Sharing your videos to multiple places at the same time can increase not only how many people you can reach, but also how viewers discover your website.  By sharing your video to multiple places at once, as well as filling in the complete information with keyword descriptions and a link to your own website or [...]

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Need an easier way to tell the world a quick quote, your plans for the day, or about the big event coming up? Connect your Ping.FM account with all your profiles. Ping.FM functions as a hub to update your information across many platforms.

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How to Export Your Contacts and Scan Social Networks

by Courtney Engle in Blog, Tech Tips

As you create accounts on many social networks, the fastest way to find your existing contacts is to scan your address book.  But, this can be complicated if you are using a software email system, or have contacts on an email marketing platform.  Most social media platforms can scan Gmail, AOL mail, and Yahoo mail.  [...]

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Feedly: a prettier way to read Google Reader

by Courtney Engle in Blog, Tech Tips

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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Google Buzz Reviewed

by Courtney Engle in Blog, Tech Tips

After two days of using Google Buzz, here’s my own review of likes and dislikes:

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Google Buzz

by Courtney Engle in Blog, Tech Tips

Google Buzz has just been announced today.  It aggregates in all the social media activity of your accounts across many platforms into your Gmail.  Also, if you use Google Reader, or Picasa, or nearly any other Google service and have contacts in these places, it will synchronize back with your Gmail Contacts.  In order to [...]

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Tweetdeck Groups to Twitter Lists

by Courtney Engle in Blog, Featured Posts, Tech Tips

Having used Tweetdeck for nearly a year, I’ve invested much time into customizing my groups and how I view selected accounts there.  When Twitter announced the lists feature, I wanted to easily move my Tweetdeck groups to Twitter lists.  Finally, Tweetdeck has made a way for that to work easily.  Watch this video to learn [...]

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To keep your business operating, what additional businesses do you need to connect with?

printers
web hosts
graphic designers
electric
plumbing

Businesses need each other to build their own business. Mutually beneficial relationships help both businesses expand their success.   This is the basic premise behind attending Chamber of Commerce mixers, or other networking events.
True networking online
With sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and [...]

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Connecting with LinkedIn

by Courtney Engle in Blog, Featured Posts, Tech Tips

Nearly a year and a half ago I was invited by Dave Saunders to sign up for LinkedIn.  As any compulsive social media joiner, I created my account, and then abandoned it.  I hardly paid notice of it, until just the past few months that is.
What led to the switch?  Well, the obvious part about [...]

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Having a background in teaching technology and business education, I am often asked a wide variety of tech support issues.  As of lately, it is regarding social media as it relates to business.  I’ve seen a few people rush to these sites and systems with little regard to how to interact appropriately there.  The idea [...]

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