By Lynn, on August 30th, 2011%
As you know, your website is your online basecamp. It conveys the essence of your brand to your community and is the heavy-lifter for all of your online communications. If it lacks appeal, is unorganized, or just doesn’t work properly, it can lead to lost business opportunities, perhaps even business failure.
photo credit: felixtsao
So what have you got to lose? Maybe a lot. It’s time to open your browser to your webpage and evaluate it using the checklist below. It will only take a few minutes, I promise (yes, I’m talking to you).
By the way, . . . → Read More: It’s Self-Evaluation Time for your Website
By Lynn, on August 27th, 2011%
Family and friends send some of the best material for the Saturday Morning’s Post to me. My niece, Heidi, in an email, initially sent this one. That’s how social media works, right? People you know, talking about things you find interesting –and then sharing it. I also find it interesting how many ways great Internet content is disseminated email, Facebook, You Tube. It’s countless!
To get started on this post, I wanted to make sure I was crediting the right source; I googled it. Here is what I found.
After a bit of research, I discovered . . . → Read More: If Facebook Existed… A Mashup
By Lynn, on August 26th, 2011%
Hi Everybody!
Just a short little TGIF Friday Freebie for you today. I love working at home -most of the time. This morning was one of those times when you can’t help, but appreciate it, take the time to smell the roses and all that jazz. (Even though I do have five blogs that need to be written today.)
We have a family of Wild Turkeys living in our backyard. This is not really that uncommon in Appleton, WI (near Green Bay, WI), but it is funny when they come in to your birdfeeders -with their babies! They brought . . . → Read More: The Perils of Working At Home
By Lynn, on August 23rd, 2011%
Hopefully last week’s post didn’t make you stay awake at night wondering if you, too, were a spammer. When you leave comments on someone else’s blog how do you know it’s not spam? You can rest easy if you are leaving thoughtful comments on blogs that match or at least have something to do with your blog’s topic. In fact, commenting thoughtfully on someone else’s blog is a great way to get people to visit your own site and create backlinks. If you are cutting and pasting from one blog to another then you just may be.
White hat . . . → Read More: Part Four – How do I know I’m not ‘spamming’? I’m just trying to promote my blog
By Lynn, on August 19th, 2011%
Choose a cool TedTalk this way…
I feature Ted.com online video podcasts quite often on Saturday Morning’s Post. As a social media coach, these talks often provide me with new insights into trends and differing viewpoints on countless topics. As they say, TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Ted.com started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. I think TedTalks simply feed your mind.
Since June 2006, TEDTalks have been made available online on the TED website, YouTube, and . . . → Read More: TedTalks. Better Than Redbox
By Lynn, on August 16th, 2011%
What a thrill it is to get people commenting on your blog. That’s how it works, right? People from all over the world will discover your writing talents, appreciate your knowledge on a certain subject and leave comments. That is what all of us engaging in the social media world have all been promised, right? Well, good comments will happen, but I hate to tell you that here, too, spammers are lurking in the background.
Usually these spammers are trying to get into your site by adding links where you may not even realize it. This is called link . . . → Read More: Part Three – Sorting Out Spam Comments in your Blog
By Lynn, on August 13th, 2011%
The original article, The Wealth of the Web Runs Deep, posted as a Saturday Morning’s Post in March received some of our best response ever. So, as a blogger, what do you do with that information? You find out what’s hot and repeat it.
Using web analytics, a.k.a. stats, you’re able to find out so many things. For instance, you find what your audience likes or doesn’t, you find what days and times get the most response, and find what your average response is to each blog. Careful web analysis is worthwhile and critical to success.
Enough with the shop . . . → Read More: The Wealth of the Web Runs Deep, A Sequel
By Lynn, on August 9th, 2011%
Recently I got scam-spammed on Facebook by reposting an entry on Amy Winehouse’s death stating that it was getting more media attention than several soldiers who were killed in action. I should know better, right? Maybe you saw it, too? Oops. Sorry! How did I find out? Shortly after I posted, I received an email from a friend that said it was an inaccurate message. The exact same message had circulated about a year earlier using Lindsay Lohan’s name. That got me mad enough to write this blog. People need to know how insidious spam has become.
Chuck . . . → Read More: Part Two – Spam on Social Networks
By Lynn, on August 6th, 2011%
My husband, Tom, and I start our vacation this weekend. We’ll be exploring the Mississippi River area with my sister and her husband in a 32-foot motor home. Yeah! Fun here we come!
Packing will be tricky. But, as unofficial Queen of Lists, I will take this challenge head on. I have a camping list dating back about ten plus years from when our family camped regularly. Everything but the kitchen sink is in there.
It’s been awhile, but the secret to happy camping is in the planning. So… being married to the Internet, as I am, what do . . . → Read More: Vacationing with the Queen of Lists
By Lynn, on August 3rd, 2011%
Do you always know if and when you’re being spammed? Sometimes, it’s hard to tell. It has become so prevalent in our daily lives that I am writing a 4-part series, starting this week on spam, what it is, how do you recognize it and what are the best ways to manage it.
First, what exactly is spam?
We experience spam everyday, but what is it? According to Wikipedia, Spam is the use of any electronic messaging system that sends bulk messages indiscriminately. In 2011, the estimated figure for spam messages is around seven trillion. Fraud and lost . . . → Read More: Spam, Not The Ham. How Do You Recognize It?
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Part Four - How do I know I’m not ‘spamming’? I’m just trying to promote my blog
Hopefully last week’s post didn’t make you stay awake at night wondering if you, too, were a spammer. When you leave comments on someone else’s blog how do you know it’s not spam? You can rest easy if you are leaving thoughtful comments on blogs that match or at least have something to do with your blog’s topic. In fact, commenting thoughtfully on someone else’s blog is a great way to get people to visit your own site and create backlinks. If you are cutting and pasting from one blog to another then you just may be.
White hat . . . → Read More: Part Four – How do I know I’m not ‘spamming’? I’m just trying to promote my blog