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Gravatar, Oh Gravatar

A what did you say?

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.

Just released! Social Media Industry Report

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.

What’s a Virtual Assistant?

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!

Mayo Clinic 20th Century health pioneer, 21st Century SM pioneer!

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.”

Mass Marketing De-massing?

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.

Brains, Golfing, and Earth Day-Are they connected?

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.

Pepsi bypasses SUPER bowl for Social Media

As an experiment in “Pepsi Generation”, pepsico opted out of its long running advertising campaign in the SUPER BOWL and instead ventured into some more interesting things in social media. You might not have the resources of Pepsi but social media can represent a new, inexpensive way to get the word out about your product or service. You can read one account of it here.

Keeping pace with your blog posts? Blogger Bugger arrives

Inspiration lacking on your periodic blogging?

Wish you had a buddy to bug you?

Need a nudge now and then to get the pen flowing?

Got writer’s block?

BLOGGER BUGGER is here to help!

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.

Expanding your audience

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.

What do I get?

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.

Sign up for a month at a time

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!