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How to Know What You Need to Know - All the Time 12/31/2015

If you want to have mastery of all the news, information and updates about yourself, your business, your industry and your areas of specialty, then this may be the most important column you will read all year.  I'm going to show you how to build the ultimate information dashboard that will sit on your desktop or live in your mobile app and will update you in real time whenever anything of interest happens anywhere on the Internet. complete article

How Can I Organize My RSS Feeds So They Are More Manageable? 12/29/2015

You are definitely not alone in feeling the RSS information overload. As wonderful as it is to be able to tap into all the information in the world, there are only so many hours in the day to spend consuming it all. Not to worry: With a little pruning, filtering and prioritizing, we can turn the deluge of data into a nice, manageable stream of content. complete article

4 Key Social Media Marketing Trends To Lead The Game in 2016 12/13/2015

The same laws of attraction have never governed the social media marketing scene for too long. Just as one Tweet changes another, so does user preferences when it comes to consuming online content. New social media rise and fall quickly and this year SnapChat and Periscope already shown a great influence on the marketing landscape. With new players entering the field and old companies rushing to introduce new features and innovations, the rules of social media play hardly ever stay the same. In 2016 we should expect to see new exciting trends and changes in the social scene and here are the top 4. complete article

How to Use RSS 12/11/2015

The Internet is a big place. Really big. With more than a billion existing pages and thousands more being created each day, there is a wealth of great sites offering fantastic content free of charge. But with such a massive torrent of media being produced each and every day, it can often be tough to keep up with all your favorite websites. So, how do we alleviate this problem? Easy. complete article

The 4 Steps of a Social Media Audit 12/09/2015

The 4 well established steps of a social media audit include the following; Step 1: Review your Social Media profiles Where are you present? The first thing to start from is mapping your social media presence. Locate all the social media accounts for your brand and write down the current status and audience size. This is a a great base to evaluate your presence on each platform at a later stage. Here’s an example from a recent social media audit for Twitter Counter. complete article

Social Media Inspired Gifts 12/07/2015

The holidays are right around the corner, but regardless of whether it is Christmas, Valentines Day, someones birthday or any other holiday, you can always surprise that special social media lover in your life -- or yourself -- with any of these awesome gifts. complete article

Add a custom RSS feed to your Android home screen 12/05/2015

Android does not have a built-in RSS widget for your home screen. For that, we have to turn to the Google Play Store. The widget I happen to prefer for this is called RSS Widget. This app is free, does not have any ads, and does a great job of presenting your RSS feeds cleanly. complete article

5 Ways Your Social Media Accounts Hurt Your Career 12/03/2015

Social media is a big part of many peoples lives, and it can be a great tool to help build and maintain relationships, and for general self-expression. LinkedIn has 396 million users, Twitter has 307 million active users and Facebook almost 1.5 billion active users, according to Statista.com. However, social media can easily lend itself to blurring the line between users’ personal and professional lives. And any information — good or bad — posted to social media can be difficult to delete once it’s out there. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to become a more responsible social media user. Read on to find out how social media can hurt your career, and how to avoid social media mistakes. complete article

RSS is Not Dead Look at the Numbers 12/01/2015

RSS has taken some big hits recently. Of course, people have been announcing the death of RSS pretty much since it came into existence, but when Google Reader bit the dust on July 1st, 2013, many were ready to place a wreath at the headstone and walk away. complete article

Facebook Merges RSS and Push Notification 11/29/2015

Facebook has released a new application called Notify that will allow its users to receive push notifications about breaking news, new movie trailers, and more. The move into real-time news is significant because could help Facebook achieve two goals: It could make the company more important to the media, and it could increase the traffic it sends to publishers. Now, whether the app will be successful or just something that clogs up your phones notifications feed is another set of questions all together. complete article

Inconsistent Social Media Policies Problematic 11/27/2015

A recent analysis conducted by a University of Florida educational leadership scholar indicates the lack of concrete policy on the use of social media by teachers and other school employees is increasing the potential for misuse and inappropriate teacher-student relationships online. complete article

How Social Media has created a New Breed of Paparazzi 11/25/2015

Celebrity selfies and fan-snapped shots on the Internet have cut the prices they can charge for their pictures. But those tweets and Instagrams and Facebook posts allow them to track down and trail boldfaced names like never before. complete article

Social Media Quizzes Could Give Hackers Access 11/23/2015

Social media allows you to connect with the world, but many seemingly harmless quizzes and games can really be traps laid by social media hackers. The simple and sometimes silly surveys that pop up on Facebook feeds often ask simple questions that may appear simple enough: What's your favorite color? Where did you grow up? What is your spirit animal? Where did you go to high school? complete article

Using Social Media for Public Good 11/21/2015

A man suspected of a double murder was on the run, and a lot of people turned to the Knox County prosecutors Facebook page to find out about it. Posts about the killings of Sandra Lee Stelk and Jaime Barber — who were found shot to death in a rural Knox County home on Sept. 30 — and about suspect Travis Bonham were each shared hundreds of times and reached more than 100,000 people. This was good news to Prosecutor Chip McConville and his legal assistant and communications manager, Emily Morrison, who have worked since January to find ways to use social media that are helpful to the public. complete article

10 Tactics to Build Quality Social Media Presence – Startup Tips 11/19/2015

Question for you to answer: What is YOUR goal for your business startup? I cannot stress enough the importance of knowing the answer to that question. A defined goal helps your team plan strategic & measurable steps; while, in the process, you also keep resources in check as you strive to reach it. It can be used as a tool to achieve either of these goals: increased email subscribers grow profitability get leads more website traffic to your website improved customers service increased brand awareness …and more! complete article

How to use Social Media to Create Happy Employees 11/17/2015

Did you know companies with happy employees outperform their competition by 20 percent? LinkedIn has carried out research to say that 58 percent of employees are proud of their company and are glad to tell others about it, especially on social media. This is great news, as happier employees means happier customers, because they pass on their energy & passion in everything they do, including customer support. But how can you create happy employees on social media? complete article

There Is Nothing Virtual About Building Relationships on Social Media 11/15/2015

I remember saying that if I could ever figure out how a person could be in two places at once I would retire a billionaire. And then, I figured it out. Because being in two places or more simultaneously is exactly what social media allows us to appear to do. With a nearly endless supply of apps designed to cross-post anything we can enter into a digital device, you would think the impossible had finally been achieved. Certainly a lot of innovative people have ensured a comfortable retirement by making that illusion easy to create. But what is it costing entrepreneurs who fall prey to it? complete article

Great Ideas for Blog Posts 11/13/2015

Blogs have increased in popularity because they provide a steady stream of new and unique content. The only issue presented by this quality of blogs is that it may become difficult for those who run blogs to think of interesting and novel posts. If you have jumped on the blogging bandwagon but suffer writer's block, do not panic: we have created a list of 26 ideas for blog posts. 1. Make it visual. Include a photo or other graphic in a blog post to break up the text, attract your reader's interest, or help illustrate a point. Better yet, talk about the image you have included to further incorporate it into the post. Great Ideas for Blog Posts

4 Steps to Mastering Social Media 11/11/2015

Mention the words social media in a room full of school leaders and you’ll be met with more than a few reservations: It is too new. There are too many risks. I don’t know how to twit or tweet, or whatever. There has got to be another way. complete article

6 Marketing Lessons from Amazon 11/09/2015

Creative still counts When we think of Amazon, we tend to think about deals and shipping. Everyone from your neighbor to your grandparents knows that Amazon probably has the best price on anything you could want to buy, and they know that the companys bread and butter is shipping it to you as quickly as possible. In other words, nearly every consumer out there knows what Amazon is about. complete article

Warren Buffett Teaches Us All How to Use Social Media 11/06/2015

While there are certainly dozens of insightful takeaways that could be gleaned from Buffetts 50-year career as an investor, I think everyone can benefit from learning more about one of his core principles that have guided him through good times and bad. Reputation matters One of my favorite all-time pieces of advice from Buffett is this: It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'will do things differently. In many ways, the sheer simplicity and common-sense nature of that statement belies its profound implications for modern-day life. Throughout his career, Buffett has used his reputation sparingly to turn around a failing business or to gain a tactical advantage. complete article

4 Tools to Display RSS Feed Updates Directly on Your Windows Desktop 11/04/2015

In this article, I am going to cover four of the best tools to deliver RSS feed updates directly to your desktop, either through RSS tickers, or from alert boxes that display feed information right inside and scroll automatically. This way, during your workday, you can just glance over at the streaming updates and if a topic catches your eye, you can click on it and bookmark the article to read later, during your lunch break or after work. complete article

XML Sitemaps Or RSS Feeds, Atom Feeds? Google Says Use Both For Optimal Crawling 11/02/2015

When it comes to telling search engines about the content on a website, webmasters might be wondering if they should submit sitemaps or just setup RSS or Atom feeds. Googles answer? Use both. For optimal crawling, we recommend using both XML sitemaps and RSS or Atom feeds. XML sitemaps will give Google information about all of the pages on your site. RSS feeds will provide all updates on your site, helping Google to keep your content fresher in its index. Note that submitting sitemaps or feeds does not guarantee the indexing of those URLs. complete article

You Can Have your Ad Blockers, I Will stick with RSS 10/30/2015

RSS has never been fashionable — it is always been a news gathering tool for nerds, not norms. But now, more than two years after the untimely demise of Google Reader, RSS almost feels cool — like listening to vinyl or hating things on Twitter. RSS is a stealthy way to obtain news thats fast, friendly, and free from both ads and trackers. Its ubiquity makes me wonder why anyone bothers with browsers and adblockers at all, especially when mobile. complete article

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