Category: Social media

  • What to do with your videos?

    What to do with your videos?

    Q:  We are preparing a couple of videos profiling our donors. They will be 1-2 minutes long. We are looking for guidance on how best to incorporate them into FB and our webpage. We think a link from FB to direct them to the page would be good. We wonder if they should be made…

  • 8 things to do if you can’t afford a website yet

    8 things to do if you can’t afford a website yet

    Starting a new business on a shoestring? Can’t afford to shell out a grand or two, or more, on a website? Here are 8 things you can do to get started, for free!

  • Does your Website Need a Forum? Problems & Alternatives

    Does your Website Need a Forum? Problems & Alternatives

    Web forums, at their best, can create remarkable communities that could never have existed before the internet. They bring together a large number of people from all over the world to focus on a specific topic or interest. Also known as message boards, forums are among the best things about the internet. Questions are asked and knowledge…

  • SPAM ALERT: “Domain Notification – This is your Final Notice of Domain Listing”

    SPAM ALERT: “Domain Notification – This is your Final Notice of Domain Listing”

    Watch out for this email spam that looks like a domain registration! It comes from “Domain Services” and the subject line is “Domain Notification – This is your Final Notice of Domain Listing” – and then your domain name in capital letters. Inside is this alarming-looking message: Note: It looks urgent. It looks official. However,…

  • SEO Trends

    SEO Trends

    Gone are the days when you can put your desired keywords in a meta keyword tag and expect them to work with the search engines. Google especially doesn’t look at meta keyword tags, preferring to analyze the text on the page itself to determine what the page is about. It goes back to the days…

  • Social media experiment by KLM generates big payoff

    The Dutch have a few things figured out when it comes to air travel. When the Icelandic volcano was wreaking havoc with air travel worldwide, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport was bringing in clowns and food to keep its travelers happy. Now Dutch airline company KLM has done a cool experiment, using its customer’s tweets on Twitter…

  • Facebook scores again

    I now have two clients who tried blogging, with the best of intentions, but didn’t keep it up.  One tried Twitter but that fizzled too.  Now, both have set up Facebook Pages, and have finally found their social medium. I can see many reasons why Facebook works for them: