If you're creating events on your Facebook page for speaking engagements, book signings, teleseminars or anything else you want to promote, don't miss an important step---emailing the invitation to a select group of your friends, or all of them, using the email function on Facebook. If you have thousands of friends, that's a time-consuming … [Read more...]
How to choose your profile photo for social networking sites
If you're strapped for cash and can't afford a professional photographer, and you need a photo because you want to promote something on Facebook or another social networking site, what's the next best alternative? The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal offers tips from three professional … [Read more...]
How do you promote your social networking profiles?
Publicity Hound Holly Miller of Chesapeake, Virginia emailed me this morning and and asked if it's proper to include a Twitter address within a press release. It's a great idea, and it got me thinking about other ways to let people know where they can find you … [Read more...]
Twitter Handbook: The bible for newbie, veteran Tweeple
The more addicted you become to Twitter, one of the fastest and easiest-to-use publicity tools, the more time-consuming and confusing it can … [Read more...]
Twitter and text-speak are poisoning the English language
Maybe it's just me, a grumpy former newspaper writing coach. But I fear our love affair with Twitter, text messaging and even those ubiquitous emoticons is poisoning the English language. Mari Smith's Twitter … [Read more...]
The perils of friending journalists on Facebook
Journalists have always hated being identified publicly as the "friend" of a source. "I'm not your friend," is a typical response. "I'm just trying … [Read more...]
Your social networking profiles shouldn’t include passwords
I'm going to comb through my profiles at the various social networking sites where I participate to see if any of them contain the passwords I use for my bank accounts, websites and anything else online. The article "Forgot Your Password?" May be Weakest … [Read more...]
Don’t hide behind a cloak of anonymity on Facebook
If I'm going to spend time on Facebook replying to messages, writing on walls, and reading invitations to events, I want to see the whites of people's eyes. And I want to know their names. I won't waste time responding to a company whose only form of … [Read more...]
How does musicians’ social networking site spread the word?
Kevin Gardiner of Tolland, Connecticut writes:
"I am the president of Tune Rooms, a social network for musicians that lets users collaborate in virtual song-writing sessions. "Since we launched our site, we've received overwhelmingly positive feedback. But the main gripe that we … [Read more...]Hungry reporter gets a free gourmet burger, thanks to Twitter
Twenty years ago, when I worked in the newspaper business, if a local company had delivered to my newsroom a free gourmet burger that I could enjoy at lunch, I probably would have turned red from embarrassment, then eaten it, with my fellow newsroom buddies … [Read more...]
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