If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Okay. This is weird. I am really, really bad at tooting my own horn–one of my favourite expressions is “the shoemaker’s children go barefoot.” Nevertheless, […]
I just finished teaching a class on blogging, and one really important thing you want to do after you’ve started your blog is to get some subscribers. Because of the nature of your blog, meaning that it’s a website, open […]
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote this post, called Why You Shouldn’t Use Hootsuite to Post to Your Facebook Page. In an effort to streamline how I posted to my networks (I manage several pages, and often post things […]
Today’s interview is a throw back. A throw way, way back, to a large island off the East Coast of Canada in the middle of the ocean. High school and I weren’t great friends. I did pretty well in school, […]
Let’s face it; there are a mind-bogglingly huge amount of social networks out there. It’s kinda (well, more than kinda) overwhelming. If you’re someone who only has a certain amount of time to commit to social media each day, you […]
You may be aware that Twitter has been using advertising as a means of monetization for almost three years, now. Or you may not. Ads are actually pretty subtle on Twitter. Twitter went public late last year (public means you can […]
How much time to do estimate you spend on social media per day? And I mean actual working time, not mucking about on Facebook, or taking the latest Buzzfeed quiz. Not that there’s anything wrong with do that, but I’m […]
The week before last, I was browsing away on Mashable (as you do) and saw a blog post announcing a big Twitter update. I was a bit confused, because I’d already had the update for a month at least. Not […]
We’re back this week with the series where I interview writers about their writing. I’ve known Mark Leiren-Young for quite a few years, now. We got introduced through our mutual friend Kennedy, and Babz Chula. Babz was in Mark’s film, […]
Today’s post is from guest contributor, Diana Gomez. Have you ever had the experience of shopping or otherwise doing business online, but you hesitated because you had no information about the merchant and you weren’t sure whether it was a […]