National Networking Week
- Offer your audience my free eBook, SANE: Social Networking Success in 15 Minutes a Day.
- Invite your audience to enjoy free, online audio training HERE.
- Request a guest blog post for your own blog.
- Interview me for an article.
- Download the media one-sheet and pre-book a radio interview by phone, either live or pre-recorded.
- Tune in to the 1 hour Social Networking training at BlogTalkRadio.
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Have the recent Facebook changes got you longing for the good-ole days? Want to change it back?
Families First on Facebook. A powerful connecting tool, we all use Facebook for family and friends. But the new FB layout now “defaults” your family to the bottom of your friends list. If you, like me, prefer to see your family first on your facebook profile, put them back at the top of your list like this:
Missing some friends? Facebook has a new algorithm for determining whose feeds appear in your News Feed. If you are missing people, try this:
The great news is that our families can still be #1 and our friends are still our friends! FB just hid them all.
By the way, have you read Sane: Social Networking Success in 15 Minutes a Day? It’s a free eBook I wrote. CLICK HERE to request your copy.
Thanks for being my friend! I have loved Facebook for family, and I’ve also loved the ability to connect with thousands of friends worldwide through this social medium. I hope my tips help you “find back” some of your family and friends who’ve been MIA on Facebook.
Marnie
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Social evidence is absolutely required by today’s savvy Internet shoppers. Whether you are promoting a business, a new book or your own speaking availability, you need your web pages and marketing pieces sprinkled generously with glowing reviews, but you don’t have to go begging for quotes and references any more!.
Email is the old standard and it still works like a charm, but social networking sites provide far faster and less painful “collection” options than even email. Here are a few super simple suggestions for starters:
1) At LinkedIn.com, get in the habit of giving compliments (quotables) anytime you can sincerely do so. Imagine your words appearing on someone else’s marketing materials, and make them that good! (Again, of course, only if you truly mean it!) The beauty of doing this at LinkedIn, as opposed to other social networking sites, is that the person you recommended in automatically “prompted” to give you a return quote, if they so desire. Sometimes they do, making it unnecessary for you to even ask.
2) At Facebook.com, send an email request to some friends who have benefited from that specific aspect of your life/work. My son, Mark, is starting a personal fitness coaching business. His well-written email generated several outstanding quotes from former members of teams he has coached.
The beauty of capturing reference letters and quotes from social networking sites is that a) you have permission without asking for it (since anything posted at these sites is free to use, with credit given) and b) you have access to the referrer’s photo, and posting that adds even greater value to the quote.
Hope this helps! Happy reference hunting!
Marnie
During this one hour training segment, you will get inside the stacks (of info) inside the heads of Library Researcher, Lindy Brown and the co-author of The Twitter Book, Sarah Milstein.
Thursday, May 13th
1-2 PA, 2-3 MT, 3-4 CT, 4-5 ET
on Blog Talk Radio
or at (646) 727-2510
Download the training notes here.
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During the 1st half hour, Lindy Brown, Twitter Expert on Wiki presents: 1. How libraries are creatively using Twitter. 2. Ground rules for libraries on Twitter. 3. Recent changes in Twitter. 4. Favorite applications for tweeting librarians. |
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During the 2nd half hour, Sarah Milstein, co-author of The Twitter Book presents: 1. How to set Twitter goals. 2. Why you should start slow and build. 3. How to decide who posts your Tweets. 4. How to engage journalists and PR people. 5. How to manage your SM accounts. |
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I felt so relieved when I watched Mari Smith’s video on the topic of removing Apps & Blingee Books from your Facebook wall. She eloquently shared my exact sentiments on this topic, as well as the “how tos” for anyone else who prefers to reduce their page clutter.
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It is so cool that people send us facebook gifts, and we don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but, the bottom line is that we are responsible for our own facebook walls. Imagine it like the front lawn of your house: You wouldn’t let people just put signs all over that, would you?
Mari’s video does a great job explaining the why and how to keep your facebook page clutter-free. Thanks, Mari! Note: Click Mari’s photo to watch the video now. |
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During this hour-long training, you will learn how to set SM goals, cultivate community and track your results. Thursday, Feb. 25th 1-2 PA, 2-3 MT, 3-4 CT, 4-5 ET on Blog Talk Radio or at (646) 727-2510 Click for today’s call notes. Click for the post-show archive. |
Our guest, Leo Saraceni, is a social networking enthusiast who helps
local brick & mortars use social mediums successfully. He has helped a
local restaurant achieve 4 first-page listings on Google for optimal
keywords, an international non-profit organization take its Facebook
Fan Page from ZERO to 3700+ active fans and a local wellness clinic
integrate a WordPress Blog into Facebook, YouTube & Twitter to
maximize exposure and minimize time investment. His tips will help
you.
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During this hour-long training, you will learn about: Social Media for Ministries with Guest Trainer, Chris Forbes Thursday, January 7th |
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Chris’ e-book, Facebook for Pastors, has been downloaded over 140,000 times and the Facebook group has more than 7,700 members. Learn how to make the most of your profile information, tips for networking with people in Facebook, all about groups, how to brand your ministry, meet prospects, learn more about people and fine tune your communication skills. His new print book “Guerrilla Marketing for Nonprofits” is available for pre-orders on Amazon, it will be in in stores in July. |
Chris Forbes is a certified Guerrilla Marketing coach specializing in nonprofit marketing. He has a varied background of work in nonprofit marketing, including extensive experience in the faith-sector. He has pioneered multiple global and national media initiatives in internet, public relations, radio, and television while working as a ministry communication strategist and marketplace researcher with various organizations and ministries within the Southern Baptist Convention including the International Mission Board, the North American Mission Board, and the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma.
Click HERE to enjoy previous training segments.
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One of the speakers emailed in this question, “I want to develop a website that I can link to my listing at WomenSpeakers.com. Unfortunately I am not good with technology and do not have financial resources to pay someone else to set it up for me. Help!” |
The good news is that people who ARE tech savvy and DO have money are doing the least expensive thing possible: Starting a blog!
Find someone with just a little bit of website know-how to help you register and
forward a website URL. This is very basic; any teen could do it.
Next, follow these steps:
1. Buy the name you want. My blog URL is http://www.marnieswedberg.com. I have mine with, and can highly recommend www.GoDaddy.com.
2. Open a free blog anywhere. I use and can recommend WordPress.com.
3. Forward the name you own to the blog you started. You can see how this works by pasting www.marnieswedberg.com into your browser: Watch how it turns into www.marnieswedberg.wordpress.com as it opens.
This simple tactic will enable you to create a www.yourname.com website for only the cost of the URL (about $10/year).
One of my programmers told me that a blog, like the one you are reading, with all its free bells and whistles, is like having a website worth $10,000 at no cost to you.
By the way: You will be amazed at how fast your site grows from nothing to substantial. If you only added one post per week, you would have 52 unique entries after just one year!
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 My 1,000th FaceBook Friend, Heidi Jo Keranen |
Horrah! Heidi Jo (Peterson) Keranen accepted my friendship request at Facebook! Thanks, Heidi Jo… and thanks to all the rest of you Facebook friends for the honor of your friendship!
Heidi has been one of the wonderful “fun” people in my life ever since I met her upon moving to Warroad, MN in 1986. In my own simple way, I consider her “one of my girls” and we still have the privilege of attending Woodland Bible Church with her parents. |
A few years ago, after the adoption of the twins, Heidi Jo made the trip up to speak at our Mother’s Day tea… not a dry eye in the place — and some serious laughin’ going on!
Country Woman did a wonderful job on the article about Heidi Jo and her beautiful, colorful and cooking family. The story is God-honoring, but her life is far more-so! She is a vivacious woman of God who listens to and lives for the King of Kings.
Go get a copy of Country Woman today (before they sell out!), and whenever you see a pie from now on, join me in lifting up a prayer for Luke, Heidi Jo and their six children: Wesley(8), twins Ana & Tia(7), Jemelia(5), Crosby(4) and Ramsey(2).
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Thank you all for making my birthday so wonderful! Whether you were here with me (my local family and friends), sent a card or package by mail or sent me messages online, I was SPOILED! Being new to Social Networking in 2009, I had no idea that my 1st birthday would be enhanced so dramatically because I’d become a member of online communities.
I feel so loved and encouraged. Thank you for taking time to make my birthday wonderful. |
If you have ever wondered if you should add a simple birthday greeting on someone’s profile, I encourage you to do it! I used to think it was “cheesy” or sort of “lame” — since it only took a few moments. But now, after being the recipient of such lovely well-wishes from friends around the world, friends I’ve known since childhood, and friends who knew me when they were children and are now grown with families — well, all I can say is WOW and “Thank YOU!!”
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