Why Twitter Is Like Online Dating
My dear friend Cat, who teaches at a local acting school (and runs Biz Books), recently did a giveaway of one of my books to her students. The contest was, they had to get on twitter, and one of them […]
My New Fave WP Plugin: Click to Tweet
Here’s my social media philosophy: make it stupid easy. If you want people to respond positively to your calls to action, you need to make it easy for them to do so. Click To Tweet By that I mean, if […]
The Customer as CEO: an Interview with Chuck Wall
In one of my other (many) lives, I’m a food blogger, and I was recently assigned to write a piece on restaurants with great patios. I reached out to several of these restaurants via Twitter, and was surprised at the amount of time it […]
State of the Union: Non-Profit Online Fundraising
A new report was released last week called The 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. Put out by the Non-Profit Technology Network and M+R Strategic Services, it looked at hundreds of non-profit and charity organizations in the States in every non-profit sector, […]
Amanda Palmer: The Art of Asking
This is a brand-new TED talk, and I wanted to share it with you. Just watch this. I cried buckets. It’s beautiful. It’s about art and social media and crowdfunding and a whole bunch of other things I love. In […]
Vine: Video Tweets
I‘m rolling my eyes a tiny bit as I write this. One of the exciting parts of my job is seeking out new social media to tell you about. It’s also the bane of my existence, because, you have to […]
Keek
URL: www.keek.com What it is: Keek would be the result if YouTube and Twitter got together and had a baby. They are short (max 36 seconds) video clips that you take of yourself talking directly to camera and then upload […]
The Art of Marketing
Inspiration. New knowledge. Those were the two things I was looking for when I went to The Art of Marketing conference on November 27. I’d been excited about this for weeks. There are those of you out there who will […]
What’s the Benchmark for Customer Service on Twitter?
As Social Media continues to mature as a marketing practice and evolve, it is becoming more and more of a customer service tool. I think that using Twitter and Facebook for customer service will eventuallly become more popular than using […]
How to Create a Twitter Cover
Yesterday, Twitter made a couple of big announcements. They are updating the look of everyone’s profile, and they’re also rolling out an update to their iPad and iPhone apps. The main change in your Twitter profile is that you can […]