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Pictures to print | Colouring in. Braunston - Northamptonshire - Heart of the Waterways. How to Use Twitter Shorthand Codes. 10 websites to find free images for your blog. 10 Reasons Why I Don't Retweet You & Your Content. Do you spend your day begging for retweets? Are you “that guy” or “that girl” that everyone avoids on Twitter and Facebook? I never thought I would be one to write a post on this topic. However, I am being asked numerous times a day by people I don’t know to share their content. I also often get asked why I don’t retweet tweets or share blog posts if I so choose not to. So, I figured it was a good time to provide a quick summary of my philosophy of retweeting and sharing content. The purpose of this post is not to explain or provide details of how I tweet in general. Key criteria for selecting the content I share. RelevantOffers benefit to audienceUnique perspectiveNot already written or said by a million others in the same way.TimelyAccurateFrom a trusted sourceData sources are backed up and cited. 10 Reasons Why I Don’t Retweet You & Your Content 1. 2. 3. 4.

Been there, done that! 5. 6. Too many characters.Poor title.Too many hashtags.URL has issues. 7. 8. 9. 10. What You Say? 7 Tips for Writing Blog Posts Faster. Writing consistently will help you to create blog posts faster. 1. Write consistently. One of the best ways to improve in anything is to do it consistently. Writing is certainly no exception. 2. While there are times when it makes a lot of sense to slave over a blog posts and spend hours and hours on it, if you do that all the time, you’ll seldom publish blog posts and eventually give up.

Don’t make yourself crazy by trying to be perfect. 3. There’s something about routines of any type that remove much of the thinking that has to happen when you do something. 4. Blogging templates don’t have to be anything fancy. Use a timer to help you write blog posts faster. 5. I find that playing a game of “beat the clock” can help me write blog posts faster. I may need to go back later and edit the blog post a bit, but the hard work of the first draft can be done in a short amount of time that I allot, such as 30 minutes. 6. 7. Your Turn: What are your tips for writing blog posts faster? How to use Pinterest for business - 14 great tips. By now you have no doubt heard about Pinterest, the virtual "pin" board and online scrapbook that is the current social media darling. Pinterest is the fastest growing social network and has been driving more traffic to online publishers than Twitter or LinkedIn or Google+ the past few months - and Pinterest has become the go-to site for women aged 25-34.

Pinterest wasn't designed to be a business tool (with Pinterest stating the site should not be used for self-promotion), but that hasn't stopped retailers and businesses with a visual bent from setting up shop there. It may not have started out that way, but Pinterest can mean business. To help you determine if Pinterest is right for your business and learn how best to use the social media tool to drive traffic to your site or store, we surveyed Pinterest pros and came up with 14 ways to make your business pinteresting. 1. 2.

Pinterest is currently invite-only. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Be sure to follow, like and repin others. 11. 12. Pinterest: Just what exactly is on it? 2 March 2012Last updated at 10:48 By Lauren Everitt BBC News Magazine Hype is growing about the social media website Pinterest, with much fanfare after it passed 10 million users in record time. But what is actually on this online pinboard? There's still a healthily high percentage of people who have heard nothing about Pinterest, but its meteoric rise is exciting social media experts and marketing analysts. Nearly 12 million users from the US and UK flocked to the virtual bulletin board in January to pin up pictures of their favourite things. Pinterest allows users to curate collections of images from across the web under different "boards" or categories.

The site has already been satirised as being largely dominated by pictures of cute kittens and elaborately conceived cupcakes. Pinterest does not respond to media inquiries, but it's possible to use Google's DoubleClick Ad Planner to examine both the user demographics and their main interests. Pictures beat words on Pinterest. Birds on the Blog - Business Women of Opinion! Michelle Shaeffer: Simplifying Business Chaos. Video Fears - Episode One - The How2 Girl TV.

Pinpuff - Your Influence Score on Pinterest and Your Pin Worth - Pin Clout - Advertise on Pinterest. Getting over your PinPhobia! Speaking to several clients lately has revealed there is a new social media fear emerging … The fear of pinning pictures on Pinterest! Now this isn’t altogether surprising, a few months ago there was a slew of articles about Pinterest’s terms and conditions and the possibility that pinning a picture from someone else’s website could end up with you in court getting a whole lot of legal costs pinned on you!

However since then Pinterest have tweaked their terms and conditions, showing that they are a site prepared to listen to their users! And if you still feel wary look to see whether the we site has a ‘pin it’ button, like the one you see on the picture above. If they do it seems unlikely that they will be unhappy about you pinning it! If you are a professional photographer or an artist you may well be concerned that people could steal your images. But you needn’t be; the size of the pictures pinned makes them difficult to use anywhere other than online. My personal Pinphobia… The 10 Commandments of Using Pinterest for Business. Peter Bregman: What’s On Your To-Don’t List? - At Work.

PechaKucha 20x20. Who Googled You? This Website Knows. After a date, a pitch or a job interview, there's a good chance you're going to get Googled. Online reputation manager BrandYourself now helps you figure out who is searching for your name. The startup, which helps individuals control Google results for names through SEO, launched a new feature on Tuesday that shows users where visitors to their BrandYourself profiles work and where they're located. BrandYourself built a database of organizations' publicly-available IP addresses in order to create the feature. They use it to match IP addressees of profile visitors with the companies that own those addressses.

Visitors most frequently reach BrandYourself profiles through Google, but the feature works the same way if visitors reach a user's profile from another search engine or website. The system isn't foolproof. While it's easy to track down IP addresses for large organizations, many smaller companies won't be listed. Themeleon :: Twitter Profile Designer by COLOURlovers. Social Diva School. Should you link Twitter to LinkedIn©? | The Linked In Man. 10 Little Known Social Media Tools You Should Be Using -- Now. Editor's note: A version of this article previously appeared at KISSmetrics.com. Social media is everywhere. It's in our homes, places of worship, schools and, of course, our businesses. Everywhere you look, people are using social media and are talking about it. And it seems that every week a new type of social site pops up.

And as the number of social networking sites grows, so does the number of services that are created to measure, track and monitor those services. To help you cut through the clutter, here are the 10 must-use social media tools that can not only help you make sense of your social media efforts but make them more effective. 1. With it, you can get a snapshot of your month-to-month content with the calendar feature. Who should use it and why: Any business owner who manages a multi-author website should give EditFlow a look. 2. 3. If you'd like to be an affiliate, you can use ArgyleSocial's white label brand and resell the social media platform to your clients. 4. 5. 6. 10 Tips for Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Business.

Policy. It can be a dirty word, especially in social media communities. Why? Poorly written social media policies restrict, deter and deaden social media engagement–the exact opposite of what businesses want. However, great social media policies support, protect and empower high-quality engagement. It is about empowerment and trust. As Beth Kanter writes, “Trust is cheaper than control.” This article will explain how social media policies differ from other policies and give you 10 tips to help create an effective social media policy.

Why Social Media Policies? Social media policies are different. The risks are uncertain. Given an uncertain environment and unclear risks, how do we move forward? There are hundreds of sample social media policies on the Internet. However, in order to create policies that work – really work – we must first lay the groundwork. Here are 10 strategies you can implement today. #1: Gather Your Team A social media policy cannot be written by one person alone. 4 Ways to Increase Your Facebook Page Visibility. Have you noticed less interaction on your Facebook page in the last few months? Getting your updates to appear in the coveted news feed is more challenging than ever. I don’t have answers as to how the elusive Facebook algorithm works. What I do have are some suggestions on how to ensure that your page posts are being seen by your fans to give your page the maximum visibility.

UPDATE: Be sure to check out the new Facebook Pages for more up-to-date information. Facebook rolled out the new Timeline design to Business Pages after this article was published. #1: Train Your Audience to Watch for Your Content You want to make sure you are delivering good content so that your audience won’t want to miss a thing. When you are delivering good content, interacting and building a community, your fans will come to your page on their own when they haven’t seen your posts. Your fans will come find you if you are delivering good content. But then what? #3: Tell Your Audience to Create a Favorite Pages List. Ragan.com. PowerPoint. Yammer. BBC iPlayer. Facebook.

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