My Social Media Checklist
I read a couple of interesting articles this week, and I’d like to share them with you. First, there’s this one from Brad Blackman called Write Blog Posts Faster with a Template or a Checklist. In it, Brad simply lists […]
Improved Business Analytics for Twitter and Pinterest
Analytics. It’s what makes us smarter, better at what we do. Analytics helps us to learn what works, and what doesn’t work. Often, however, when a new social network starts up, building in analytics is the last thing on their mind. […]
Why It’s So Important to Respond Quickly on Social Media [Infographic]
Last week, I wanted to take my son to a baseball game. I checked online, and it looked like the game might have been sold out, but there was nothing on the website that indicated that is was categorically sold […]
Twitter In The Classroom
It’s ironic: there is an online source from which many people get their daily information, and yet this tool is often considered to be “too distracting” to have a place in the classroom. I’m a teacher, and it’s a debate […]
Twitter Ads: Worth the Investment?
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 […]
Twitter Update: What You Need to Know
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 […]
Is Twitter’s “Favourite” Becoming the New “Like”?
I got asked a question by Susan, one of my followers, last week. She was wondering what the appropriate way to thank someone who favourites one of your tweets was. I’ll get back to my answer in a sec, but […]
How to Use Twitter to Enhance Your Presentations
A couple weeks back, I did an interview with Carla Rieger for my #BuildYrBrand series. Carla is a pro speaker and a speaker coach, and she talked to us about how to get out on the speaking circuit. Well, then […]
How to Spot Fake Followers on Twitter
I get new followers on Twitter (@rebeccacoleman) every day–usually somewhere between 5 and a dozen. I’m pretty careful to check on each new follower, because I want to see if they are someone I should follow back, or someone I […]
Vine Introduces Vanity URLS: web profiles coming
Vine, that six-second, endlessly-looping video service owned by Twitter, has just launched vanity URLs for your account. You can now grab your user name. Your new Vine URL will be vine.co/yourusername. This means, of course, that web profiles are in […]