BLACK DOG Social Media

Diary of a Wimpy Social Media Kid

Cara — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:39:43 +0000

www.lesliesview.com I’ve been thinking about how I preach authentic social media and being yourself online…so I thought I’d share my journal entries with you. I’m nervous! Here it goes: March 4, 2010 6:00pm Put dinner in the oven. Chicken legs for them. I’m eating a veggie burger though because , well, its a leg. Of a chicken. Just sayin’) 6:05 Logged into Facebook with laptop on island. Move drink over as s[......]

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I Was Named After a DMB Song

Cara — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:45:42 +0000

Crash The Original Black Dog Yes, my company “Black Dog Social Media” was named after a Dave Mathews Band Song. My first love was a black lab , I named him after DMB’s “Crash Into Me.” Crash Into Me – Dave Matthews … Crash was from a great breeder: honest, smart, loyal, fun and strong. All the things that are important in social media. Corny, but true. Black Dogs are also the ones not as readily adopted[......]

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Google Buzz a “Lost” Dharma Experiment?

Cara — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:18:45 +0000

www.lostpedia.com We Google Buzz users, through behavior shifts, are contributing to defining what’s important in the future of social media. Are we GeeBee’s being monitored by the Google “Others” to see how we organize our followers, what content we respond to, and so on? I love this post that I found while buzzin’ around my Gmail. I follow Chris Brogan, who commented on Christopher S Penn’s “Awaken Your[......]

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Who Are Your Twitter Sheep?

Cara — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:02:54 +0000

Do Twitter followers mean anything to you? One way to find out is with this cool mashup site: Key in your Twitter name and it creates a word cloud from your Twitter flock. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at what shows up. See mine here : @caramandart. The words that stood out on mine were ones like “GREAT” “SOCIAL” “SMCVB” & “MARKETING”. Peculiar the word “blues” was right next[......]

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Sun CEO Quits on Twitter

Cara — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:42:33 +0000

How cool would it be to tell your boss you aren’t comin’ back to work on Twitter? That’s what Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems did. So the next day he tweets that he wants to write a book about the experience and asking his followers to tell what they want him to write about. He even has a hashtag to get the buzz going. #jonathanbook There’s a problem. He has over 10,000 followers but is only following (as of to[......]

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Social Media Cure for Unemployment Blues

Cara — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:59 +0000

Last year I lost my job. Ten years at one company and my anniversary gift is unemployment. I immediately knew that all the networking I had done for my job was the key to my next career. Small talk always lead to loyal clients. Monster.com was not the answer. My resume against thousands of others! How would I be recognized? I shouldn’t have been surprised at the loss. Workload was slow and I had plenty of time to volunteer with the animal [......]

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Blogging? Forget What Your English Teacher Taught You!

Cara — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:57:43 +0000

A Blog is not a Newsletter. It is a conversation starter. 1.) Use a catchy title, one that makes someone stop and say “I just gotta read that!” Summarize your point in the title if you can. 2.) Keep it short! 250 Words is best. (400 tops! People are in a hurry and you’re lucky they are reading at all! ) A lot to say? Break it up into a few short posts. More blogs with fewer words posted through the week will do more for a bu[......]

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“Batteries Keep Us Tweeting” #Haiti

Cara — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:18:56 +0000

Comfy in your chair right now? Take a glimpse at whats happening right now on Haiti, through eyes of those tweeting from Haiti. I am in awe of how Twitter can be used for such social good. There are people looking for others. People depicting their surroundings. People crying out asking for us to give to familiar organizations ASAP. So, stop what you are doing (tell your boss I said so) and search the twitterverse to connect, help others connect[......]

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Too Much Twitter Trouble?

Cara — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:36:58 +0000

I’m on Twitter. (shocking, I know) #BiggestLoser is on! Notice that # sign I used? Thats a hashtag. (old school pound sign) I don’t know when they changed it to hashtag.) Suddenly I am updating someone I never knew before. She isn’t at home and is #desperate for #biggestloser updates. And then we’re talking back and forth. Then someone else chimes in. and then another.. now there’s about 7 of us in this conversation[......]

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#FollowFriday Mention is like a Golden Globe Nomination

Cara — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:00:42 +0000

How did you feel when you got your own first Follow Friday mention? Its pretty good feeling, right?

I think that a Twitter Follow Friday mention is like receiving a Golden Globe nomination.

A Follow Friday where you are mentioned with a comment as to WHY you should be followed, is like an Oscar nod.

Receiving more followers from a Follow Friday mention, is like taking home the statue. They like me! They really like me!

But Wait! Hav[......]

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