Twitter is the hottest new social media trend and it seems like everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Small business and marketing experts are on Twitter in droves. In spite of this, there is a small number of people who are taking the time to ask, “does it work?” Yes you can reach a large
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This week’s edition of the Blogging Boomers Carnival is being hosted by Fabulous After 40. Deborah and JoJami give fashion and beauty advice to women who want to look “Fabulous After 40.” Now I confess I’m not much of a fashion plate. Working from home means I’m often happy in jeans, a t-shirt and my
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Recently I was reading a blog post by social media and communications expert Dave Fleet – Getting Started: Social Media Policies For Your Company where he discusses what corporations need to consider when it comes to employees using social media – both at work and at home. It got me thinking. What if you’re a
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By Dennis J. Hocker, Ph.D. Success and achieving goals are two topics that have universal appeal. You would think that something that commands the interest of so many people would be understood and used by nearly everyone. However, what I have discovered is that most people make the same mistakes again and again. They never
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When I first struck out on my own almost four years ago, one of the decisions I struggled with most is how much to spend on books, training, and development. In fact, looking back I can safely say that I made a big mistake in spending too little. My biggest problem was mindset. I say
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One of the great things about blog carnivals is it gives me a chance to be a part of a mini-community in the greater blogosphere. We are a diverse group of bloggers who have never met in person and yet we have come together because we have enough passion about our own little niches that
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First thing every morning I open my email, then my web browser, then Word then TweetDeck. The same order every morning. Yes, it’s a tad anal but I don’t even have to look at the screen to switch between applications. This morning when I opened TweetDeck I found a flurry of retweets (people passing along
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One of the great things about going to an event like Podcamp London is coming away with links to amazing tools that I had never heard of before. The first tool mentioned is one I’ve already been using. For editing out long pauses, sneezes and coughs and any other touch-ups to my audio, I’ve been
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I suspect I’m like a lot of baby boomers who use social media regularly. I’m comfortable with the various tools and platforms, but I still get a kick out of the entire concept. I have built business and personal relationships with a large number of people from all over the world: other parts of Canada,
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A few summers ago my then seven-year old son and his friend participated in a common summer-time rite of passage: the lemonade stand. They decorated their stand, made signs and posted them throughout the neighbourhood, drew chalk arrows on the sidewalk and got started. At the end of the day they had made $14, a
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