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Review and Update Your Social Profiles
If you have been using social media for a while, you likely created profiles long ago. If you are like me, you rarely (if ever) review and update the content of your profiles and bios online. After, you are short on time. You want to use your online time to create...
5 Tips about Connecting
These five tips focus on connecting with others. Social media is all about relationships. If you want to build an online presence for yourself or for your business, connecting to others in relationship must be a core priority. You can implement these tips during the...
Share Something Off-Topic
If you are new to using social media, you may wonder what kind of content to share when trying to connect with others online. Or, if you've been around social media channels for a while, you may feel like people expect you to share content about a particular subject...
Make an Introduction
Making introductions is a great way to help others find new relationships. You can do it casually, through a tweet. You can even introduce a bunch of friends to all your followers at once; that's the basis of the follow Friday movement. People use...
A Story about Deepening a Connection
Molly writes A Foreign Land. I'm not really sure how we found each other. I read through some of her tweets as I prepared to write this post and noticed that she retweeted me sometime in the middle of December.... so maybe that's when. (Molly, do you know? You'll have...
Deepen a Connection
Do you remember being a kid and running into your favorite teacher at the grocery store, walking with her husband and child? Suddenly, you could see her in an entirely different light. My teacher buys toilet paper and toothpaste. She likes the same kind of cereal I...
Find New Connections
In a recent post, I challenged you to spending 12 minutes each day connecting with others through social media. January 1, 2009 marked my entry into the world of social media through Facebook. I joined on New Year's Day and finding new connections through social media...
As You Start the New Year
If one of your resolutions is to increase your influence through social media in the New Year, remember one thing: Consistent, focused effort makes a difference. You may feel, already, that there is not enough time for all you want to accomplish in 2012, both online...
The Last Day of the Year
Today is the last day of the year and the last day of a week that some call the most productive week of the year. I'm not so sure that term fits for work-at-home moms like me. In fact, I'm not sure productivity is the highest goal during a school vacation. The week...
The Secret Power of Social Media
With Christmas less than a week away, I have been furiously finishing preparations: buying and wrapping gifts, planning menus, and sending packages and cards to family far away. I love seeing my daughters' excitement in giving to others. This season, more than...
The Facebook Timeline and Your Business
Earlier this week, I installed Facebook's new timeline feature on my Facebook profile. I didn't spend a lot of time exploring the new features. After all, I had work to do. I kept reminding myself to not to be distracted from my most important priorities. In case you...
What is Stopping You From Starting?
We all do it — we procrastinate about certain tasks or plans. We put off "that thing," transfer it from yesterday's to-do list to today's, telling ourselves that tomorrow (yes, tomorrow) we'll finally do "that thing." Then when tomorrow comes, we find something more...