Every Dot Connects

Is your communications strategy stuck here?

Do you know what these are? They were the height of communications convenience at one time. They were everywhere. Everyone knew how to use them. Now, they’re seen less and less, and most folks chuckle a bit when they spot one. The communications world has passed them by. Did they see it coming? I’ll bet [...]

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Quick-launch tips for LinkedIn

My first piece of advice is that you DON’T want to “quick-launch” on LinkedIn; do it slowly and deliberately and do it right the first time. What? You say you’ve just been laid off, or there’s some other career crisis, and you didn’t “dig your [networking] well before you’re thirsty?” OK, it happens. In our [...]

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Shaking the social media tree in the tourism business

I’m doing some writing and marketing work for the travel site UpTake; in addition to hosting my Carnival of Cities blog carnival periodically on their Attractions blog, I’ll be covering travel industry social media topics on the UpTake Travel Industry blog. To get started with a bit of a bang, I wrote two posts this [...]

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Teaching the teachers: what we’ve learned from our social media workshops

In June 2008, after a lot of talks with Connie Reece, reflection time at the SOBCon conference and great advice from both Small Biz Survival’s Becky McCray and Successful Blog’s Liz Strauss, we began to teach a series of entry-level Every Dot Connects social media workshops. Connie, Jennifer Navarrete and I knew that we had [...]

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Podcast: Connie and Sheila talk social media

Connie Reece and and I joined the Blog Talk Radio program Tech in Twenty to talk about how we are using social media tools…. for good, like the Frozen Pea Fund for cancer research and for business, like our client’s HomeAway Getaway contest for bloggers, photographers and video bloggers. Here’s the link if you’d like [...]

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