Social Media

Social media tips, tricks, and ideas I learned from around the blogsphere.

New Social Bookmarking Image Organizer Tool

New Social Bookmarking Image Organizer Tool

Clipix is a new social bookmark, image sharing, online organization tool that boasts, “We never post without your permission, we hate that too!” Being rather impressed by that privacy proclamation, I continued with the sign up for my own Clipix account via Twitter. The tool can read your Twitter timeline and see whom you follow, that’s it! Once you sign up for a Clipix account, simply drag the clip button to your preferred browser toolbar. Any website you want to bookmark or share, simply clip it to a clipboard. Sound familiar? My Favorite Clipix Features Organization Organizing cool and important online images via a board is not new idea. However, collaborating boards with friends, family, or colleagues via Syncboard is. Clipping is in real-time therefore when a collaboration user adds a clip to a Syncboard, everyone else in the group will see it in real-time. Moreover, if you are as unorganized as I am, grouping clipboards using Mutliboards takes...

Read more »

Google+ First Impression | Top Women Bloggers 2011

Google+ First Impression | Top Women Bloggers 2011

Can you imagine how exited the midlife woman was to be invited AND get in Google+? Thanks to Gera for the invite, my much-anticipated entry was granted. Woo Hoo. Happy Dance. Bartender, a round of drinks for everyone, I’m in! Using Google+ for about a month now, I thought you might enjoy my Journey of Circles and an introduction to a few Google+ 2011 Top Women Bloggers. The Google+ news from my favorite bloggers – Google+ Cheat Sheet, How to be Less Annoying in Google+, and 50 Bloggers Worth Following on Google+  had me raring to get in. Yet, and in part due to extensive reading and anticipation, my first impression of Google+ was not as expected.  In fact, after a few days of using Google+ I found it rather boring. What’s more, learning this first impression was common among my invites who were less informed bloggers – comments such as “Still trying to figure this out Kathy” and “I’m here,...

Read more »

Is the Social Media Landscape Influencing your Family?

Is the Social Media Landscape Influencing your Family?

Social media seems to be just about everywhere these days. Whereas people used to stand next to their friends and chat with them, now they’re deciding how many of the ten different bands on Myspace they want to allow to friend them. And how long has it been since people sent their messages through a phone, using that antique thing people used to call “their voice?” These are just the possible musings of people who predate the current fixation with social media and excessive reliance on technology. Let’s take a look at some of the new realities that social media is imposing on family life. Consider how about only ten years or so ago, kids used to beg their parents for cell phones. Do not feel old if you can remember when they used to beg for pagers – that was only 20 years ago. But now, it seems like the latest smart phone grows out of a child’s...

Read more »

Twitter Tools – Twitter Addictions Cured

Twitter Tools – Twitter Addictions Cured

Blogging is especially exciting for the novice. Social media and networking in the course of blog promotion can be even more exciting.  Successful, professional bloggers warn that a lack of understanding and discipline in using twitter, facebook, and other social media sites can be a huge waste of your valuable time. Hi. My name is Kathleen and I am a midlife A.D.D. Twitter addict. The 140 character messages along with the ability to tweet from anywhere, anytime, became an unsuccessful addiction.  The infatuation snowballs and before you know it, BAM three hours have passed and the daily to do list went untouched. I have to admit, blogging and social networking has been a great pleasure and truthfully a huge diversion to inexorable midlife complexities. However, this level of wasted time is obsessive, unacceptable and a lot like a drug addiction. I was warned. Shame on me! Some time ago, I read Patricia’s post Comments Do Not Equal Sales. She is a brilliant writer, a passionate...

Read more »

The Retweet Killer

Do you use Twitter often, I do. In fact, I might like tweets and tweeting more than comments and commenting. That may be due to my dislike for typing or sometimes loss for the proper words. Perhaps I am simply a lurker at heart, I dunno. I perceive tweets this way not only are they faster and easier than comments but also shared with lots of other social media sites. Now I’m no tech specialist, social media expert, or have any other credentials for that matter. I find the tech stuff fascinating and programming quite interesting thus reading a wide variety blogs. I came across Sysomos.com, a social media analysis service and provider, who recently posted an extensive annual data comparison concerning Twitter users. Sysomos found a whopping 44% of the total Twitter population joined between January 2009 and Aug 2010.  What’s more, Twitter user info increased immensely in 2010. According to the article: - 82% of Twitter users now...

Read more »

2011 Top Women Bloggers – Reputable Blog Tool Advice

Selecting a social media tool, understanding traffic analysis, or using browser tools, the newbie blogger is overwhelmed by the countless available blogging tools never mind trying to decide who is providing reputable information on a specific subject. Implementing my 2011 resolution to share blogging experiences I begin with this personal mistake: Believing AND carrying out blog advice simply because a post or several posts were well written. Multiple Twitter Accounts = Assured Blog Traffic, Not! Twitter is, in my opinion, has the smallest learning curve of the social media networks. The other item that makes Twitter a favorite is the character limit. Somewhere, and more than once, I read one SHOULD hold twitter accounts for each blog niche. This surely would improve blog traffic. At the time, I had just one Twitter account and it was linked to my food blog with about 400 followers. Hmmm thought the newbie in me, two Twitter accounts sounded excellent. Eager to promote...

Read more »

Women and Social Networks

When someone says social media, the immediate thought is Facebook or perhaps Twitter.com or maybe even LinkedIn. As we all know, the social media-networking scene has exploded. There are literally hundreds of social media networks emerging targeting nearly every topic, interest group, or service imaginable. Women are no exception or strangers to this network explosion. Ben Parr, the co-editor of Mashable.com, wrote an interesting article concerning young women and Facebook. This is the intro: “Young women are becoming more and more dependent on social media and checking on their social networks, according to a new study released earlier today by Oxygen Media and Lightspeed Research. In fact, as many as one-third of women aged 18-34 check Facebook when they first wake up, even before they get to the bathroom.” Many bloggers wrote about the NBCU study when it first emerged in July 2010. The study included about 1600 women. While the study did acknowledge the use of the social...

Read more »

Switch to our mobile site