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Segmenting Social Media Contacts

Ever feel overwhelmed by all the updates from your Facebook friends and posts by people you follow on Twitter? Have you ever considered segmenting these folks into different lists for easier sorting? Each of these sites has a system that allows you to segment your connections and filter your news feeds so you see posts by subject or any other segmentation that works for you  Create Lists on Facebook: Only You Will Know Just go to the Friends section on your Home Page and hover your cursor over the word “more.” This will reveal the lists Facebook has created for [...]

By |2014-02-19T09:39:07-07:00February 19th, 2014|0 Comments

Relationships and Social Media

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, many of us are thinking about our relationships, especially the ones with our spouse, partner, or significant other. But for me, Valentine’s Day makes me think about ALL my relationships, not just the more intimate ones.   So, in honor of Valentine’s Day, here are some tips for sharing posts on Facebook with the different “audiences” in your life and for staying abreast of their posts. Tracking the Facebook Posts of Your Close Friends Assign your closest friends in real life to the Close Friends category on Facebook. Doing this will place a [...]

By |2014-02-11T22:30:21-07:00February 11th, 2014|0 Comments

Use Social Media to Help Promote Your Book (Or Even a Chapter)

Have you written a book? Have you written a chapter in an anthology? Or do you write articles or blog posts (like this one)? Any time you write something – from a short blog post to a book – remember to use social media to help draw more readers to what you have written. Recently, I had a chapter published in the book Seek Your Peak to Find Your Spark, an anthology compiled by April M. Williams. The book has accounts from multiple authors about what they are passionate about and how they came to develop that passion. Here is [...]

By |2014-02-04T09:02:35-07:00February 4th, 2014|4 Comments

Facebook Keeps Changing – What Else is New?

In just the last week or so I have noticed a couple of things that have recently changed about Facebook. The first one you might not have noticed unless you happened to be checking your privacy settings. The other one is pretty obvious.   Privacy Settings Are Now Found Under “Settings” A few days ago, I wanted to check something in my privacy settings. But when I went to the drop down menu under the cog wheel icon on my menu bar, the word “privacy” wasn’t where it always had been. So, I went to Facebook’s Help Center and typed [...]

By |2014-01-28T18:25:39-07:00January 28th, 2014|0 Comments

Learn From Your Competition on Social Media

Recently a financial planner asked me to give him some feedback on his LinkedIn profile. As you may know, professionals in this highly-regulated industry have many restrictions on how they use social media in general, including what they can put in a LinkedIn profile. That said, I took a look at his profile and made a few general suggestions for improvement. Then I reviewed the LinkedIn profiles of a few of the other financial planners I am connected with on LinkedIn. I shared the LinkedIn URLs for these planners with the fellow who asked me to review his profile. Then [...]

By |2014-01-22T22:00:45-07:00January 22nd, 2014|0 Comments

Networking at Social Media Classes

When you take a social media class or any other business-related class, do you come prepared to network? Having both taken and taught a wide range of social media classes, I am struck by the incredible networking opportunities these classes offer. However, in order to make this type of networking work you for you, you need to do some preparation prior to arriving at class, you need to reach out to your classmates, and you need to follow up afterwards. Preparations Prior to the Class Be sure to have your business cards with you. Think about what kinds of people [...]

By |2014-01-14T09:12:52-07:00January 14th, 2014|0 Comments

Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook

Have you ever reviewed the privacy settings on your Facebook account? In general, the default settings on any Facebook account are quite open, meaning that everything you post is visible to anyone who might find your account. Depending on your personal and business circumstances, you may want to make your Facebook account settings more restrictive than the default settings. How do you do that? It’s pretty simple.   To Adjust Your Privacy Settings: Click on the little cog wheel on the far right end of the blue menu bar at the top of your Facebook screen. Several options will be [...]

By |2013-12-10T18:01:15-07:00December 10th, 2013|0 Comments

Using Social Media to Pay It Forward

Recently I celebrated the third anniversary of my company Boomers’ Social Media Tutor. What began as simply a glimmer – a vision in my head – has blossomed into a full-fledged social media tutoring and training business. Everyone who starts a business does so as a result of some type of inspiration or vision.   How Boomers' Social Media Tutor Came to Be: I was motivated by a strong desire to help others, especially those in my age group, known as the Baby Boomer generation, (born between 1946 and 1964), to use social media to pay it forward. By which [...]

By |2013-11-19T14:32:03-07:00November 19th, 2013|2 Comments

The Power of LinkedIn

Are you active on LinkedIn? If you aren’t using this essential social media tool, you can find it at www.linkedin.com LinkedIn has a more professional orientation than sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Perceived by many as simply an electronic “rolodex” of business contact information, LinkedIn actually has a broad array of valuable features. One of my favorite LinkedIn features is the ability to join groups. There are groups whose purpose is to follow trends and share information on just about every industry you can imagine. There are groups for professional and volunteer organizations, hobbies, and for a multitude of [...]

By |2013-11-12T13:45:40-07:00November 12th, 2013|0 Comments

Pinterest for Business

Pinterest, a relative newcomer to the social media world, is often overlooked by those thinking about publicizing a business.  Overview of How Pinterest Works One of the appeals of Pinterest is its functionality. As a Pinterest user, you have the option to follow all or just a select few of another user’s boards. For those unfamiliar with the site, it’s based on the concept of the bulletin board – you post or “pin” items of interest to your boards. You can create as many boards as you have topics you want to post about.   When you “follow” a board, [...]

By |2013-11-05T12:11:51-07:00November 5th, 2013|0 Comments
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