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 …
Daily Dose – How to use social bookmarking sites
Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – How to use social bookmarking sites What are social bookmarking sites? With all the attention that gets paid to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, social media managers often overlook another great tool in the social marketing toolbox – social bookmarking sites. Social bookmarking sites are a great way to promote your blog, …
Daily Dose – How to reach influential people
Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – How to reach influential people One of the most fantastic pros about social media is that influential people are easier to reach than ever before. By influential, I don’t mean huge celebrities like Lady Gaga or Oprah Winfrey. I mean influential people in your industry. You know those people. People with …
Daily Dose – #ThankfulThursday
Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – #ThankfulThursday It’s #ThankfulThursday! Despite the hashtag in front of it, this weekly event is not limited to Twitter. Use your social media channels every Thursday to show your gratitude towards your most active and engaged followers and fans. Thank people for following, for sharing, for reading, for commenting. Thank them for just being …