Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – Who gives a tweet? Did you know that only about a third of tweets are worth reading? This is according to a study conducted by researchers at Georgia Tech, MIT and Carnegie Mellon. To figure out what people like to read on Twitter, the research team created a fun website called …
How to combat Facebook Fatigue [Daily Dose]
Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – How to combat Facebook Fatigue “One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room. Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.” – Seth Godin Unless you are completely new to the social media marketing …
What people think I do [Daily Dose]
Daily Dose – What people think I do Maybe I had too much wine and champagne last night, but for today’s blog post I’m simply going to share this funny, very true-to-life meme from AllFacebook.com about Social Media Managers. SO TRUE! Please post about how true this is and how you totally agree with it in the Comments section below.
10 Ways Your Business Can Use Valentine’s Day on Social Media [Daily Dose]
Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – 10 Ways Your Business Can Use Valentine’s Day on Social Media (This post is also up today at The Glass Heel.) Love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day is upon us! Consumers worldwide are expected to spend over $14 billion this year on candy, chocolates, stuffed animals and the like. Despite …
Should you automate your posts? [Daily Dose]
Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – Should you automate your posts? I recently read a great post discussing the “end of automation“. It discussed the problems with posting to Facebook and other social media sites through third-party applications (like Hootsuite and NetworkedBlogs). Many people (including me) use third-party applications to save time and to share information more …
How to use social media in your job search [Daily Dose]
Daily Dose Social Media Tip – How to use social media in your job search 34-year-old Dave Cutler in Waltham is looking for a job. But he’s not just photocopying resumes, attending boring networking events and cut & pasting impassioned cover letters. When he was laid off from his job a year ago, Cutler started an all out social media …
QR what? [Daily Dose]
Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – QR what? Inspired by yesterday’s #NPTalk Tweetchat, today’s Daily Dose will be a very brief primer on QR (Quick Response) codes. What is a QR code? It is a two-dimensional bar code that is read by a Smartphone through a QR Code Reader app (you can search for a free QR Code Reader in the App …
My name is Julia and I am an over-sharer. [Daily Dose]
My name is Julia and I am an over-sharer. I post pictures of my daughter eating breakfast on Facebook, I check into places on Foursquare, I pin beautiful photographs on Pinterest, I post my blog to LinkedIn, and I tweet about politics, social media and nonprofits on Twitter. The only time I am not sharing something is when I’m …
Daily Dose – Join the group
Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – Join the group! LinkedIn groups are, in my opinion, a vastly underutilized or incorrectly utilized resource in social media. Before joining a LinkedIn group, you need to ask the following questions: How am I going to use this group? What will my role be in this group? What value can I add to this group? I …