What would you do if you knew your teenage son or daughter was sending nude photos of themselves to teens of the opposite sex? What if those photos were posted to Snapchat or Instagram? If you’re like me, you would be absolutely furious and enraged. But this is happening each and every day […]
I get bombarded with questions about social media all the time. In Walmart. The school pick-up line. Church. Social media is what I’m known for. Last month, a good friend of mine in the business did a round-up of the top social media questions she gets asked and posted them on her blog, so […]
About two years ago I wrote a short primer on beginning your Instagram strategy and since then Instagram has taken the world by storm. Today, I present to you and updated version of that post. If you want to read the original, for fun, you can here. Before we get started, let’s look at […]
One mantra I’ve adopted while working in social media is to connect with intent. I have to have a reason to connect with someone because I don’t believe in connecting for the sake of padding my numbers. A few years ago Jennifer Hanford and I did a series of 101 posts on the subject of […]
TRUE STORY: A few months ago I attended a conference (no surprise there). Throughout many of the sessions, many, and I mean MANY social media tools and programs were mentioned. I saw people feverishly jotting down the names, looking up the apps on their iPhones and such. People were all over these programs like they had never heard […]