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Facebook Fan Check Virus- is it a virus or a hoax?

Date: 8th September 2009
Comments: 5 Related Categories: Admin posts, No no no!, Social Networking

If you’re on facebook, then by now you’ve probably heard the hype about the Facebook Fan Check application, and the fact that it could contain a virus.

To find out more, I turned to one of my favourite sources of news, Mashable - who seem to be saying that it’s not so much the app itself that has a virus, but the emails and sites claiming to be able to fix it. Confused yet?

All I know is that until I removed the app, de-fanned it and detagged myself from all photos I was in, my Facebook friends feed was back to normal. Prior to that it was only showing old updates, and people were in the wrong categories.

Posted in Admin posts, No no no!, Social Networking | 5 Comments »

Sometimes it’s the small things that count

Date: 10th August 2009
Comments: 6 Related Categories: Admin posts, Social Networking

Over the last few months I’ve implemented a few small changes in some of my ’strategies’, and I thought it would be good to share them with you over the next few days so you can see the results.

Today I’ll share with you my ‘newsletter signup strategy’.

I get about 20-30 newsletter signups per day. They all get a lovely little ‘thanks’ message from the Aweber system that I use, which is clearly automated. In 4 years or so of using Aweber, I’ve never yet had one person come back to one of those automated thank yous with a response.

Tags: marketing, newsletters, subscribers
Posted in Admin posts, Social Networking | 6 Comments »

What’s the point of Social Bookmarking?

Date: 4th August 2009
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Social Networking

If you’ve been reading for a while, you know we LOVE the “Plain English” videos produced by Commoncraft, and here’s another one that may help to answer a few questions:

It’s a short explanation of the features and benefits of Social Bookmarking sites like Delicious.com.

Posted in Social Networking | 2 Comments »

Social Media Marketing Checklist in Mindmap form

Date: 4th August 2009
No Comments Related Categories: Admin posts, Social Networking

Be warned – Mindmap is not my tool of choice, so this is pretty basic! But a few people have asked if the Free Social Media Marketing Checklist was available in MindMap format as well as PDF download, so I’ve given it a go.

I used Freemind, which is .. er, free, so if you want the mindmap and don’t have software to read it, download it and you can!

The MM has the steps from the original checklist included, as well as a couple of miscellaneous ones that weren’t on the original. It also has links included where you see the red arrows.

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Free Social Media Marketing Checklist

Date: 20th July 2009
Comments: 23 Related Categories: Admin posts, Blogging, Freebies, Musings, Social Networking

This checklist was inspired by a blog post from Social Media Expert Chris Brogan – you can find his post here http://www.chrisbrogan.com/19-presence-management-chores-you-could-do-every-day/ – I’ve simply added and tweaked a few bits to cover the extra things that I do every day too.

THE PDF DOWNLOAD IS HERE

Please feel free to share this list, as long as you give it away for free and keep both mine and Chris’s details intact.

You can download the social-media-marketing-checklist if you’re impatient – the rather long blog post below simply explains my reasonings behind each item. (Please note, these are MY thoughts, not Chris’s, so we might not 100% agree on the whys, even if we agree on some of the whats…)

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