PC now sports a nice update from TweetDeck. It’s smart enough to shorten URLs automatically, and supports drag-and-drop of photos to Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. Nice time-saving features… Print PDF
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Social Media’s Nasty Little Secret
June 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Marketing, Social Media for Business
There’s a very real obstacle to successful social media engagement, and that’s the fact that “most companies and agencies were not built for dialogue,” according to Matt Dickman of Fleishman Hillard. It’s not just a problem of scale. Most businesses lack the cultures for open-minded listening and responding, and cultures tend to take a long time […]
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