Time Management for LinkedIn: Social Media Series – Part 4

March 12, 2011

LinkedIn is a great tool to connect with friends, coworkers, and professional acquaintances; but, most importantly it is most used to build your network to access resources for business.  It is very important to maximize your time in this professional social site due to your visibility online.  Your new LinkedIn connections find opportunities to connect [...]

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Time Management for Twitter: Social Media Series Part 3

March 5, 2011

In the world of posting whatever, when ever, there is a lot to be said about quality time with Twitter.  Twitter can be utilized in a multitude of ways.   Any user can post updates about news, links, promotions, events, topics of interest, engage in customer support and participate in online discussions. As an individual or [...]

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Time Management for Facebook: Social Media Series Part 2

February 26, 2011

When exploring the world of social media you will find that it is easy for the social sites to claim time you have allocated to work. It is best to put into practice time allocation to optimize your online schedule. With Facebook, you have probably connected to family, friends, coworkers, business partners and a myriad [...]

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Protecting your privacy in an online world

February 20, 2011

Having just returned from the 12th Annual Reboot Privacy & Security Conference, I am struck by and encouraged by the variety and sheer number of people, professionals who are interested in “saving the world”. These people include business professionals, corporate entities, government agencies, and other interested parties such as the ACLU. So often when Mike [...]

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Networking Power Plays – Midas Financial

February 9, 2011

I’ve never highlighted a business credit builder program. I’ve always thought they were a scam. But here’s what I know about Darrel Hornbacher and his business, Midas Financial: in over ten years of doing business, he’s never had to refund money even though he guarantees his products and, he’s never had a Better Business Bureau [...]

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Time Management for Social Media – Part 1

February 8, 2011

You have created your social media presence, your branding is consistent and you find yourself spending hours each day on any given social media site scrolling, searching, reading and posting for hours on end.  But the question begs to be asked, is this how the social media world was intended or is there a better [...]

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Transformational Leadership: a timeless skill

February 8, 2011

There is so much talk about leadership skills and some people–I think–attack it like they do learning any other skill, with their head rather than with their heart. There are a several books that come to mind when I think about transformational leadership. One is “Leadership and Self-Deception” published by The Arbinger Institute and another [...]

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Adding Rich Media (photos & videos) to your LinkedIn Status

February 6, 2011

Here’s an example of the rich media you can add to your LinkedIn profile followed by quick and easy steps to make your LinkedIn profile status update ROCK! 1. On your account settings, make sure your settings are set to “show rich media in your status update.”You can find this under Twitter settings. You’re looking [...]

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How to Follow LinkedIn Connections on Twitter

December 5, 2010

Image via CrunchBase It’s great when my connections send questions via LinkedIn because I know other people must wonder the same thing. That makes really good fodder for blogs posts! So please… ask away! On 12/03/10 8:55 AM, Heather wrote: ——————– Good Morning I have a social media question that I am hoping that you [...]

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Google Gives Guidance: some Goofy, some Good!

November 2, 2010

Image via CrunchBase I’ve heard some recommendations for the users of Web 3.0 offered by Google. For example, since I don’t have the direct link, let me paraphrase their advice offered to young adults: They say: if you did anything foolish online that you can’t get away from, change your identity! Then people looking for [...]

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The LinkedIn Rockstars Announced as Mingle360′s First Spokesperson Partner

October 27, 2010

October 25, 2010 Fairfax, VA – Mingle360 is excited to announce a new partnership with The LinkedIn Rockstars, Mike O’Neil and Lori Ruff. The LinkedIn Rockstars will be adding Mingle360 technology to their training programs on corporate use of social media. In addition, they will also be providing training sessions at Mingle-enabled events to help [...]

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Networking Power Plays – RMDMA

October 27, 2010

Image via Wikipedia There have been a lot of changes recently, not the least of which is forced upon us via the wonderment of technology. People forget sometimes that they are interacting online with real people on the other side of that computer screen.We can get so fragmented by being pulled into too many directions; [...]

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