6 Ways a Formatted Google+ Post Will Increase Engagement and Interest Your formatted Google+ posts help! Mike Allton, Social Media Manager at TheSocialMediaHat, provides these great tips to increase interest and engagement on a platform that even a lot of experienced social media mavens find less than intuitive. 1. Title Your Post – Place asterisks at […]
The Top 10 Positives About Job Seeking Job Seeking. Sigh. Adventures in Career Changing means job applications. Beyond networking, education and research, there are just sometimes some forms to fill out. I have filled out – I have no idea how many. And while there are problems with many of these forms, there is also […]
InMaps – Visualize Your Network on LinkedIn InMaps were cool. Let’s say you’ve got a nice, growing network on LinkedIn. Hurray! Now let’s say that it’s gotten large enough that you’re unsure of how it’s all trending. After all, what if your network is dominated by people who used to work at Fidelity but you […]
Wattpad gets into the Digital Publishing Game GoodEReader reports in 2014 that Wattpad, the giant free stories platform, is entering the digital publishing business. In early May of 2014, it was reported that Wattpad had decided to e-publish two of its most famous stories. My Wattpad Love has over 19 million reads. A Proscriptive Relationship […]
Avoiding Common Legal Mistakes in Social Media Contests and Sweepstakes In Maximize Social Business, Kyle-Beth Hilfer has put together a thoughtful rundown of certain things that can just go wrong with online contests and other sweepstakes-style promotions. We often can get caught up in the excitement of the moment and create a contest without truly […]
Responding to Facebook’s Organic Reach Decline Responding to Facebook’s Organic Reach Decline – Facebook’s organic reach is going down. That is, fewer people are seeing your posts (unless you cough up some dough). What to do? Social Media Today’s Pam Dyer has the scoop on how to respond. In 2012, Facebook restricted brand content reach […]
A review of Jay Conrad Levinson’s book on marketing for small businesses.
What I’ve been up to and where I’m going.
Quinnipiac Assignment #15 – Reflections about ICM 522 With the end of my first Social Media class came a request for our overall impressions of how things went. Hence, I prepared Quinnipiac Assignment #15 – Reflections about ICM 522. My classmates and I were also tasked with showcasing what we felt was our best work. I was so very […]
Review of the J-Krak Communities Once again, this was a week where we did not have to create a video. Instead, we conducted a review of the J-Krak communities that Kim Scroggins and I had created. We compared our efforts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and MySpace. We also reviewed our efforts in the blogosphere. Our efforts […]