Can Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter Really Get You a Job?
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How LinkedIn should really be used…
Yes, LinkedIn, people often found you boring and too serious, but we have found a way to make you sexy again!
The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic
Source: The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic
Class Of 2011: If Social Media Were a High School {Infographic}
Very funny and very exact, IMHO. What do you think? Flowtown – Social Media Marketing Application
Top 10 Reasons to go to Geek Girl Boot Camp…
Here are the Top 10 Reasons to go to Geek Girl Boot Camp on Saturday, March 19th from 8 am. to 6 p.m. at the Cape Cod Community College in West Barnstable: 10.) Not a Geek? Not a problem. It’s meant for all types of computer users; newbies, the hesitant, the self-taught, hard-core geeks, and people just wanting to empower themselves with all things geeky. Knowledge is Good! 9.) Not a Girl? Not a problem. The demographics of Boot Camp range from our youngest at 10 to our oldest at 84. And guys are totally welcome! 8.) Open schedule. Go….
Let's Get Visible: Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile with Anchor Text
Do you have a LinkedIn profile? Are you still not impressed with it? Chances are you are not maximizing and optimizing it for what it’s worth, especially with specific links and anchor text. Here’s how to improve your profile for optimization. On your profile, you have links for your website(s) and blogs. If the anchor text still says, “My Company” and “My Blog”, you are obviously missing out on some great search data for Google and other search engines. Try this instead. Look at the image to the left where the red circle is (click on the image for a….
Who's Coming to Boot Camp Southeast Mass? Tickets on Sale Now!
POSTPONED – will have new date soon! Who’s coming to Boot Camp Southeast Mass 2010? Registration is now open for Boot Camp on May 22nd at Bristol Community College in Fall River, MA, from 8am-6pm. If you are interested in learning about the following, then Boot Camp is for you! What is it? Geek Girl Boot Camps are technology “unconferences” for women of all ages and knowledge levels where you can go to take classes on everything to do with computers, PC and Mac, the Internet, marketing, consumer electronics, software, social media, Photoshop, blogging, podcasting, digital photography, and more. It….
Meet Geek Girl Catherine Weber
Catherine Weber will be teaching some of the workshops in the Social Media Series including Social Media Primer, The Power of Facebook for your Business, The Power of LinkedIn for your Business, YouTube for Business, and Twitter for Business. See all workshops here 1. How and when did you become a Geek Girl? As a marketing professional, it was crucial to understand technology as a communication tool. From the beginning of my career, I have had to learn how to use the internet to help my clients. We built our first website in 1994 for ourselves and our first client…..
Social Media meets Mortality: How do you handle a deceased person's online presence?
I had been thinking about this for a long time, especially as people pass away that you know intimately or in a business setting. What is the appropriate way to handle a deceased person’s online presence on Social Media? Recently, a few people I know have passed on and yet everyone once in a while, their faces appear when I login in to some of my online accounts as people I should “follow”, “friend” or “Connect” with. Unfortunately, I already know they are no longer alive so I started thing what is the appropriate way to go about wither advising….
Using FriendFeed in your Social Media Strategy
Some people swear by Twitter; that it is the only place for them when using social media to interact with others. Still others will only use Facebook or LinkedIn for interacting and connecting. And quite a few more folks are proponents of their blogs, RSS feeds, Flickr, social bookmarks and many other social networking sites. But how about using a service that aggregates all of these in real-time in one easy-to-use stream that provides a more comprehensive interaction with your followers and community? And provide a lot more content and search capability? This is what FriendFeed does. FriendFeed is what….
Thoughts on New Media for Non-Profits
We at Geek Girl are very proud of volunteering our time last Friday for a worthwhile event. Suffolk University, the renown Boston school, also has a Cape Cod extension where they put on some pretty cool programs for the locals. This particular event was about New Media for Non-Profits and it was infiltrated by about 150 non-profits, not-for-profits and charities all around Cape Cod and the South Shore. Us Geek Girls were the “Help Desk/Resource” for the event and we filled an incredibly important role in that we sat down face to face with many attendees who had questions on….