Last night, the Halton-Peel Communications Association (HPCA) hosted a hands-on social media event for members and guests, and what fun it was. I joined organizer and HPCA member Donna Papacosta and fellow members Rob Clark and Joan Vinall-Cox in talking about and demonstrating how to use LinkedIn (here’s Donna’s summary), blogs, audio and video on [...]
Tag Archives: Social media
Hands-on social media event
Blogging, Twitter, LinkedIn, audio and video on Web sites — what are they all about and why should you care? For starters, these tools can help you get noticed, get remembered and get business. Last spring, the Halton-Peel Communications Association (HPCA) sponsored a successful meeting about social media, with Dave Fleet as our guest speaker. [...]
Tips to regain your daily focus
Usually, I’m very disciplined about writing. After walking my dog in the morning, I’m at my desk at 9 a.m. I turn the sound off so I’m not distracted by the whirr of arriving tweets, or the siren song of e-mail in my in-box. I don’t even listen to music so I can concentrate. So [...]
Have you lost your blogging mojo, too?
While countries around the world worry about swine flu (sorry, H1N1), I’m here to tell you there is another insidious virus sweeping at least the blogging world. Yes, some online Dr. Evil is secretly going around stealing our mojo. You know you’ve noticed it. Some bloggers you follow simply don’t post as often. Others have [...]
Twitter signs He’s Just Not That Into You
In the movie, “He’s Just Not That Into You” (seen on the plane on the way home from San Francisco), Drew Barrymore’s character laments the sorry state of communication with the opposite sex: “I had this guy leave me a voicemail at work, so I called him at home, and then he emailed me to [...]
Twitter vs. blogs
Have you noticed lately that the bloggers you follow are posting a little less frequently? For me, there’s a direct correlation between deadlines looming and a slowdown in both reading and posting to blogs. I’m disciplined about working when I have to be, and time online is the first to go when I have a [...]
Sue’s excellent SF adventure
Back from the 2009 IABC conference in San Francisco (it’s a week ago already!) and I’ve finally found a few minutes to blog about it. (If you’re visiting from Les Potter’s blog, welcome! Be warned you’ve arrived at the PotterHorn mutual admiration society.) I’ve blogged before about the value of attending IABC conferences, and I’ve [...]
Feeling Twittery
And there you have it – one of my pet peeves about Twitter. How every second word is turned into adaptations and variations of the word Twitter and the messages known as tweets. Your words go out into the Twitterverse or tweetstream. People are Tweeple or just Tweeps. The cool kids are the Twitterati. And [...]
Everyone’s trying to be Twitter
Everyone is trying to be like the shiny new toy, Twitter. My Internet service provider, Bell Mail, has launched their new “enhanced” mail service, and it wants me to invite people to join my network and update them on what I’m doing. LinkedIn and Facebook want me to invite people to join my network and [...]
I’m learning
Digital natives won’t be impressed, but it was big news for me when I launched my web site, started a blog, got settled on Facebook and LinkedIn and even downloaded a ringtone (I’m not a big cellphone user). So believe me when I say there is LOTS for me to learn. I had wondered before [...]