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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My Twitter Good News!
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on August 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment
You know, I honestly enjoy my time on Twitter… Tonight I saw a tweet about a live party on Ustream with @MariSmith (for those not familiar, she is a “Relationship and Buzz Marketing Specialist” born in Scotland, lived in Canada -yay – and now is in California. She is very successful with Facebook, Twitter and [...]
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Spreading your social networking self…
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on August 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment
August 6th, 2009… the day that Twitter almost died. My fear was near realized today when both Twitter and Facebook were part of targeted attacks that caused issues with their service which means for us users – we cannot Log In! Once I realized this early in the morning…as it is part of my practice [...]
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How do you learn Twitter & Social Media?
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on July 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I have been getting many inquiries lately and thought maybe it would help to tell people how I learned to use Twitter and Facebook and more… How did I start? Well, I read… a lot! If you check the Resource Page on this site, you’ll find several great places to kickstart you. There will be [...]
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Social Media keeps Businesses & Consumers Accountable
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on July 27, 2009 · 1 Comment
Recently, there was a grand example from Nova Scotia (my home province) that makes it clear to businesses and consumers exactly how social media has changed the way these parties interact. Dave Carroll , a musician from Halifax, Nova Scotia, had his guitar broken in the spring of 2008 when his band was on a [...]
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Top Twitter tips
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on July 18, 2009 · 4 Comments
As many know, the Twitip Blog is one of my favourite places, among others, to keep up to date with all things twitter-related. Twitip is run by Darren Rowse, a blogger from Australia (@problogger) with help from some others as well (@larakulpa) Well, yesterday I joined in many others to help answer a reader question [...]
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Twitter and Passwords
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on July 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
When using applications you are using that require your twitter username and password, you must remember to keep things up to date. If an application requires your password for use on a regular basis and you change your twitter password, you have to remember to change the password on these external applications as well. Two [...]
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5 Benefits of using Twitter for Business
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on July 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Twitter. It’s been in the news a lot lately. The growth of Twitter, a micro-blogging social networking site, is amazing. Some reports suggest more than 10 million users are now signed on to Twitter and the majority of them are 35 years and over. Many ask, how can something like Twitter help my business? If [...]
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My Twitter VA … a fresh, new look
Posted by Kathy Colaiacovo on July 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Social Media work has been taking off for my Virtual Assistant business, Time on Task VA Services, lately. Clients are contacting us from all over to get help setting a plan in place that along with custom profiles can help establish an effective online presence and be a support for their marketing plan as well. [...]
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