If you’re receiving this blog post, that means you are one of the last remaining survivors. You are the future now. You are the last hope for humanity. Only you can help rebuild our fallen world. Round up as many Facebook friends and Twitter followers that you can! Re-tweet dammitt! For god’s sake Re-Tweet!!!!!! (and don’t forget to @mention yourself in the Re-Tweet). You would literally think it was a zombie outbreak the way people are responding to the latest Klout score changes. ...
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How To Speak At A Conference & Raise Your Social Profile
One of my favorite parts of my job over the past year or so is having had the opportunity to participate in speaking engagements at conferences and local business chapters. In addition to helping me add credibility to what I do, I’ve been able to connect with people offline, and create additional opportunities for myself and my firm. While I’m not an “expert” by any means when it comes to securing these opportunities, there are a few steps I’ve taken that have helped me do so that I thought ...
The Art Of Having Thick Skin aka Twitter Purge Follow Up
Well, nobody is perfect. Was unfollowing everyone and starting over a good idea? Probably remains to be seen. Looking back, I probably would have been better off not announcing it on my blog, but I’ve always been transparent with my actions, and simply thought it would be useful to others to document what I would be experiencing. But in my particular case, I do believe it was the right thing to do regarding my wants/needs when it came to managing my social media efforts on a personal basis. ...
Tools That Inspire Blog Posts – SignNow.com
Every once in awhile I stumble across an iPad App or service that I just have to blog about. This time around it is SignNow.com. SignNow.com's premise is dead simple, upload a document, sign it, send it. Of course SignNow.com is not the first site to offer this, but I can tell you first hand they are by far the fastest and easiest way I have ever found to have a signed document completed and sent...within minutes. And if you want to compress your file or PDF, Then sodapdf compress is the best ...
The Great Twitter Purge of 2011 Or Why I Have Decided To Unfollow Everyone & Start Over
The time has finally come. I think I always knew that I'd have to do some sort of Twitter house cleaning, but based on my last blog post, and some folks like Michael Hyatt and the mighty Chris Brogan who have pioneered by braving the backlash, I think I'm ready for a purge myself. So starting today, I begin unfollowing everyone on Twitter with the help of SocialOomph. Up to this point, I've subscribed to the reciprocal follow approach. You follow me? Well then I follow you. Why not? ...
Twitter Direct Messages Are Useless
I want to be able to use DMs in Twitter, but really it’s such a vast wasteland of spam that it’s practically impossible to do. While I have a column for my DMs setup in Hootsuite, it’s really just for the rare chance that I may actually catch a legitimate message here and there. And even that is highly unlikely. What I fail to understand is that after years of being in existence, how is it that Twitter has failed to deliver absolutely nothing in the form of spam control or filtering ...
