Tag: Advice

  • When is it ok to ignore a comment, tweet, etc?

    There’s a ton of advice out there that you ignore social media (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) at your own peril.  I’m having a difficult time finding best practices on when you may need to use ignoring as an approach — or is it something you should never do? I’d love to know how you feel…

  • Conflicting messages are not our way of thanking you-learning from apologizing

    Last Wednesday, just before Thanksgiving, I took the time to give thanks to my Dimdim customers (Dimdim web conferencing, giving thanks to you.)  I left the office later in the day to enjoy the long weekend. Everything was good and relaxing until Friday, early afternoon, when I got a call from the office.  I had…

  • Tip: At events, find people more shy than you

    A friend of mine will be attending her first social media event this Friday.  She’s joining us at the Social Media Breakfast NH BBQ. I’ve been thinking about the best advice I can give her — she told me that she’s shy at this type of event.  Having attended a number of events, I recommend:…

  • Be real, be brief on Twitter (just ask Sean Bohan)

    I’ve been extremely behind on my blog reading and started to catch up tonight.  One post that caught my attention was from Sean Bohan, My 11 Twitter Guidelines.  There’s plenty of Twitter advice out there, but few who boil it down to the essentials like Sean did.  All 11 recommendations are good, but two really…