Big Changes coming… Fix your FanpageBoxes right now!
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on November 12, 2009 · 5 Comments
Okay… so tonight I got an odd message on Facebook when visiting someone’s fanpage. The error message that came up said: IMPORTANT: Facebook have announced that all links, boxes and ‘info sections’ for applications will be REMOVED from your profile in the next few weeks. To continue using this application you must add a bookmark [...]
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Who do you Follow?
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on November 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Making connections on social networks should always be about more than just numbers – yes numbers are important , especially to reach the viral aspect of social networking, but you should also be making connections with a purpose. Whether it’s a a connection in your target market, someone you would like to partner with or [...]
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5 Tips to better Tweets
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on October 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Value… everyone wants some great value in today’s economy. Marketing companies are all about promoting value in advertising these days. It makes sense considering how these ‘tough economic times” are hitting many people. My family had a two week vacation this summer and a good part of the planning was ensuring we received good value [...]
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Tweetdeck – New Features
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on October 16, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tweetdeck has a new release today – version 0.31.1 – and in addition to many other addons and fixes they have added a new column for New Followers. With the click of a button you can now have column dedicated to any new followers you have. For people like me – ones who hate the [...]
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Say No to Spam
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on October 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Personally I can’t wait for the spammers to tire of Twitter. It is most annoying looking at tweets that have a link and a bunch of usernames…and nothing else of value to anyone at all. Do these users really think people are that gullible? That we actually hit any of these links? I don’t click [...]
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Social Media overload… You can keep your inbox under control
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on September 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Well… I got a glimpse of inbox chaos this week. Something happened and my facebook notifications were changed. A glitch I suppose, but the glitch meant I started getting email notifications when anyone friended me, wrote on my wall, made a comment, sent me a message…. You get the picture. My inbox was jammed full [...]
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Twitter and posting to your Fanpage
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on September 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Facebook fanpages or pages for business…many people use them as a support to their social media and marketing efforts. One of the biggest requests I have from clients who have hired me as their social media virtual assistant is to set up auto linking of twitter updates to fanpages. Until this past week there was [...]
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Facebook Fanpages… usernames open
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on September 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A few notes came through the grapevine lately that Fanpages could now book their user names without the minimum requirement of 100 fans. Seems the limit has now gone down to 25 again, the original limit set. Read this post from July to understand more about how to set your fanpage username. If you have [...]
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Social Media Revolution… does it need some Evolution?
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on September 1, 2009 · 7 Comments
One of my clients – and one who is my best social media success story – recently had their Facebook fanpage disappear. No warnings, no explanation – just gone. It was a fanpage we have been working on for a few months and one that had more than 500 fans and a lot of good [...]
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What's on your Twitter wish list?
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on August 10, 2009 · 1 Comment
Personally the biggest item on my list is an easy way to Retweet someone’s fantastic post. Quickly, easily and directly in Twitter. I find it odd that an application that discusses and has rules regarding Reposting others’ content, does not make it easy to do so. One of the hardest things I have to teach [...]
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