I just mentioned in my post about Facebook Home, that the fine folks at Facebook are always changing things! Graph search launched recently which enables several things such as real text searching on Facebook. With this also comes the ability to optimize your website for Graph Search. Read more about what you can do to… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Social Media
Please Vote for Me in the 2013 Top 25 Tech Mom Blogger Contest
Yes, it is that time of year again! Last year thanks you all of you I made it to the 2012 list of the Top 25 Tech Mom Bloggers at Circle of Moms. Can you help me win again this year? PRETTY PLEASE. It is an awesome honor to be recognized. Voting is super simple. Just… Continue Reading
Social Media Drives Holiday Purchasing Decisions
Yep… we pretty much know this by now. When holiday shopping we want to know what our friends, colleagues, and most of all… social media savvy peers think of products before we buy. We read Amazon reviews. We ask on FB what our friends recommend. We tweet. And we read blog reviews. Clever Girls Collective… Continue Reading
Infographic: 30 Ways to Promote a Blog Post
As bloggers, the most important thing to most of us is to know that someone is reading our posts. Despite what some think the saying “If you write it they will come” does not always work. If you want to get your content in front of eyes, you have to promote it. This could be… Continue Reading
Join Me for a Plantronics Voyager Together Twitter Party
There used to be a time when I did not like talking on the phone much. But as a busy mom running a business phone calls are now a major part of my life. Calls are no longer limited to being home at my desk. I sometimes have to participate in a conference call from my… Continue Reading
Tips For Companies & PR Doing Blogger Outreach Part 2
In the last post, Tips For Companies & PR Doing Blogger Outreach Part 1, were my first few general tips for PR reaching out to bloggers. Some tips are more specific to PR wanting bloggers to do reviews, sponsored posts, or more. I have heard some stories recently that made me cringe, or I have… Continue Reading
Tips For Companies & PR Doing Blogger Outreach Part 1
As I started writing this post, I thought that it would be a bit short and sweet. Over 1100 words later, I was still writing. So, I have decided to break it up into 2 posts. Whew! We can all learn from our mistakes… business owners, moms, husbands, wives, bloggers, and… PR agencies. I am… Continue Reading
Google+ Adds New Features for Businesses
One way or another, basically all of us use Google. We either use it to search for something that we’re looking for online, we have a Gmail account, or we use Google + or Google Apps. If you are someone who falls into the last two categories (or all three), then you will probably be… Continue Reading
Facebook Spam Emails Confuse Friends and Users
Over the past couple of weeks I have gotten several emails from friends that I know well. The subject is always “for Kris”. However, upon opening the email it is obvious that it is spam. The from email address is a bogus address and there is nothing in the email but a shady link. Do… Continue Reading
AMD Back-to-School Twitter Party Tonight!
Yep… summer is just about over and everyone is going back to school. Whether your child is starting kindergarten, sixth grade, high school, or college chances are that technology is playing a role. AMD would like to help that along. Join myself, the other AMD tech moms, and representatives from AMD for a fun Twitter… Continue Reading
Exclusive Invite to Join Embly’s Social Gifting Service with Giveaway
I LOVE gift cards. Let me rephrase… I love gift cards that I will actually use. I have a plastic gift card for a well-known store in my house right now that I have had for over a year waiting for the perfect occasion to spend it. I decided recently that had come. And guess… Continue Reading
Join the AMD Tech Moms Tonight For a Summer Vacation Twitter Party
Summer is officially here!! Sure the weather has been awesome for while, but it was still not *summer*. The start of summer for me was marked by my kids FINALLY being out of school. They got out on Friday, June 15 and I think that I was more excited than they were. LOL! Now that… Continue Reading
Join Me for the Intel What About Me Twitter Party
Have you ever wondered how your social media presence is viewed by others? If asked what you tweet about, do you actually know? How about your Facebook statuses? Are they consistently about the same thing? If you were able to analyze it… you may just be surprised. Intel’s What About Me tool does just that.… Continue Reading
Is Your Company Using Social Media?
As I sit and watch Twitter, meet brands and interact with them both online and in person I have developed my own favorite list of companies that get social media. There are those out there that realize that if they are not involved in social media, they are missing the party boat. Social Media is… Continue Reading
Am I the Only One Not Addicted to Pinterest?
I really feel like I did not get the memo. Yes, I have a Pinterest Account. But, if you look at my page you will see there is not much there. Why? I am not sure. I don’t really get the whole “OMG…. I lose hours a day browsing Pinterest” thing. And you know what?… Continue Reading
The Bully Project: IRL and Online Bullying Needs to Stop
Thanks to The Bully Project for sponsoring my writing. Visit their website to join the movement and learn more. We hear quite a bit about the subject of bullying in the news. It is nothing new. Bullying has been around since kids have been around, which is well… forever. Each year about… Continue Reading
5 Tips for Striking a Balance in Social Media
If you catch this post in time you can catch me on tonight with Chris Curtis on Tech Tuesday at 7pm EST covering this subject. Click the link in her post to listen live. Remember when the only real site out there considered a social media site was Myspace? We all thought it was so… Continue Reading
Guest Post: The Nuts and Bolts of Future Proofing an Online Reputation
Online reputation is not only important to individuals, but to businesses as well. One wrong move in social media and the internet will unleash a wrath against a brand in a moments notice. In order to fix such a #fail, your business might need a reputation service. The below post tells us a bit about… Continue Reading
Six Ways to Increase Your Online Influence By Interacting Offline
Facebook, Twitter, andSome people write an awesome blog, but then wonder why no one is reading it. Well, how do readers know it exists? Why should they read it? Sure, you can promote you blog online, but getting out and meeting your blogging peers will make them remember you. And depending on your niche, they… Continue Reading
When You Feel Like a Mom Blogging Stepchild
It is going to happen to most of us at some point… you hear about an amazing opp opening up applications. You apply. You cross your fingers. You get rejected. You watch your friends that were accepted talking about what a great time they are having doing _____. Usually, this does not bother most of… Continue Reading
Triberr Disables the Auto Tweet
Man, this has just been the year of Social Media changes, and not necessarily for the good. Just a few days after Klout Upset the Blogosphere with new Metrics, Triberr has announced several changes. A lot of the changes are good, some not so good. The main draw of Triberr was that it helped us promote and… Continue Reading
Klout.com Upsets the Blogosphere with New Metrics
What is Klout? The Klout Score measures influence based on your ability to drive action. Every time you create content or engage you influence others. The Klout Score uses data from social networks in order to measure: True Reach: How many people you influence Amplification: How much you influence them Network Impact: The influence of your network… Continue Reading
Facebook Page Admins Check For “Hidden” Posts
Yes, another Facebook post! I noticed a few days ago (maybe longer) that it seemed like when folks tagged my Littletechgirl.com Facebook Fan Page it was not working. Or so I thought. And I knew that a specific page tagged me today, but I did not see it on my wall so I started wondering.… Continue Reading
Will People Really Believe Anything? Facebook is NOT Going to Charge You
I was not online a lot yesterday. I was catching up on some much needed rest. But, when I finally did check out Facebook last night, I saw one after another of the following in my friends statuses. I will let you all remain nameless for your sake. And I noticed that a couple of… Continue Reading
Hands On With The New Facebook Timeline
Yesterday the new Facebook Timeline was released to Facebook developers right after the F8 Keynote. But, there is a way for the rest of us to get it now as well using these simple instructions posted by TechCrunch. If you are using Facebook Comments or any other Facebook Social Plugins on your blog, you technically already have… Continue Reading
Guide to Google+
As more users are signing up for Google+ now that it is open to the public, some may be wondering what on earth Google+ is all about. I heard at least a couple of people say they only heard of it this week. But, now.. when you sign into your Gmail you may be prompted… Continue Reading
More Facebook Changes: Bring on the New Facebook Timeline!
For the longest time I have disliked the “new” Facebook look. New meaning the changes that they made back in March. I wrote 5 Things Facebook Needs to Change Back Right Now, at that time. I absolutely hated the look of the profile page. Since then, we have gotten used to little Facebook pages here… Continue Reading
Join Us for an AMD Tech Moms Back-to-School Twitter Party with Great Prizes
Want to get all your back-to-school questions answered? Join Bob Grim from Advanced Micro Devices, myself and fellow AMD Tech Moms @TechSavvyMama, @ScrappinMichele, & @HomeEverAfter for a Twitter Party this Wednesday night! We will be discussing ways to save money during back-to-school computer shopping and sharing tips to help you choose the right computer to meet your family’s… Continue Reading
I Finally Made a List!!
Some folks out there on that thing called the internet think that you have not made it until you have made a list! Well, I am happy to report that I finally made one! It is a decent list too. Not bad if I do say so myself! Black Enterprise included yours truly on their… Continue Reading
Why and How to Keep Track of your Blog Traffic
It is called the numbers game. It is all some website owners talk about. Some say that numbers are everything. Some say that checking your numbers makes you obsessive and you should not worry about it. Well, if you are blogging for anyone other than just yourself, there is one set of numbers that you… Continue Reading