Social Media
Social Media Management with Airtable
I use a low-cost Airtable-and-Zapier system to manage social media. Here’s how.
Social Media
Effective Employee Social Media Policies: Slides & Sources
This presentation was given at PRSA Connect 2019, the Employee Communications / Internal Communications conference in Phoenix, AZ.
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Slides: Digital Dirt
In late March, I gave a presentation for the Mid-Columbia SCORE on how to use social and digital media to grow small business. Additional sources mentioned include the Pew Research Center research on social media. For additional information, check out:Social Media Resources PageTwitter is a Cocktail PartyWhat to Post? Owning Read more…
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Slides & Sources: Empowering Your Communication with Questions
On the request of a few attendees, this is the spot you can download the slides from my Tri-Cities Women in Business 2019 conference presentation.
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Online Reputation + Social Media Statistics Megathread
As I’m building out and working on a number of presentations that I’ll be giving over the next few months, I’ve run across something I kinda-sorta knew, but didn’t like remembering. People like quoting statistics. And as often as not, those statistics aren’t backed up by research, or even a Read more…
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‘But what should I post?’ : Owning your awesome
Driving home from what, to me, was a usual Friday evening of live broadcasting $5,000 being handed out to local nonprofits, listening to NPR. The story of Owura Kwadwo Hottish came on, discussing the worldwide attention he is receiving for teaching technology in his rural Ghana classroom by drawing a Read more…
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Ad Expectations : How Vero likely won’t fulfill their promise
What, exactly, is an ad anyway? For anyone who spends a not-insignificant amount of their time online, the explosion of Vero in the last few weeks is impossible to ignore. It may be FOMO at work, it may be that (finally!) having a network that promises to stick to chronological Read more…
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Social Monitoring With Slack
Either because I’m a bit picky, or really obsessed with my job… I home-brewed a social media monitoring and management system in Slack. Here’s how…
Essays
TEDx | Love the Questions Themselves
In September of this year, I was offered the incredible opportunity to share my thoughts on the TEDx Coeur d’Alene stage. I was so excited to share my thoughts about how important the questions we ask are in shaping the world we live in. In the talk, I cover: How Read more…
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The psychological alchemy of questions
There’s an alchemy in questions. Somehow that combination of words, tone, and curiosity blend to create conversation, emotional response, and social connection.Asking a question creates a shared framework for communication, and opens us up to possibility. It’s part of why I believe asking questions is one of the most respectful Read more…