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How to Harness the Power of Social Media for Your Business

How to Harness the Power of Social Media for Your Business from carynbrown

Social Media for Non-Profits

Here is my presentation that I did this morning at the Non-Profit Network Breakfast.

recap from the 2nd CenTex New Media tweetup

deleting a facebook post

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http://digitalmediabutterfly.com/deleting-facebook-post/

erin verbeck speaks at #WacoSMB

recap from first central texas new media tweet up

thanks jay for putting this together at storify!

first central texas new media tweet-up

tomorrow is the first central texas new media tweet-up and I am so excited.  I am on the board for this wonderful organization that is helping to bring more information on new media to central texas.  I will be writing in my next few blog post why I joined this board, why I think this group is important to our community, what this group plans to bring to our community.  I hope to see all my waco tweeple tomorrow night.

sign up for the tweet up

find out more about central texas new media

find out what a tweet-up is

social media -- non-profit style

my friend c.j. jackson spoke on social media at the waco non-profit breakfast and it was great!  here are her notes:

• Recommended reading - Charlene Li. Books include "Groundswell" and "Open Leadership."
• Link to presentation
• Waco Social Media Breakfast is the last Tuesday of every month at 7:30 am.

the facebook obsession

I watched a great show last night on cnbc called "the facebook obsession"  it was really informative and got me thinking a lot about facebook and how I use it.  I would love to hear the thoughts of any of you out there who have seen this special or even after just reading the link in this article.

how to tag someone in a facebook update

you may have noticed that you can now tag people when you update your status on facebook (it turns thier name blue and hyperlinks to their page).  you can do this for people that your are friends with or pages that you like on facebook, here's how:

1. type your update like you normally would
2. when you get to the part in your update where you want the tag to be, just type the @ sign and then start typing the person's name (no space between the "@" sign and the person's name)
3. a list will then populate below where you are typing and all you have to do is click on the name of the person or page you want to tag (if they don't show up at first, keep typing and they will)
4. now finish typing your update and click on share

see, wasn't that easy!

what do you want me to cover next?

I've been awfully quiet on this blog the last few months mainly because I don't know what to share with you, so you tell me, what topics would you like for me to cover next?

twitter questions from a hat -- waco social media breakfast

despite our awful weather this morning, we still had 10 people for the waco social media breakfast.  our topic was an open forum on twitter.  karla patterson did a great recap of the meeting on the social media breakfast blog!

how to be a social media butterfly

this past week I had the pleasure of giving my "how to be a social media butterfly" talk to another group of abwa women.  so, I figured I would share my presentation with you!

How To Be A Social Media Butterfly

View more presentations from carynbrown.

cartoonizing a picture in picasa

for the longest time, I thought you had to have expensive photo editing software to make a cartoonized picture, but I have discovered how to do it in picasa.  now, it might not be as good as the results from more expensive software, picasa is free and easy to use and that means a lot to me.

1. double-click on the picture you want to cartoonize in picasa
2. click on effects
3. click on saturation and drag the bar all the way to the right for the most saturation
4. click on apply
5. click on tuning
6. drag highlights and shadows until you get the picture to look the way you want it to
7. click on apply

see, wasn't that easy!

how to add a picasa slide show to your blog

one of the coolest things that you can do with picasa is add a slideshow of your pictures to your blog posts or website and it's really easy to do:

1. put all the photos you want in the slideshow in one folder.
2. in picasa, click on the sync button to sync your (folder) album to the web.
3. log into the picasa webpage.
4. click on the album with the pictures for the slideshow.
5. click on link to this album (in the menu pane on the right-hand side).
6. click on embed slideshow.
7. a window will then pop up for you to select your settings and give you the code to copy into your blog or website.

how to add top posts to your blog

one of the coolest things you can do on your show your readers what your top posts are.  for that I use post rank and here is how you set it up:

1. go to the post rank website at http://www.postrank.com/publishers and choose your blogging platform from the get widget drop down (for these instructions I used blogger).
2. enter your blog's URL in the website: field (sometime it may take a while for it to index your blog)
   
3. choose the color scheme and the number of posts that your want to display
4. you can then click on add to blogger or copy the code onto your website

see, wasn't that easy!!

does blogging increase your SEO?

so, this question was posed to me a few months ago and I have been thinking about it and trying to put it into words ever since. I have tried unsuccessfully to find some articles and blog posts on the subject (if you have one, please put a link to it in a comment on this post). here are links to the two that I did find:

SEO Benefits Blog to Increase Your Search Engine Ranking

The Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For Your Blog

in my own words, this is how I understand it to work. blogging in and of itself does not increase your SEO, but blogging increases the number of words on your site and the frequency of updates to your site, both of which increase your SEO.

picasa 201 - sharing pictures on picasa

one of the greatest things about picasa is that you can easily share pictures from it.  here's how:

1. in picasa, on the folder you want to share, click share button beneath the folder's name.  (you will have to have a picasa on-line account to do this, but it will walk you through setting one up if you do not have one yet)
2. enter the user's e-mail address in the to field and click on send.

see, wasn't that easy!!

facebook questions from a hat

we had a great turn out this morning with over 20 people at the social media breakfast.  we did things a little different by asking everyone to submit questions about facebook and then we as a group answered them.  it was very informative, here are the questions and the answers that the group came up with:

How do I set up a business page on facebook?
There is a link on the front page of Facebook, you have to have a personal facebook account first and you will create the business page under that.
Here's the link to get started: http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php

When you make your own fan page, how do you make it your own design?
Use Facebook Markup language.  http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/FBML

Is it best to post questions or comments?
Posting questions will usually generate a lot of comments from others on facebook, while comments are just a way to share your thoughts.

Facebook Pages vs Facebook Groups:
http://mashable.com/2009/05/27/facebook-page-vs-group/

How to use facebook and twitter together to promote a business?
Link the two accounts to spread the word to more people.

Is there a way to add a photo or video to a comment?
Put the link to the photo or video in your comment and facebook will automatically embed it.

Putting an RSS feed into your profile.
It is built into facebook or you can use twitterfeed: http://www.twitterfeed.com
Instructions on using twitterfeed:
http://www.helpdeskgoddess.com/2009/06/feeding-your-blog-into-your-twitter.html

what is RSS? real simple syndication http://www.whatisrss.com/

can you set it so your twitter updates become your facebook status updates?
set it up with selective twitter http://apps.facebook.com/selectivetwitter/ and then every tweet that ends in #fb will update your facebook status

can you "tweet" too much on facebook? yes

should you separate your business from your personal on facebook? yes, but it depends on the business