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Does this sound familiar? Social Media takes too much time I’ve got too many things on my to-do list already. I haven’t got time to waste. A well planned social media strategy will only use a limited number of tools. Sure, you’ll have to invest a bit more time at first to set up your [...]
Heather Kleim from Epic Empire Designs asks: If someone you follow posts something incredibly offensive & sexist, do you comment? One of the people I follow (a Vancouver news-type tweeter, talking about events and buzz in the city) posted something that infuriated me and was incredibly offensive to women. I emotionally reacted and replied with ‘how to [...]
Amber Mac‘s book Power Friending offers terrific information to demystify social networking. She illustrates best practices for business with illustrative good, bad and ugly examples. Amber’s book is the focus of the inaugural podcast of Beachcomber on Books, my new series to share about the professional books that interest and inspire me.
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Community expert Angela Crocker spoke to Vancouver Radio CKNW’s Bill Good about creating social networks. Want to know why it’s important, and why it’s not as scary as you may think? In this interview, they discussed the value of using social media tools, the demographics that can be found on various social sites and common [...]
Oops! You’ve just blocked or hidden a true friend on Facebook. What to do? First, understand the difference. Did you hide them from the newsfeed or did you block them from their profile page? Both can be fixed but you need to know what you’ve done before you can fix it. To hide someone, you [...]
What a treat! This morning I was interviewed by Sophie Lui at Global TV BC for the Global Sunday Morning News. We talked about what a social network is, how people are using social networks and my book. If you missed the broadcast, here’s your chance to see it online:
Did you know that Facebook uses something called EdgeRank to determine what appears in people’s newsfeeds? This algorithm evaluates every status update, shared link and uploaded videos and photos and decides which users will see it. The key thing to understand is that not everyone will see your post! During session of the Blogging Success [...]
Yesterday was Pink T-shirt Day, a day of solidarity and protest against bullies and bullying. I wore green. Oops. I support the spirit of this day but it wasn’t on my radar this year. I find that odd as I’m well read and pay attention to what’s going on around me. In fact, the first [...]
I’m still thinking about this podcast, I recorded last week with Cindy Lund Chow from Life Simplicated. We were talking about the best ways to reach working parents through social media. My top 3 are: Blogging Twitter Facebook Hear why, in this podcast: p.s. I’ve added my voice to the grassroots movement to boycott [...]
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I recently recorded a podcast with Kevin Simcock of Creative Artery. Have a listen to hear our chat about social video sharing (YouTube vs. Vimeo) and Twitter’s mysterious #ff. Listen!
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- @LornaSuzuki Yes. I'll be tweeting in waves when I'm doing interesting things rather than a daily tweet march. Glad we'll be in touch more.
- @PoMoLibrary You're very articulate for a building, Library. ;) Tweet well!
- @LornaSuzuki Thanks for the honourific. :) My #socmed use needed de-spamming, streamlining & a "meaningful" reboot. Feeling better now.
- @LornaSuzuki Hi Lorna! I started a new contract in January and the transition has kept me very busy. Also needed to think on my #socmed use.
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Even before we sat down, Angela had a good sense of what my needs for social media would be and then she helped me focus on what I can do to create a social media routine that’s simple, easy to manage, and create the kinds of connections I need to...
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