I gained some serious “cool mom points” for this past weekend. I took my son and some friends to my mother-in-law’s cottage for an early birthday celebration. We picked the boys up from school Friday and brought them back late Sunday afternoon. The boys had fireworks and presents Friday night, a hike, cake and bonfire […]
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Warning: If you are an experienced Twitter user, this post shouldn’t have much new content for you. Proceed with caution. 😉 There are several ways to retweet someone’s original Tweet. First, if you are logged into your profile on Twitter.com, under the Tweet you want to spread, you can click on the retweet button. That
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One of the ways to be of value to people who follow you on Twitter is to Tweet interesting things: cool apps, new plug-ins, interesting facts, helpful blog posts. However, it takes time to always be finding interesting information. One way to ensure you have a ready supply of interesting material to pass along to
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We’ve had some amazing weather the past week. And my peonies are in full bloom. I love the smell of them, not to mention their bursting blooms in a vase in my living room. They just cheer up the place. While I was picking some the other day my husband decided to take a few
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Twitter is a wonderful way to stay connected with a wide variety of people, even people you don’t know in the real world. I first learned about Michael Jackson’s death via Twitter, all of the latest plugins for WordPress came from Twitter and I can eavesdrop on some interesting conversations. But with so many people
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At a recent dinner party I happened to mention shopping at a local independent retail store. My friend Sean angrily remarked he never shopped there. I was surprised because Sean is very loyal to the local business community. He makes a point of shopping in town, even if going to the city or buying online
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Recently I’ve had a few people ask me how to create an event on Facebook so that their Fan page and not their personal profile is the host. It’s easy to do. Here’s how: First, go to your Fan page while you’re logged into Facebook. Under your Page’s picture (on the left side of your
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A tool for managing Twitter, Facebook & other social media Monitoring your connections, updating your status and just staying on top of your social media presence can become a challenge as your numbers of connections grows, particularly when you have more than a couple of hundred connections. Even for just Twitter, if you want to
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It’s a beautiful Monday morning here in Owen Sound; day three of the first long weekend of the summer. This celebration of Queen Victoria’s birthday gives us blue sky, warm temperatures and the neighbours’ garage sales … where people buy other people’s crap to take home so they need to have a garage sale of
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Once you’re following more than a couple of dozen people online or are using more than two social media sites, it’s worth considering investing the time to learn one of the social media aggregators. This lets you monitor what your connections are saying, track keywords, even make comments or publish content from a single place,
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