Your Media Diva

During today’s f8 conference, Facebook unveiled the new profile feature called “Timeline”.  Timeline allows you to tell the story of your life on a single profile page. It features a large header photo the “Cover” which is the first thing that ‘friends’ will see when they view your profile.  You can change your cover photo with a simple click, to any of the photos you have uploaded to your profile.  [ Read More ]

Get ready for yet another change to your Facebook profile.  This time, Facebook is creating an Improved Friends List which should make it easier for you to “see more from the people you care about”.   To make this possible, Facebook has created Smart Lists which will “create themselves” based on profile information and initially catagorize your ‘friends’ into: Work School Family City In addition to Smart Lists you will  [ Read More ]

There are a number of great infographics that do a great job of making the statistics of business, marketing and social media interesting and easy to digest.  Here is one of my favorites. Via: The Steel Method Subscribe here to get post notifications in your in-box. Your email:       

Today, Facebook updated the look of its News Feed with a live ticker.  This ticker feature is being released on a rolling basis so not all profiles have been updated. So far it appears that the ‘News Feed’ that we all know and love will carry updates and “Top News” based on your interaction with friends and pages while the news feed will show you everything as it happens in  [ Read More ]

Facebook has added a few enhancements that puts your privacy settings at your fingertips.  The most important, in my opinion, is the “Profile Tag Review”.  I am giddy with anticipation at being able to use this feature as I have some ‘friends’ on my personal page that overuse this feature… DAILY! So here is the scoop:  Going forward you will have the ability to reject any photo or post that  [ Read More ]

Over the past two months I have been spending some time hanging-out on Google+.  Admittedly, I have posted very little.  Instead I spend 95% of my time just reading and observing.  It seems that most of the popular ‘social media personalities’ and those that consider themselves to be a special class of early adopters are taking a purist view of Google+, hoping that it will distinguish itself from Facebook and  [ Read More ]

If you are still on the fence about using Twitter for your small business take a look at these nunbers:

So you’ve heard the term ”Social Media Marketing” and you want to know what it is.  Social Media Marketing is growing quickly and gaining mass-market popularity and acceptance.  Here are a few of the questions I get asked most often about Social Media Marketing.  I have crafted a short answer to each question to get you started.  What is Social Media Marketing? Basic Social Media Marketing is the creation and maintenance of a page, profile,  [ Read More ]

Too many small business owners use the fear of negative comments on Facebook and Twitter as an excuse for not creating a “fan page” or other Social Media presence for their business.  Usually, it is the fear of negative comments being posted on their page that prevents them from taking advantage of the many benefits of Social Media Marketing. Negative comments are not a common occurrence on the pages of  [ Read More ]

Recently, during a client consult I was asked to explain the term RSS Feed.  There is so much Social Media Lingo that we toss around that we take it for granted that the rest of the world knows exactly what it means.  So what is RSS? At one time RSS stood for Rich Site Summary.  However it now stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’.   RSS is a quick and simple  [ Read More ]