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Why You Still Need Your Computer for Social Sites

With so many people opting to access social media sites from their mobile devices, some people may be wondering if they should even bother to keep accessing those sites via computer. My response is – the computer is still necessary, especially for customizing privacy settings and making changes in your personal profile on a site like LinkedIn or in the About section of your Facebook timeline. Certainly there are a wide range of activities that you CAN do on mobile devices, from sending Friend requests on Facebook, to posting a status update on LinkedIn, to pinning something to a board [...]

By |2015-02-10T23:24:03-07:00February 10th, 2015|0 Comments

Facebook Friendships with Business Colleagues: Pros and Cons

The more I network for my business as a social media tutor, the more people in the business world send me friend requests on Facebook. At first I ignored these requests, thinking that Facebook is a social media platform I use for personal reasons and LinkedIn is the platform I use for professional purposes. Then over time, I began to accept at least some of the friend requests, as I found myself wanting to get to know my some of my business connections on a personal level too. Some Advantages of Being Facebook Friends with Business Colleagues You can tag [...]

By |2015-01-20T00:36:19-07:00January 13th, 2015|0 Comments

Hidden Tools on Facebook

Ever get frustrated while trying to do something on Facebook because you can’t figure out where the tool to do what you want to do is located? One reason that may be happening is that some of the tools are actually hidden! Really, you can’t see them until you hover your cursor over the relevant section. Typically that section is located in the top right-hand corner of whatever it is you want to manipulate. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why Facebook doesn’t make these tools more obvious, but then there are a lot of things about [...]

By |2014-07-23T15:38:44-06:00July 23rd, 2014|2 Comments

Removing Social Media Connections

Ever scroll through your Facebook newsfeed and find yourself only interested in the activities of a small portion of your Facebook friends? Or, if you are more of a LinkedIn user, do you find yourself trying to remember how you know the people whose posts you see in your newsfeed or wondering why you’re connected to them? Whether your social media platform of choice is Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and/or another social site, likely you have some connections you would rather not have anymore. I suggest that every few months you take the time to review your connections. Determine if you really are [...]

By |2014-07-08T17:03:49-06:00July 8th, 2014|0 Comments

Business Connections and Facebook

Are you Facebook friends with people you meet through business groups and events? Or do you keep your Facebook account restricted to close friends and family members? When I first got on Facebook back in 2008, I figured I would be friends only with people I knew pretty well in the real world – family members and friends. Then over time, I broadened my circle to include people I know from Toastmasters, an international communication and leadership organization. Then I added people I know from my church and other organizations. The common denominator being that my Facebook friends only people [...]

By |2014-07-02T15:55:26-06:00July 2nd, 2014|0 Comments

Responding to Social Media Connection Requests

One of the most challenging aspects of being active on a social media site can be deciding whether or not to: Accept a friend request on Facebook Accept an invitation to connect on LinkedIn Follow someone who follows you on Twitter Follow someone who follows you on Pinterest Agree to connect with someone who has asked for a connection on another social media platform While some people simply automatically accept every invitation that comes their way, for most of us, there are many things to consider before we click accept or decide to follow someone who has followed us. For [...]

By |2014-06-14T22:39:15-06:00April 28th, 2014|0 Comments

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

Friend Requests on Facebook

What’s your approach when someone friends you on Facebook? How do you handle a Friend request from someone you kind of recognize, but you can’t quite place how you know them? Since this has happened to me more than once, I figure it probably happens to just about everyone who uses Facebook. So, to see what other folks do, I posted the following question on my Boomers’ Social Media Tutor Facebook page. How Do You Handle a Friend Request on Facebook From Someone You Don't Quite Recognize? I provided the following options for people to select from. Do you: Accept their [...]

By |2013-05-23T17:13:56-06:00May 23rd, 2013|0 Comments

Use Social Media to Enhance your Experiences of Events

Have you ever felt a bit nervous about attending a retreat, workshop, convention or other gathering where you know few, if any, of the participants? Before social media, all we could do was show up at the event and do our best to feel comfortable with these strangers. Now we have all kinds of alternatives. One person who follows my Boomers’ Social Media Tutor Facebook page recently wrote about how she used the friending feature of Facebook to help her get to know fellow participants of an upcoming writers retreat. Luckily for her, the organization sponsoring the retreat had set up the [...]

By |2013-02-05T22:48:13-07:00February 5th, 2013|0 Comments
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