Hi,
We’re glad you’re here at this blog – but we’re both using our main blogs for communication primarily so we wanted to pass those links to you and hope you’ll enjoy the content there!
Nettie Hartsock – Main Contact Page -
Jennifer Robenalt – Main Contact Page
We encourage you to follow us on Twitter!
This weekend we’ll be speaking on Social Media at the 2009 Agents Conference hosted by the Texas Writer’s League and helmed by the amazing Cyndi Hughes.
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Tagged blog, blogs, jennifer robenalt, nettie hartsock, Social media
Here they are:
1. HubSpot’s superb and (did I say free) Websitegrader – it will take your site through the veritable ringer of analysis and give you actionable insight on how to improve your SEO in a nifty little report delivered right to your email box.
2. HubSpot’s PressreleaseGrader – cool FREE tool that grades your press releases for higher searchability and good usage of keywords. FREE!
3. The latest tool in their vast grading empire - co-developed with one of the finest brains on the Web today David Meerman Scott, this tool is the Gobbledygook Grader. Use it and be free of gobbledygook. (I have to give a Web-hat tip to David Henderson who talked about this tool last night at the IABCHouston Quill Awards during his keynote.)
And no, I’m not an affiliate of HubSpot – I just like Mike Volpe and think they are doing a great job of giving real tools that people can use…for FREE!
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Tagged press release grader, press releases, Web 2.0, website grader
Wonderful article on all things Facebook by Vanessa Grigoriadis for New York magazine on Facebook, its founder, the corporate changes and its struggle to monetize. This is a fantastic source article for Facebook users and people who are using Facebook for branding and community around their services or products as well.
Keeping up with social media is our job…and should be yours as well. Because this field is constantly expanding with social media folks for you to be wise, happy and e-wealthy we want you to be aware of the latest news on all things 2.0.
With that in mind check out this brief article on Linkedin.com and what the new changes are to the group functionality. Espescially key in light of how groups can be very beneficial for authentic connections on Linkedin.
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Finally… here is a great explanation on the differences between Facebook fan pages and group pages which appeared on Authoritydomains.com…
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We are giant fans of Twitter and it’s always fun to be able to contribute to the larger discussion about it. Nettie called in from Austin today during the interview with the founders and go here to find out what she said about Twitter and how it’s being used!
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Tagged social marketing, Social Networking, Twitter, Web 2.0
Why don’t we want the moniker of social media experts? We don’t want it just as we don’t want to be called “gurus” because there is no such thing as being an expert on all things social media. The world of social media is constantly evolving and so is the knowledge base around it and how to best use it.
I would gladly say that we would be humbled to be called, “Social Media Practitioners” because that phrase suggests we are learning all the time, just as you should be.
As a recovering decade long technology journalist, I can tell you that although things are being adopted much faster than the old days of the Web, you should still constantly be mindful of really only using the social media tools you need.
Don’t buy into the idea that you need to use or implement all these tools at once or you’re not going to be successful.
That’s “balderdash!”
And don’t give up the traditional side of outreach and marketing including your enewsletters and other customer touchpoints.
As a lifelong learner, I’m glad that I’m not an expert at social media, but rather a grad student who knows it’s a never-ending road to a doctoral!
