Feb 1
4 Main points covered:
1. How to get in the social media game and use it to play with the big guys
2. Start using social media to brand yourself, your own business or the company you work for.
3. If you are looking for a job you can increase your chances of getting the job you want by using social media websites productively.
4. Cast your net huge! Get on the social media wave and make it a goal to expand yourself effectively in 2010!
Jan 26
Jan 20
A glimpse at social media coming into 2010. A slide-show by DreamGrow.
Get prepared and start jumping on social media now!
Nov 15
Oct 15
A Wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages. -Wikipedia
Many people have found using Wikis helpful in collaborating group work projects, group trips and anything where a number of peoples input is needed.
Here are a couple great articles on using Wikis for business. article1 article2
Jun 6
Popular Social Media sites are hitting the mainstream. You can’t listen to the radio or watch TV without hearing terms like Twitter, Facebook or Tweeting. CNN, Ashton Kutcher, Ellen Degeneres and even Oprah are on and talking about them. A recent episode of “My Boys” centered around the topic of Facebook. Every character had a different opinion about the relevance of Facebook to his or her life or work. And that really mirrors life. In every circle there are people who love social media and there are those who just don’t get it. There are some who would only use it for socializing while others are fully on board and utilizing it for their business.
As a Social Media Consultant, I spend hours researching and evaluating these sites and associated applications and am definitely of the mindset that every business should be utilizing these tools to create a presence online.
Let’s go over just three of the main reasons why businesses should use social media.
1. Branding
May 3
First, let’s answer the question that many of you are probably asking, “What the heck is a world cloud?” A word cloud is a cluster of words placed randomly on a “cloud” pulled from the text of any blog, twitter feed, website and more. Your personalized cloud gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
A great site to create your word cloud is Wordle.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
