In the past, my daily activity has always been very… scattered. I honestly wasn’t getting that much work done and spent way too much time flipping between Twitter and Facebook. Here’s how things have changed in the last few months: 1) No more browsing Twitter […]
Tag: Social Media
The Single Most Important Social Media Site for Growing Your Blog
What’s the best social media site? Which site do I need to be on? What social media will help me grow my traffic the best? In 2013 I wrote a post on the most important social media sites for growing your blog. The lovely Ariel […]
My Favourite Facebook Groups for Blogging, WordPress & Business
Facebook groups are a huge thing now. Screw Facebook pages. Screw life updates. Screw cute cat pictures. (Not really, I still love those!) …Hello groups! Groups are a great way for you to connect with like-minded people, make connections, ask and answer questions, and even […]
It’s Not Personal, But Let’s Not Be Facebook Friends
I’m really weird about Facebook. I like keeping my list of Facebook friends to only people I know in person. That means family and real life friends. I ignore all friend requests from online friends and clients/customers. It’s not personal. I’m just weird about Facebook. […]
Harness the Power of StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is an under appreciated social media site. I visit a lot of blogs, and most of the ones I visit have social share buttons, but no button for StumbleUpon! Now, to be fair, I don’t think that book blogging posts do particularly well on […]
Naked Social Share: Unstyled Social Media Buttons for Designers
When I redesigned Nose Graze I wanted to get rid of my old social share buttons. They didn’t match my design and sometimes they really slowed down the page. I wanted social share buttons that actually matched my design, integrated seamlessly, showed the share numbers, […]
Remove Your Share Buttons from Your Homepage
One of my pet peeves are blogs that have excerpts on their homepage AND social share buttons. Here are two awesome reasons why you should not put social share buttons on your homepage: It looks cluttered. This is mostly the case if you use the […]
Why I Unfollowed You on Twitter
It’s pretty rare that I make the decision to unfollow someone on Twitter, but it does happen now and then. Here are five reasons why I might unfollow you: 1. You have too many automated tweets You know what my major pet peeve is? When […]
Are You Allowed to Use Modified Social Media Icons?
Here’s a great question that I received recently: Is it true that custom-made social media icons that match the blog is infringing on copyright laws? I see so many use them but reading Facebook & Twitter’s terms it sounds like it’s illegal to change the […]
Twitter Spam… Or is it Marketing?
I kind of got into a mini argument with an author on Twitter and I’m curious to see how you guys feel about it. Some authors will tweet things like: Epic new fantasy novel out now! Only $0.99 on Amazon! [url] They’re talking about their […]