Your link to leaping into Social Media
Want to insert a picture into your post or page on your WordPress blog?Chief Blogger and staff have added another quicktip video on inserting a picture on your blog post or page. Click here or the picture to link to the video and start posting with your favorite pictures today!
Did you ever want to have a hyperlink that emailed to you? Did you ever want an email hyperlink in your Wordpress post or page?If you did you’ve come to the right place. This need came up during the Social Media Marketing class. Our Chief Blogger studied it and found an even easier way (Rita was on the right track). So rather than make detailed intstructions, he went to the cyber-wigwam and made a video. He’s not starring in it but it’s a screen capture video so you can play it and replay it as many times as you like. It is REALLY, QUITE EASY!!! Check out the video or click on the Chief. By the way, in the meantime we’ve added a VIDEO tab to the main navigation so you can visit often for other short tutorials.
Did you ever want to have a hyperlink that emailed to you? Did you ever want an email hyperlink in your Wordpress post or page?If you did you’ve come to the right place. This need came up during the Social Media Marketing class. Our Chief Blogger studied it and found an even easier way (Rita was on the right track). So rather than make detailed intstructions, he went to the cyber-wigwam and made a video. He’s not starring in it but it’s a screen capture video so you can play it and replay it as many times as you like. It is REALLY, QUITE EASY!!! Check out the video or click on the Chief. By the way, in the meantime we’ve added a VIDEO tab to the main navigation so you can visit often for other short tutorials.
The Globally Recognized Avatar or Gravatar is a universal logo supported by all the bloggers in the WWW universe. A gigantic catalog of icons or logos that is keyed to your email helps identify you as you blog or comment on other people’s blogs. You can easily set up your Gravatar in the settings page of a wordpress.com blog. Or, you can go directly to gravatar.com. Canadian Christine McIvor has a neat little YouTube video that describes the process – Click Here. She doesn’t get into a lot of detail about uploading the image but if you need help you can contact chiefblogger@tpmtech.biz. She does have an extensive series of video tutorials on a wide range of topics including blogging and social media. Check out Christine’s site here.
Want to see what businesses are planning for Social Media for 2010?Michael Stelzner, from the Social Media Examiner, has just published a colorful and insightful report on what’s happening with Social Media and what businesses are planning to do to utilize it. You can download the full report from the site. Micheal also has a short video clip reviewing the highlights of the report. You can visit the Social Media Examiner site and download the report here. The report also validates the framework that Lept Like A Blog clients are using is sound practice at the leading edge of Social Media.
Looking for someone to free you of the minutia that keeps you from attacking the really big stuff?Consider a Virtual Assistant or VA. Wikipedia estimates there may be as many as 35,000 VA’s worldwide. See their definition here. We are lucky to have a service right here in the Chicagoland area. Laura Witlox has established The Persistent Assistant to take care of your every minutia need. Her staff is experienced in “Just get ‘er done” and all are ready to attack your growing TO-DO list. You can read about The Persistent Assistant services and client experiences at the Blog, Facebook, Twitter, or web-site. Not sure if they can help you? Feel free to call Laura and she will tell you whether they can be of assistance!
One of my favorite organizations, the Mayo Clinic has shown us all up. They experimented and embraced Social Media early. They epitomize a real leader in their industry. Long respected in the 20th century for paving the way for more effective health care structures they have continued that tradition in the 21st century with social media. You can see an unbelieivable blog site by clicking here. Another article from the Jacksonville Business Journal reviews the history of their social media endeavors. Read it here. My favorite quote from this article is:
“Having a company Web site is so five years ago. Social media — the umbrella term for blogs, social networks, photo video and podcasts, and other user-generated mediums — is the new era. And the possibilities are seemingly endless.”
Read more: Health care meets social networking – Jacksonville Business Journal:
Interesting perspective on mass marketing. Social media is garnering a lot of lip service about its potential to replace traditional advertising. WordPress, Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin are making in-roads to changing the face of consumerism. Here is an interesting perspective. Watch the video by clicking here.
Follow the exploits of local water expert Laurie from LTM Water as she expounds on why you want to buy a filter instead of be a filter! She has done a nice job in setting up her blog and is posting about how water is connected to Earth Day, Golf and Brains. See her blog by clicking here. You can also read what NGM has to say about water by clicking on the cover.
Inspiration lacking on your periodic blogging?A new service bugs bloggers to keep the bits flowing on their social media marketing communications. All authors at one time or another suffer from writer’s block. Sometimes, we need a kick in the butt or a new idea to get us inspired. Just like your publisher bugging you in the print world, now there is an online service for those 21st century author/publishers. The Blogger Bugger service is just the ticket to keep you posting on a timely basis.
Blogger Bugger subscribers receive regular reminders on getting their blogs “to press” or on-line as the case may be. Once signed up you become a Bugged Blogger. Your posts are republished on the Blogger Bugger Blog for additional exposure. Bugged Bloggers get weekly and monthly reminders (sent right to your Outlook) about their upcoming deadlines. If you post on time, you get BUG GUTS instead of a creepy reminder email. Either way, each communication receives a friendly tip from the world of on-line publishing.
Blogger Bugger monitors your tweets and facebook posts on a weekly basis for updates about your monthly blog topic.
Blogger Bugger monitors your blog and sends reminders when it is time to post an update. If you meet the on-line publish date on time you get a friendly atta-boy, the BUG GUTS.
In each communication you get a timely tip from the on-line, world-wide social media community to inspire your next posts.
When you feel you have the self determination to keep on schedule you can drop your subscription at any time.
TPM Technologies is offering this service for lept Like A Blog customers to establish the momentum for timely and self-energizing blog posting.
BLOG ON and email Blogger Bugger to get “BUGGED” on your blog today!