What is Social Media?

Social Media (SM) has lately developed a lot of buzz for anyone looking either to promote something (often themselves) or to stay current on the latest news trends. The questions most often asked are: “What is Social Media”, “Where is Social Media”, and “How to use social media for Marketing”. What is Social Media? In a nutshell, social media is any media form that displays itself to an open public – AND – encourages interaction between the...

Find Out When That Hot Twitter ID Becomes Available to Grab! (Free tool Does the work so you don’t have to!)

Learn When That Hot Twitter ID  You've Been Waiting For Becomes Available to Grab! In my case, while @kim was taken by someone actually using it (good for her!), other derivatives of my name or brand name were all being “squatted”. Either they were intentionally being held by someone to keep them out of play – or – they had been registered by someone that rapidly got bored with twitter. Either way, they were not in...

Facebook Fan Pages vs Facebook Groups

Are you maximizing your Facebook exposure? I recently realized that I wasn't! I saw countless businesses with pages and posts and profiles and groups and gaggles, and I didn't have a clue where to start! First, I’m going to share my thoughts and summary on the two types. Then  I want to share three high-quality blog posts that I found on other sites, which I thought did a awesome job clarifying things for me. Hopefully these...

Caps Off To Internet Social Memes

Definition of a Meme (pronounced /ˈmiːm/, rhyming with “cream”): Meme a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation) Meme is a philosophical unit of a packet of information. It is the unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Internet meme is a phrase used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads...

How To: Change Your Twitter Name Without Losing Followers

Step 1: Change Your UserName Go to Twitter (login) -> Settings (upper right). Click Settings and in the page that opens, in the USERNAME field, type in your desired new name. Twitter will give you feedback about the “taken” or “available” status of your desired name. (In my case, I couldn’t get exactly what I wanted, but @Ask_KimC is pretty close!) All follower’s are automagically updated to be following your new twitter name! How cool is that? However…. You knew there was a gottcha, didn’t ya? Step 2: Any client that you use to...

What To Do If Your Twitter Account Is Hacked

Suddenly the phone rings and your best friend asks you why there is crazy stuff on your twitter account…. You get an email from a business partner asking when you started partnering with company XYZ to post their advertisements… You’re twitter followers drop by 1000 in one day … You start seeing things on your twitter wall with your name on them that you didn’t (and never would have!) wrote…. Steps To Take When Your Twitter Account is Hacked Step 1: Don’t panic. Seriously, I know your heart is racing and your stomach hurts when your twitter...

#Blogchat – A Blogger's Hidden Twitter Resource!

If like me, your new new to twitter, it may seem strange to you to discover that beneath the surface of what appears like waves of disconnected comments, there is “threads” that act like a “old-fashioned” chat room! I had heard rumor of this exotic creature but it wasn’t until tonight that I stumbled into being able to observe it first hand! All of this centers around hashtags, those #words, which can be used to join seemingly disjointed comments....