Monthly Archives: August 2009

Crime fighting with social media

First it was your momma on Facebook and now grandma is on Twitter? What’s next?
Crime fighting. Yes, authorities and government officials have got on to the fact that there is a wealth of personal information they would love to get their hands on, just offered up into cyberspace by the very individuals on whom [...]

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Can Twitter help your business?

So what’s the deal with Twitter? Every company seems to be jumping into the Twitterverse, but can it really help your business? Absolutely yes! That is, if you use it right.
The first thing to remember is don’t be afraid to establish your Twitter account and just jump in. You can use your name and photo [...]

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How to Write Amazing Copy

I’ve heard it so many times as a reporter and freelance writer that now I find it hard to suppress my gag reflex when I hear someone say, “I can write that myself I’ve done a little writing.” Sometimes the person is smart enough to delegate to someone else who has “done a little writing.” [...]

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Headway Theme, Permalinks and GoDaddy

Yes, I’m still enamored with the Headway Theme and its easibility (Is that a word? Nah, I didn’t think so either) But one day as I was trying to change the permalinks on my pages to reflect my post titles, I checked on my site and—gasp!–my site that was slowly coming along, now looked totally [...]

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Headway Theme, digging it

I think I am really liking the Headway Theme. I know it’s something new and I should be wary but my site redesign was either going to be with Thesis the now popular premium Wordpress theme or Headway. Headway won me over because it promised simplicity. Thesis requires some coding from what I was told [...]

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Five tips for using social media to promote your business

Remember the days when if you wanted a web presence for your company you simply set up a webpage with your contact info and a little bit of info about who you are and voila!? (Remember too, those early days when it was cool to have some goofy intro page that was fully animated, had [...]

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Are you a shameless self-promoter?

You should be. Not in the smarmy put your business cards in kids’ trick-or-treat bags way, but nonetheless at any chance you get. And especially with the media.
I recently wrote a profile of a punk rock band and it must’ve been written pretty well because I had way more comments than usual. One of them [...]

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