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How to sustain a social media presence in 3 hours a week

March 18, 2011

Feel like you don’t have enough time to create a meaningful social media presence? In this post I spell out my step-by-step process for creating and maintaining a high value, useful blog and Twitter presence in just (I mean it!) 3 hours a week.

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5 steps to create your social media toolkit

March 16, 2011

Building a social media presence around a specific area of expertise is your best way to connect with a network and audience that cares about your work, and gets real value from your online contributions. This blog post walks you through the 5 steps that will get you up and running with three tools that will let you build and maintain a credible online presence as an expert: a Wordpress blog, a Google Reader account and a Twitter presence managed through HootSuite.

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11 ways Twitter can change your life, as told by its users

March 8, 2011

Online conversations change lives. That belief drives most of my work and writing, which is why I’m always so interested to hear people reflect on the ways that social media affects their relationships, career or self-image. A few months ago I collected some of these thoughts from bloggers in a post about how people say [...]

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There are motherf&!#ing blogs on the motherf&!#ing plane!

February 10, 2011

About an hour ago I tweeted the following: Desperately trying to think of a tweet that makes it clear I’m tweeting from the plane, w/out making it sound like that’s the point. The responses to this tweet were so fantastic that I just have to round them up: dethe: @awsamuel Just tweet your GPS coordinates, with [...]

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Using RockMelt with HootSuite and Feed.ly

November 11, 2010

For an overview of the RockMelt web browser, see part 1 of this series. The big advantage of RockMelt is the tight integration between browsing and sharing. To keep my Twitter account up-to-date with interesting resources on the meaningful use of technology, I currently use a combination of Google Reader (for subscribing to searches and [...]

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Using HootSuite as your Twitter dashboard

November 5, 2010

This week I’m offering an updated look at the Twitter methodology that helps me focus my attention on the people and news that matter most to me. As I put it in my post for the Harvard Business Review, this methodology lets me use Twitter as a tiny gym for my attention. I’m updating my [...]

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How Twitter lists can keep you connected to the relationships that matter most

November 3, 2010

Social media is all about being connected, we are often told. But who are you connecting with? Answering that question is crucial to using Twitter — or any social web tool — in a way that that supports your career, enriches your relationships and expands your perspective on the world around you. It’s easy to [...]

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Vancouver Sun list of 100 influential women in BC shows influence beyond Twitter

October 30, 2010

I woke up this morning to the delightful discovery that the Vancouver Sun included me in their list of BC’s top 100 influential women. With company like Alison Lawton, Cindy Lee, Susan Yurkovich, Annabel Lyon, Sarah McLachlan, Meeru Dhalwala, Cornelia Oberlander, and Christine Day — not to mention fellow social media geek Rebecca Bollwitt (a.k.a. [...]

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3 ways short links can help you drive traffic to your blog or web site

September 30, 2010

This week I showed a colleague a few of my favorite tricks with link shorteners — you know, the services that replace http://www.YourVeryLongURL.com/then-the-directory-name/plus-the-long-name-of-that-specific-page with http://bit.ly/sh0rtl1nks. After sharing some tips with her I realized they were worth writing down. Short links help you drive traffic to your web site or blog by making it easier to [...]

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5 ways to get authentically naked

July 13, 2010
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What’s the line between authenticity and over-disclosure? This post offers 5 ways you can keep track of the boundary between sharing and over-sharing.

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Techsperiment days 3 & 4: going out without Twitter

June 18, 2010

Our effort at keeping devices off during family time — roughly three hours a night — continues. The biggest challenge of day 4 came when I realized it was 5 pm, and I’d yet to log day 3. Would I grant myself an exception, and blog for a few minutes so that day 3 would get [...]

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