social media

StumbleUpon: Feminism Isn’t About Pretty Pink Paper Dolls

December 6, 2011




I like StumbleUpon. It is a great way to share and discover content on topics that interest me. If you’re not familiar with it, you can check out my guest post about StumbleUpon and how it works on Kids in the Capital. Today when I went on the site, they were promoting the “new” StumbleUpon, [...]

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Is Blogging your Santa Claus?

October 22, 2011




Years ago, a little girl asked the editor of the New York Sun an important question. Virginia wrote: DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth; is there a [...]

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Erring On The Side of Caution

May 5, 2011




Some conversations on social media are fleeting. Here today, forgotten tomorrow. Some stick with you forever. Others, forgotten for a while, can come back to haunt. This is the story of one of those conversations. A frustrated mother, twitter, and the police Back in 2009, a mother frustrated by bedtime battles with her daughter vented [...]

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What interested you and riled you up in 2010

December 30, 2010




I recently started using a new analytics program called PostRank. Unlike regular stats programs that tell you how many people viewed your post, it tells you how engaged people were with your post. Did they share it on facebook or twitter or somewhere else? Did they leave a comment? Did they link back to it [...]

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Social Media School Snack!

September 7, 2010




My kids both have a great little tasty package waiting for them in their lunch boxes today. It is the culmination of searching, testing, shopping, hinting, and baking. So what are those, you may ask? They are mini nut-free granola balls, similar to the very unhealthy sugary processed packaged ones my kids constantly begged me [...]

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Are you protecting your social capital?

April 18, 2010




No analogies today. I’m just going to tell it like it is. The number of brand ambassadors, twitter parties and blogger trips is growing exponentially. As it does, I’m starting to pull my hair out. I hate seeing people that I like, whose company I enjoy, whose judgment I usually respect, put their ethics and [...]

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Nestle online charm offensive = lipstick on a pig

February 6, 2010




Seems someone has been beating up on Nestle in the social media world. In fact, it is so bad that they had to fly in a bunch of PR firms into their headquarters in Switzerland to brief them on Nestle’s need for help charting a path through social media. According to Arun Sudhaman’s article, Nestle [...]

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Nestle Answers: How Nestle uses social media

November 29, 2009




This is the last in a series of posts that features Nestle’s answers to my questions that came out of the Nestle Family event. To access the other questions and answers, go to follow-up questions for Nestle and click on the questions you are interested in. Answers will be posted as they are received and [...]

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IComLeavWe November 2009 on speed

November 18, 2009




Have you heard of IComLeavWe? Last November I participated in NaBloPoMo, which is National Blog Posting Month. That means I put up a post every single day. It was a great way to recharge my blogging batteries and just get a bunch of ideas that I had been percolating out there. This year, I’m tired. [...]

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Would like your input

November 16, 2009




I’m working on one of my posts in response to Nestle and would love your input. Please take a look at my request: How should Nestle use social media? Thanks!

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