Category Archives: Social Networking

News, information, tips, and tutorials for how to improve your social media marketing at venues such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

20 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Use Social Media… and Other Interesting Tidbits

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1. 20 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Use Social Media

by Jeff Bullas

2. Select your airplane seatmate from Facebook and LinkedIn profiles

Fox News
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is developing “meet and seat,” which allows

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Social Media For Business Workshop Series

Would you like to learn more about Facebook Business (Fan) pages, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, and blogging? Join me for five social media workshops — take one or take ‘em all. The workshops are sponsored by Everett Community College Corporate &… more >

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Social Media Marketing for Farmers

I grew up in an Eastern Washington farming community and have lived in small farm towns most of my life.

So it was with great delight that I accepted an invitation to teach a workshop on social media marketing at the Focus on Farming Conference Thursday, November 3 at Everett’s Comcast Arena.

My breakout session starts at 3:30 p.m., when conferees are likely to be worn out and experiencing severe information overload.

Instead of forcing you to listen to me talk for an hour, we’re going to do a couple of hands-on exercises that will help you formulate a social networking strategy you can begin using immediately. more >

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The New Delicious Debuts

I’ve long been a fan of the social bookmarking site, Delicious. When Yahoo sold Delicious earlier this year, I worried that it would go away forever (and I’d lose all my bookmarked sites). But Delicious is back, and it’s better… more >

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How You Can Benefit from Having a YouTube Channel

Connie Mace, blog manager for the Northwest Christian Writers Association, picked my brain about some social media marketing questions that perplex writers and authors. This is the final post in a four-part series. Connie Mace: I’ve visited the Blogging Bistro… more >

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How Safe Are Social Networks?

Connie Mace, blog manager for the Northwest Christian Writers Association, picked my brain about social media marketing questions that perplex writers and authors. This is Part 3 of a four-part series. Connie Mace: Which social networks are the “safest” and… more >

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How to Opt Out of Sharing Your Profile Information in LinkedIn Advertisements

LinkedIn has automatically opted-in its 100 million users into its social advertising program, ostensibly to “deliver ads that are more useful and relevant to you.” As I understand it, if you are “Connected” with a LinkedIn member or Company that… more >

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Understand Your Customers’ Social Networking Habits (Slideshare Presentation)

Suppose from this moment on you were given the following two choices: You could never watch television again OR You could never use your smartphone again. Which would you be more willing to eliminate from your life? Axe the TV,… more >

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The Most Important Social Media Video You Will Watch This Year

50 percent of the world’s population is under 30 years old. One in five couples meet online. Kindergarteners are learning on iPads. Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of countries such as Sweden,… more >

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The Single Most Effective Way to Reach the Sound Byte Generation

This is a guest post by Karen Farris. If you would like to submit a guest article, please check out our guest post guidelines. Back before the turn of the century, I became an abstinence educator in the public schools…. more >

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