Aug 24, 2010 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Minimize Social Media Time Drain

Feel like you don’t have enough time to get all your online activities accomplished? Well, if it makes you feel any better, you are not alone! I struggle to get two posts a week in place here @ The IStudio. My other sites now have one post a week schedules. Like you, I simply cannot find any more time. And this includes working on my laptop in my great room every night until 10p. Makes me feel... read more

Jul 20, 2010 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Start a New Business

Inquiries flow in daily from folks who, due to the ease of use of WordPress, want to start a new site using WordPress as a way to earn extra income. I get it. Times are tough. But regardless of what platform your site is on, if you seek additional income, you have to approach your endeavor as a serious business first. This is where, unfortunately in my experience, many fall short. While WordPress can... read more

Jun 3, 2010 Posted by Judith

Social Media Marketing Magazine?

Social Media Marketing is now at the core of online success. Experts and self-proclaimed gurus abound all with their own unique take (and products they want you to use and purchase) as to what one should do or not do to take advantage of this new sphere of influence. What works for one company or Web site may not work for another. Each and every site, site owner and stated goals are unique. That is... read more

May 14, 2010 Posted by Judith

Social Media, Privacy & Voyeurism

Social media has perplexed me and many others from the start. Everyone is still trying to figure it out, where it is going and how to use it effectively both from a personal and business perspective. Being a very private person, from the start over 15 years ago I have always micromanaged what I put “out there” knowing that what “happens online — stays online.” Yes, there is... read more

May 4, 2010 Posted by Judith

UPDATE! Has FaceBook Stopped Importing Your Feed?

UPDATE: While e-mails to FaceBook about this situation have gone unanswered, I do have a solution for those who have experienced their WordPress feed mysteriously stop importing to your FaceBook Business page. Simply use this plugin: Socialite. My tests show that with the use of this plugin, your feed will get imported without issue. Give it a try! I’ve had this happen several times. My... read more

Apr 1, 2010 Posted by Judith

My Stream Premium WordPress Theme

If ever you could love the blues; it’s with this theme! Or whatever color suits you (6 color schemes in all). What is really nifty about MyStream is this premium WordPress theme actually allows you to easily change the background of your theme to reflect your personality — how cool is that? MyStream is a flexible and extremely customizable personal blog theme with massive social media &... read more

Feb 10, 2010 Posted by Judith

No Guessing Allowed: Online Stat Sites You Need to Use

Who is doing what where, how and when? This is not information you have to guess about — you can know! Each of our sites is different with niches, focuses and markets that are unique to our stated goals. That means it behooves you to know what is going on online so that you can make decisions from an informed point of view instead of guessing. Below are five sites you should utilize on a regular... read more

Nov 24, 2009 Posted by Judith

Tweeting for Business: Dos and Don’ts

The social media train has left the station. Either you were on it or you still have to get a ticket and join the ride. Many of my clients struggle with the whole Twitterverse phenomenon and not knowing how they can use it for their business to create networking and lead opportunities. Part of that struggle is due to not understanding the impact and potential that participating on Twitter can in fact... read more

Nov 11, 2009 Posted by Judith

5 Nifty Free Social Media Icon Sets

Today, I was looking for a neat set of icons to use on one of my sites only to discover that some of the sites I had bookmarked were MIA, 404, gone! So, since I had to start my search again, I thought I would share with you the 5 trick social media bookmarking icons sets I found that you can integrate into your own site: Cheers: Web 2.0 in a Glass! A free set of 12 “social” glasses. Cheers! 25 Free... read more

Nov 10, 2009 Posted by Judith

What Are Twitter Hashtags?

We all know what tags are, right? Those are words used to tag a post or bit of information so one can know what it basically about. Tags also help us to better organize our data. The hash character (#) when combined with a tag, becomes a hashtag. What tags and hashtags allow you to do, especially with all the noise on Twitter, is to search for a particular hashtag thereby allowing you to find the... read more

Sep 10, 2009 Posted by Judith

Facebook “Fan” Page

Alrighty — Uncle! When I turned my main Facebook page all personal, my business “friends” cried foul. They liked having my feed there along with all my other personal little comments and wacky photos (the zombie coder me being a favorite). So I had to rethink having a business “fan” page. I just don’t like how that sounds — having “fans.” I prefer... read more

Sep 3, 2009 Posted by Judith

Social Media Friends: Are they really friends?

In Social Media, clearly the above doesn’t apply to the way the word friend is used to describe business contacts. I see business profiles every day with thousands of “friends” — no way that folks know all those people or would truly call them a true friend. How can you possibly successfully productively network with thousands of people you don’t know? Last week I defined... read more