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Why should you share your content?
Why share your content with others? The simple fact is people no longer pay attention to much traditional advertising. There is so much of it about that we have learned to ignore it. Traditional advertising on its own may no longer provide a good...
Find Copyright free for images on Social Media
I had a conversation with a customer the other day who said that she had attended a WordPress workshop (before she knew about my courses) during which she was told that she could use any image from the internet on her website. It astonished me -...
Sending group messages on LinkedIn
LinkedIn seems to have changed recently in the way that you can send messages to a group of contacts. 6/11/14 - it has changed back 🙂 There is a very useful facility within the Connections tab of LinkedIn that allows you to group contacts...
Have you used Google Cast?
I do quite a bit of bespoke social media and Microsoft Office training for clients - I go to their site and plug into their equipment. I do have my own projector and screen but many clients like me to use their TV to project my screen. This works...
Representing yourself or a business on Twitter?
Way back in 2011, I wrote a post about selecting a Twitter username. In the post I talked about using ConciseTraining as my username, but use a photo of me, Mary to ensure I show some personality in the account. During the post, I did mention...
Did you know Twitter displayed analytics?
If you have a Twitter Ads account, you can get some interesting data on your organic tweets (even those you are not using for promotion). If you don’t have a Twitter Ads account, you can sign up for one at https://analytics.twitter.com – submit...
Different ways to use Google+ Hangouts
Have you used Google+ Hangouts yet? They are a unique feature of Google+ that allow you to either have up to 9 other people in a private webinar or allow you to livestream webinars to YouTube to allow anybody to listen to the webinar and ask...
Simplifying Social Media With Spreadsheets – Part 4 – Using IFTTT
Last week we looked at some of the social media spreadsheet add-ons that are available. Continuing our spreadsheets for social media theme, today we are going to look at one of my favourite tools - IFTTT – it stands for "If This Then That". This...
Simplifying Social Media With Spreadsheets – Part 3 – Spreadsheet Add-Ons
Last week we looked at using a spreadsheet with management tool Hootsuite to bulk schedule social media posts. Continuing our spreadsheets for social media theme, today we are going to look at some of the social media spreadsheet tools that are out...