5 Ways To Encourage Social Media Employee Participation

Do you find it difficult to get other people in your company involved in social media? Maybe they think only one person should contribute, or maybe they don’t understand what their contribution should be. The people in your company who work most closely with clients and customers are the people that have the best information to use for social media. These are the people that: Deal with every day questions […]

3,000 More Twitter Followers with SocialBro

Over the past couple of months I have been using a tool to help me reach more followers on Twitter. As you know, one way to get more followers is to follow relevant people who are active on the site. But if you do this manually you can literally spend all day to follow some new people. Twitter allows you to follow 1000 new people a day, that would take […]

Make New Friends- Building Connections with Social Media and Content

Depending on which social media site you are using, there is a different level of difficulty involved for building connections. Sure you can get likes, new followers, etc. But that’s the easy part (and I don’t say that lightly). Taking those likes and follows to another level is a completely different story. To start with turning a like or follow into a relationship takes a lot of time. Time in […]

The 3 Best Tools for Curating Content

I’ve written about curating content before. It’s a great way to show your followers you care more about them and less about getting traffic for yourself. It’s also a great way to get more traffic for yourself because as you share more, people are more likely to click to visit your website. Even though I’ve discussed Bufferapp and Feedly before, unless you’ve already used one of these tools you might […]

Day In the Life- Social Media Manager and Her Tools

I hate the term social media manager. Anyone who has gotten 100 friends on Facebook seems to feel comfortable with calling themselves one, and it’s a very far cry from the actual work social media involves. So today I want to share with you, what it’s like to be a social media manager for a day, it isn’t for the faint of heart. Good morning! It’s time to check Email. […]

Planning Your Content Calendar with WordPress and Trello

I have been attending a lot of Twitter chats lately, and this Monday night I attended one by Social Solution Collective about planning your content calendar. I have recently joined their blog as a contributing author and they are an amazing set of women. You can see their Twitter profile here: @Collectivess From the chat (#collectivechat) many of us shared tools, ideas and blog posts that we found helpful in […]

9 Reasons I’m Going to Social Media Success Summit and You Should Too!

In October Social Media Examiner will again be holding their annual Social Media Success Summit. It is a fully ONLINE event that features 45 of the most notable experts in social media, and I can’t wait to go. I attended last year and loved it for these reasons: Tons of talks (webinars) about topics I cared about: Facebook Twitter Youtube Blogging Google+ Video Linkedin Pinterest Relationships Strategy Crisis Management Customer […]