I’ve had a post sitting in draft for a long time about this topic. But it was a brief email exchange with a client that gave me the fire to finish it! This client has a website that supports blogging (yay WordPress) but she was not ready to take the …
When I say going mobile, I am not talking about getting a smartphone or a tablet. I’m talking about making your website mobile friendly – for smart phones or tablets. Smartphone and tablet technology are changing the way that people access the web. You can make sure that you’re not losing the mobile market by installing a WordPress plugin.
Before Christmas, I was alerted to a story in the Globe and Mail about Sweden’s decision to invite citizens to tweet from the national Twitter account on behalf of Sweden (link posted at the end of my article). The national twitter account is @Sweden – in case you want to …
BlogWorld LA 2011 hosted some of the most influential bloggers and social media people in the digital sphere. It was hard to distill the absolute best sound bytes from so many great speakers. In fact I bought a virtual ticket so that I can listen again to blogging and social media advice.
Have you heard of this event? It’s Blog World Expo and New Media Event. At BlogWorld Expo LA, I’m going to “learn how to create better content, grow my brand, my audience and revenue online from the world’s most successful New Media experts & Social Media innovators.” Sounds pretty exciting, …
Google+ is the latest social media platform. I’ve spent some time alone learning but yesterday, I hung out face-to-face with two friends/colleagues and we learned more about Google+ in our two hours than I have as I’ve wheeled around on my own. Here’s some of what we learned together…
In my last post, I suggested that the book Groundswell was a great way to begin a conversation about the importance of social media both in business and in the world. So that has been on my mind. Today, I saw an image that brought me back to online engagement and how does a business do it? The all important mantra is: you need to be where your people are.
Recently I read the book Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. I know… a little late since it was published in 2008 but still worth the read three years later. I recommend this book to anyone interested in learning how technology …
I’d been in business writing for a long time. I’d written proposals, customer communications and marketing material – among other things. So I thought that blogging was going to be easy. But you know what? It wasn’t initially. I tried to figure out my stumbling blocks and I realized that there …
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One inspired girl – a big dash of social media, social activism, motivation, traditional media and what do you get? One of many, many success stories of how social media and the Internet can make a difference in the world. My daughter’s story is just one of many. Imagine the impact if each person who learned about Tom’s One Day Without Shoes spread the word to their friends and contacts.
First of all, a big THANK YOU to Matthew Yuill and Melissa Feeney and the WordCamp Toronto 2010 volunteers for all their hard work organizing WordCamp Toronto 2010 last weekend at Centennial College. For a front-end, gaining-in-knowledge WordPress convert, I learned a lot at WordCamp. I appreciated Jeremy Wright’s keynote …
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Last week, I was challenged by someone on Twitter, to update my blog, with the promise that he/she would drop by to visit once the blog was updated. I waffled back and forth between excitement that someone had taken the time to look at my Twitter profile and website and …
