It’s a Long Time to Become an Overnight Success

It’s a Long Time to Become an Overnight Success

What does an overnight success look like to you?  How is it that someone can be rather unknown to many people, and then suddenly part of what everyone is sharing? Last week my Google Plus follower count rose to nearly tie what it’s taken me 4 years to accomplish in Twitter, just a mere 3 [...]

Three Words Revisited

At the beginning of the year, I joined in the blogging meme, 3 words. It’s time to check in on how I’m doing on that. To recap, three words I wanted to summarize me in 2011 are:

Create
Consistent
Results

Tumblr is still down, is self-hosting more reliable?

Tumblr is still down, is self-hosting more reliable?

Yesterday I began preparing to record a GFYD Member Tip of the Week, a training service we offer to train small business owners in social media. This week’s tip was to be an hour long jam-packed lesson on maximizing Tumblr for social networking and search engine optimization. However, this is what I found, not just on Tumblr, but also on well-known company sites that host everything on Tumblr – like Gary Vaynerchuck.

Google changes Gmail Contacts

Google changes Gmail Contacts

Tired of the old Google Contacts?  It was pretty frustrating and a bit awkward to even locate.  The Gmail team has been rolling out changes for where to find these contacts, making them also more useful in the process. Now the contacts area acts much as the rest of Gmail.  You can easily add new [...]

Using Google Reader to track LinkedIn Answers

Using Google Reader to track LinkedIn Answers

LinkedIn‘s Q&A is a great place to freely help others.  By giving answers to others, you are increasing your social media equity, as well as potentially creating referrals or even forming a business relationship.  However, remembering to go there and keep up with all the new questions can be tedious.  Learn how to pull the [...]

How to subscribe to news or blogs with Google Reader

How to subscribe to news or blogs with Google Reader

Rather than going out to get the news, have it delivered to you.  Look at the sites you read the most, whether news, sports, blog posts, or most anything else now comes with an RSS button (see the orange button).  Use that to have the news sent to your Google Reader account rather than having [...]

How to navigate Google Reader

How to navigate Google Reader

Google Reader is a powerful platform to have news delivered to you, see what others are reading and sharing, and to discover new sources of content for you to read.  It is how others may be reading your blog, so it’d be a great idea for you to read other blogs this way.  Often, this [...]

Google Reader: my biggest web addiction

Google Reader: my biggest web addiction

Google Reader was launched in 2005, and I’ve been hooked ever since.  Many people aren’t aware of the capabilities Google Reader has.  Think of it this way, rather than going out to check every possible website for new stories, you can have the news delivered to you.  With a little work, you can also turn [...]

Feedly: a prettier way to read Google Reader

Feedly: a prettier way to read Google Reader

Reading the news, blogs, and other ways of finding out what is happening in your specific industry is important to staying current.  For many, though, Google Reader isn’t the nicest thing to look at.  For those that want to use the features but with a better layout or design, add Feedly to Firefox of Flock.  [...]

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