The other day I was thumbing through some old facebook photos looking for a certain picture. I wanted to photochop something for someone’s birthday. In the process I was floored by the number of friends I have made. Some I have been fortunate enough to meet face to face, others I haven't …
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How to use Google Plus as email
Step One - plus this post => Google Plus is a little like Twitter, it’s a little like Facebook, and quite a few other things as well. Here’s how you can use Google Plus as email. The important thing to note here is that while I share something privately with someone or a group of …
Chris Morgan wants to be my friend
Yay! Just got an friend request from Chris Morgan! Here’s her profile http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000874118431 She looks a little familiar. Maybe I met her at a conference? Not sure, so I just went to her profile. She has posts on her wall, she has photo …
When Blog Comments Go From Awesome to Blatant Spam
As a regular blogger on various websites including my Social Media Advisors page for my business, you become excited when you receive a comment on your blog posts. You get this warm fuzzy feeling knowing that someone has not only taken the time to read your words of wisdom, but also taken the time …
Donate to a great cause and win a Custom Facebook Business Page
So, I got this so called friend “Gerry”. He sent me a t-shirt once after I nagged for over a year but that’s a different post for later. He’s doing a charity ride on his bicycle. He's riding for his 3rd time. As you can plainly see in the video he did last year that he’s not in …
More Newsletter DON’Ts: Thanks KW!
Just a week ago Clifford added me to his newsletter (without my permission) and via Constant Contact started sending UBE to me. Nice looking guy. Good looking newsletter. Probably some good content to. BUT It was also a perfect entry for Newsletters I never signed up for. That was 1 week ago …
When is the best time to update or add plugins?
Surprisingly, it’s not when you see the update button light up. Click on that button, update the plugins and you may find your blog dead. Out of order dead. Can’t even login dead. Fatal Error Dead. Won’t load for you or any visitor DEAD. Yeah, all that just from updating a simple plugin. …
Search, Sort, Sift and Filter. 4 things I want out of Google Plus
Recently, Robert Scoble identified a few of the things that were missing in Google Plus. The short story is that Robert knows a bunch of venture capitalists. He put them all in a circle called “VC’s” and then expected to be able to go to that circle and see a whole bunch of VC specific stuff. It …
Newsletters I never signed up for
Like many of you I used to go to conferences, networking events and other events and happily pass out my business card. Shortly after which I started seeing email newsletters show up in my inbox. I tried a different tactic. I now hand out custom laptop stickers that have my …
Blogging Rule #816: Comment Notification
Let’s get real for just a minute. I know people don’t wake up, turn on their computer, and type in the browser window h t t p : / / A r e W e C o n n e c t e d . c o m to see the latest happenings on the site. People arrive here from various referral sources. That could be a Google Search, …
Facebook Event Spam
Most of the time I just let things like this pass. Every now and again… Not so much. My email notification says I was just invited to an Open House! I really have to wonder why? After all, I’m not in the market, I don’t sell real estate, and the distance to this event is only 3,000 …
2 clicks to help an injured animal get around
UPDATE: At the end it was down to the wire. Unfortunately Healing HEART didn’t win. Then again, It’s not like anyone lost either. A good friend of mine runs an animal sanctuary in Kanab, Utah. She pours her heart and soul into doing everything she can to help injured or …
The Birthday Club
File this under “just another one of Mike’s crazy ideas”… You know that when you see an item in Amazon there’s almost always going to be some reviews. Sometimes the reviews are really helpful – right? Did you also know that sometimes the Amazon reviewers get a little overboard with the …
Thoughts on Censorship
I was watching some regular TV in the early evening and was a little surprised at some of the words they were able to say with having to bleep them out. You’ve probably noticed this as well. It got me to thinking about censorship. FOR THE RECORD I can swear like a sailor and often do (maybe even …
Richard Scott Powell
You will be missed! …
Are We Un Connected?
Long Story, Short? Quite the opposite. Many years ago I started a small group on Linkedin to better help agents dealing with the struggles of Short Sales. http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=76810 This was back in the days when Linkedin required you to submit a group for approval. Every …
Basic Skills
My friend Jerry Kidd wrote an excellent article “It’s no longer cool to not be technology literate” and I completely agree. But then I started thinking (Danger Will Robinson!) What would be the basic skill set a person who wants to actively engage in new media marketing need? Here’s …
Just do it! (getting started in video)
Yup - Just do it! Nike nailed it. It doesn’t matter if it’s blogging, podcasting, running a Facebook Page, or twitter. It could be writing a novel, or beginning a new career in photography or running a marathon. None of it happens if you don’t first START. As it pertains to this topic …
How a Hard Core SEO Guy Learned to Live with Facebook and Twitter
Before I finish writing a sentence in this very respectable blog, let me preface this by making a confession: I am utterly terrified of social media. I didn't have a personal Facebook account until I had to. I sometimes still catch myself saying sardonic remarks under my breath about Twitter (at …
Making a +K difference
You might have noticed a few tweets in your stream announcing that one person has given a +K to another person. What’s a +K? Think of it as a way of giving Props to someone else. If you have a Klout score anyone can give you a +K on any of the topics Klout seems to think you know …