Tag Archives: Facebook

7 Scary Social Media Tales for Halloween

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Since today is Halloween, I thought it would be interesting to go back in time to discover 7 memorable scary moments in social media. Chrysler’s Twitter account accidentally drops the F-Bomb. The happy ending here is that the account gained more followers. Kenneth Cole’s Tweet to promote his fashion line causes angry reactions. The WomanContinue Reading

Still not using Facebook? It may cost you a job.

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Tory Johnson of Women for Hire and frequent Good Morning America contributor “hit it” right on the head. Like it or not, Social Media is here to stay and Facebook (with Google Plus accelerating) is leading the pack. As we said earlier, more recruiters are using Facebook & other social media to look for candidates. Continue Reading

Friends Talking too much on Facebook? Hide Them.

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I’m really “Liking” the “Hide all” option in Facebook today, especially when folks get a bit too loquacious. If you change your mind and/or your friend(s) calm down, you can always scroll down to “Edit Options.” and “X” them off the naughty list.Continue Reading

Control who sees others’ tagged photos of you on Facebook

Special events come and go. Unfortunately we are in the age of Facebook, photos can be easily uploaded  and  tagged and then folks like  relatives in another part of the county  who also are on Facebook are suddenly asking questions. Now with the new photo carousel, this is even more apparent. Luckily, no one hasContinue Reading

How to Promote your new Facebook Page

Congratulations,  you just created your first Facebook page. The bubble wrap is barely off when it hits you. You  go to Facebook.com/username to find out that you can’t claim the username of your dreams until you have 25 “likes”. Now only if the “Likes” will come. All you have is the long URL.  What toContinue Reading

Before you post that link…

If you want to get technical, it all started with a link. Then, a client asked me to post a link to their social media site(s). I then asked them “why” do they want me to post the link. At first glance, folks may think that I have an attitude. (Trust me, the Brooklyn comesContinue Reading

Weekend Project: Keeping your Information Private on Facebook

With all the recent Facebook news, it was brought to my attention that my previous post needed updates. So here’s the 2011 edition of Keeping your Information Private on Facebook.Continue Reading

Too Long to Re-Tweet Tuesday goes into the Twilight

It seems that not too long ago, that I started the Too Long To Re-Tweet blog series. Now with more acceptance of the Re Tweet button, there just hasn’t been a need to create blog posts. So I have been using the Re-Tweet button but there were some Tweets that I would like to commentContinue Reading

How to lose friends on Facebook

Channel 7 did a piece on how to lose friends on Facebook yesterday. H/T to Grandma for driving the bus again.Continue Reading

Hootsuite RT issue strikes again

Can someone please tell me how come there is a “hybrid” setting on the Hootsuite iPhone & iPod version and not on the web version? ### Sent from my iPodContinue Reading