Social Media Inside A Company

Innovating Employee Engagement meets Executing Social Media. This conference is the 16th and 17th in Chicago and there will be around 50 attendees. I’ve been asked to represent bloggers and twitterers and small media. I will attend all the sessions and follow in this blog and on twitter (hashtag #commtell09). Conference details are here. There…

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Setting Guidelines

I am in the process of setting up the guidelines for the work I’ll be doing under the umbrella Debworks. It’s been an interesting process. I’ve from the school of thought that you learn as you teach. Now, teachers get paid. Students don’t. I’ve been a student who has shared her information with her friends…

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Twitter speech: Your Work In 140 Characters

We are taught to have a 30 second speech prepared for when you are on an elevator with someone.  It’s called an elevator speech.  It’s a new age.  It’s good to adapt to the online universe.  Rule of thumb is people only look at a page online for 8 seconds.  Facebook is good for a…

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Twitter Follow2Friday Drinking Wine Challenge

I receive the Sticky Figure blog by Steve Woodruff in my email quite regularly.  On Fridays, he has expanded the twitter policy of recommending someone to follow.  Steve writes a short blog post every Friday recommending one of his followers. This week Steve issued a challenge. He has asked that we write a blog post…

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Social Media Suggestions for Small Business Events

I was a vendor at the Home and Business Expo in Iowa Falls, Iowa this past Saturday.  It was hosted by KIFG radio and Times-Citizen Communications.   They advertised with an 8 page separate section in the Iowa Falls and Ackley Paper.  It was broadcast over the radio station.  I found out about it from…

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Top Ten Reasons I’m Going to SOBCon 09

Top Ten Reasons 1.  I’m a blogger.   2.  To actually meet the speakers that I follow on twitter.  Chris Brogan, Brian Clark, Chris Cree, Chris Garrett, Glenda Watson Hyatt, Julian Smith, Terry Starbucker, Liz Strauss — just to name a few. 3. To meet my some of my twitter friends like Becky McCray, Amber…

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Assignment Number 1 31DBBB

Assignment Number 1 from Problogger project: 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Create Your Elevator Speech. Here’s what I had on the blog. INTENTIONS, PURPOSE AND PERMALINK The intentions of this blog is share knowledge, entertain when possible and merge work life with home life.  Interviews and information for and about small businesses and…

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Think BIG

I met with one of my sponsors to SOBCon09 yesterday -Judy from Cornerstone Cottage.   She’s got a lot going on with her business.  She’s also a creative, inspiring, intelligent woman.  She gets it.  We talked about creating a mindmap for the things she wants to do.  I think her lightbulb moment was realizing that…

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Blogging – Are You?

Today I’ve put together the posts about blogging I’ve written for my 100 series into one spot.  If you aren’t blogging, this is a good place to start reading to see if you want to!   If you are blogging, I would love to see your comments.   30 Day Plan  What I’ve Learned Due…

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Twitter For All

Over the last 30 days I’ve written several posts on how to twitter, twitter results and just plain twitter info.   I have compiled them here in one post – objective: make it easy!  I’ll be teaching class in May and these posts will be part of my curriculum.  Advice?  Read and get ready!  …

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