Be willing to risk the wrath of the people you are trying to teach in order to reach them and many more people. You don't always need to conform to everyone elses ideas but you do need to be kind, humble and even affectionate for other people. Allow even the most socially ackward people to be a conduate for the messages you need to learn in order to grow as a person and a leader. Gold and rubies may be pretty and eye catching, but those styles do not get people to like you or follow you. Kindness and hospitality will.
What are you passionate? How are you growing and changing? Who do you want to be in 2010?
As always you are more then welcome to use any of my content, repost it, rewrite it, and broadcast it all I ask is that you link back to where you found it (http://interactivemedias.blogspot.com)
I would also love to hear YOUR comments, questions or concerns of my posts and reviews! What do you think, its ok if our opinions don't match up! Leave a comment or let me know what you would like to learn more about and maybe it will become my next blog post or video blog.
Also don't forget to subscribe to my video tutorials (on youtube or itunes) as well as subscribe to my blog posts on here so you can have the latest web tips, tricks and book reviews delivered directly to your inbox!
Thanks for reading!
--Desarae A. Veit
Agency Couture
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Be the change you want to see
Do you want to be a leader?
First be a good follower. Know what it's like to put the shoe on the other foot. A great boss understands what is possible, impossible and how quickly he or she can expand the proverbial box. This person probably also understands his employees unique talents and capabilities as a people watcher and as someone who put themselves in his/her employees shoes.
If you want your employees, parent, students or disciples to be good followers then lead by example. Monkey see monkey do. Be who you want them to be. A soldier doesn't need you to be their best friend, they need you to be their captain. That's why the military doesn't allow rank fraternization. Truth changes lives. Live your life with integrity and be the change you want to see, not neccessarily in the world but think smaller to start, start with YOUR community. Your community isn't neccessarily your state it is yourself, your, family, your friends, the people you talk to daily or monthly.
You have your own unique gifts. You don't need to be like everyone else and they don't need to be just like you. Why? Because if we all where public speakers, who would listen? If we all where engineers, who would do sales?
So when you are being the change you wish existed, be patient. We are all on different bell curves. The person who is not quick to catch on to social media may know everything about aviation, brain surgery or
sales. I bet they could teach you a thing or two. So be passionate, but humble. Be willing to take on the most inconvenient or unlikable job. Put others first. I bet your followers will respect you more for it. I'm not saying I'm the best boss, leader or follower but this is food for thought. Thoughts that inspire me and remind me daily of the person I hope to be for the sake of those around me.
What changes do you wish to see in society, your community, your social network, or industry? How do you feel about this post?
Sent from my iPhone
First be a good follower. Know what it's like to put the shoe on the other foot. A great boss understands what is possible, impossible and how quickly he or she can expand the proverbial box. This person probably also understands his employees unique talents and capabilities as a people watcher and as someone who put themselves in his/her employees shoes.
If you want your employees, parent, students or disciples to be good followers then lead by example. Monkey see monkey do. Be who you want them to be. A soldier doesn't need you to be their best friend, they need you to be their captain. That's why the military doesn't allow rank fraternization. Truth changes lives. Live your life with integrity and be the change you want to see, not neccessarily in the world but think smaller to start, start with YOUR community. Your community isn't neccessarily your state it is yourself, your, family, your friends, the people you talk to daily or monthly.
You have your own unique gifts. You don't need to be like everyone else and they don't need to be just like you. Why? Because if we all where public speakers, who would listen? If we all where engineers, who would do sales?
So when you are being the change you wish existed, be patient. We are all on different bell curves. The person who is not quick to catch on to social media may know everything about aviation, brain surgery or
sales. I bet they could teach you a thing or two. So be passionate, but humble. Be willing to take on the most inconvenient or unlikable job. Put others first. I bet your followers will respect you more for it. I'm not saying I'm the best boss, leader or follower but this is food for thought. Thoughts that inspire me and remind me daily of the person I hope to be for the sake of those around me.
What changes do you wish to see in society, your community, your social network, or industry? How do you feel about this post?
Sent from my iPhone
Saturday, December 26, 2009
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Workout while you Work?!
As a fellow computer geek, or at least a self professed one- I spend countless hours in front of my beloved Mac computer screen. These hours are spent productively blogging and send you all twitter messages. Add in the occasional time spent on Photoshop and you can pretend to be me for a day (for all clients reading this- consider the satire). Regardless of where my time is spent and how horrible my speeeeelling and grammar may be as a blogger- fact is us geeks spend the majority of our waking hours sitting down on our ever growing bums.
I've been trying to work out more, but my desire to eat, tweet, and play with Dreamweaver often out weighs my desire to hit the gym, the drop zone, the slopes, rock climb or even go dancing. I love all of those things. I'm not that lazy (or maybe I am) - bottom line is I spend a lot of time with clients, in meetings, working at coffee shops or sitting on my couch with my laptop and a good movie or podcast playing in the background. The rest of you desk jockeys may do similar things, but if you work on a computer- my point is your sitting.
I'm not sure if this is going to help at all, but I've found some creative ways to workout while you work. If you have other ideas, tips or just hate my posts feel free to comment below! I love hearing from you and feedback is essential to keeping this community going and motivating me to write or make videos for you all.
1. Desk Treadmills:
Do you get tired of sitting in a chair all day? The TreadDesk can change all of that by letting you stand up and walk while you continue working at your desk.
I've been trying to work out more, but my desire to eat, tweet, and play with Dreamweaver often out weighs my desire to hit the gym, the drop zone, the slopes, rock climb or even go dancing. I love all of those things. I'm not that lazy (or maybe I am) - bottom line is I spend a lot of time with clients, in meetings, working at coffee shops or sitting on my couch with my laptop and a good movie or podcast playing in the background. The rest of you desk jockeys may do similar things, but if you work on a computer- my point is your sitting.
I'm not sure if this is going to help at all, but I've found some creative ways to workout while you work. If you have other ideas, tips or just hate my posts feel free to comment below! I love hearing from you and feedback is essential to keeping this community going and motivating me to write or make videos for you all.
1. Desk Treadmills:
Do you get tired of sitting in a chair all day? The TreadDesk can change all of that by letting you stand up and walk while you continue working at your desk.
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Walkstation
2. Yoga Balls
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Stolen Bikes in Uptown
The following is a message from a close friend and colleague. Please help if you can:
Hello Everyone, This email is an attempt to locate our stolen bikes. Our detached garage, in Columbia Heights, MN, was burglarized sometime last night and the lucky thief made off with five bicycles. I've included pictures and descriptions below. The guy came through the alley, wedged the door open with a screwdriver or something (blew out the lock), and proceeded to walk off with all five bikes. My neighbor across the alley actually saw the guy around 5:30 this morning and described him as a "white guy, tall and skinny, with short hair, and a cap." He was rolling down the alley on Jess's bike when he saw him - too bad he had no idea what was going on... Please keep an eye out for these bikes, and pass this along to anyone who might be involved with cycling, or otherwise might be involved with buying and selling used bikes, or maybe someone with too much time on their hands that likes this kind of thing... The first three are rare enough that they should be easy to spot - evidently no one but me and Jess ride Fuji.... If you see any sign of these bikes, please email me at dan_altmann@yahoo.com, or call my cell 763-232-1870. Get 'em!!!
Bike #1: 2007 Fuji Team, carbon frame, 61 cm, as pictured with the exception of: Dura-Ace crank, Black Speedplay Zero pedals, Fizik Arione seat, Thompson Elite seat post, ITM stem, silver bar tape, and grey Continental tires. It also had a Polar CS100 on it at the time it was stolen. Oh, and the clincher, on one side of the fork it read "FUJ" instead of " FUJI ."
Bike #2: 2005 Fuji Team SL, aluminum frame, 56 cm. All stock, as pictured. AT the time it was stolen, there was a Cateye computer on it.
2008 Fuji Tahoe 29 Pro, 21" frame, stock with the exception of a Fizik Arione seat (with an orange center stripe which had been covered up with black marker), and Stan's No-Tubes Crow tires. Also, it had a pretty good scrape on the outside of the big chain ring, and it had a different brake disk in back. It also had a mount and a speed sensor for a Polar computer.
Bike #4: Specialized Crossroads, XL, Maroon/Silver with black fenders
Bike #5: 1994 Bianchi Nyala, 19" frame, purple color, slick tires, luggage rack (no picture available)
Need some Apple Support
Stupid Apple. Yes I said Apple. I can't CALL you when it's my phone that I'm inquiring about being frozen. In my initial chat hello.. I specifically said I'd already tried searching the Apple online self help forums for help. Then Mr. Chat says well.. call our 1800 number... uhm hello? I wouldn't be chatting with you IF my phone worked. So heres the deal twitter: My iPhone 3G is FROZEN. The buttons work because I can see the volume go up and down and until I got a text message I could even hit the power off, but couldn't restart it because its the touch screen that is not responding to me. I'm sad and miss my lovely phone working. Anyone have any thoughts on what to do? It's not that I hate Apple - Quite the opposite actually, but I wish their online chat support was for SUPPORT and not just SALES. Lame Apple, way to not be there for me when I need you.
Love,
Your recent frien-emy, but still loyal fan (once my phone returns to working order)
Any thoughts? Please Twitter me @DesaraeV (oh and don't think I didn't think about going to the genius bar - my closest one is booked today)
Heres what I found to fix your FROZEN iPHONE or iPOD TOUCH:
God Bless YouTube!
Love,
Your recent frien-emy, but still loyal fan (once my phone returns to working order)
Any thoughts? Please Twitter me @DesaraeV (oh and don't think I didn't think about going to the genius bar - my closest one is booked today)
Heres what I found to fix your FROZEN iPHONE or iPOD TOUCH:
God Bless YouTube!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
New Windows Commercials
I think the new windows commercials look like a rip off of both iPhone Apps and a Verizon Commercial. What do you guys think?
As always you are more then welcome to use any of my content, repost it, rewrite it, and broadcast it all I ask is that you link back to where you found it (http://interactivemedias.blogspot.com)
Also don't forget to subscribe to my video tutorials (on youtube or itunes) as well as subscribe to my blog posts on here so you can have the latest web tips, tricks and book reviews delivered directly to your inbox!
Thanks for reading!
--Desarae A. Veit
Agency Couture
As always you are more then welcome to use any of my content, repost it, rewrite it, and broadcast it all I ask is that you link back to where you found it (http://interactivemedias.blogspot.com)
I would also love to hear YOUR comments, questions or concerns of my posts and reviews! What do you think, its ok if our opinions don't match up! Leave a comment or let me know what you would like to learn more about and maybe it will become my next blog post or video blog.
Also don't forget to subscribe to my video tutorials (on youtube or itunes) as well as subscribe to my blog posts on here so you can have the latest web tips, tricks and book reviews delivered directly to your inbox!
Thanks for reading!
--Desarae A. Veit
Agency Couture
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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Monday, October 5, 2009
New rules from the government about posting online
New rules from the government about posting online: The Federal Trade Commission says that if your going to post or endorse a product on your blog or any where online you have to disclose what you're getting in return (money or a free item etc.). If you don't do this it may start with an order to comply and go as far as fines, but CNN thinks they are most likely to go after the advertisers because they are bigger and have more money.
What do you think about this?
Desarae A. Veit
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What do you think about this?
Desarae A. Veit
http://youtube.com/desaraev
Homeless vs. The American Girl Doll Issue: Side note where Homeless can Find Help
The plight of being homeless is nothing to scoff at, but as far as the American Girl Dolls issue goes- they are a company and that doll doesn't cost any more or less then the other dolls they sell. As a side note they have supported HomeAid for years (long before this controversial doll came out). So if they don't want to send all of the proceeds to homeless people, that is the American Girl companies choice and I fully support them in that.
Many Americans are only 1 pay check away from being temporarily homeless or poor. These are hard times where everyone should support each other. On the other hand Americans are notoriously lazy. I've offered homeless people food before (rather then the money they where begging for) and have been turned down on more then one occasion. That is not to say that many American's are genuinely homeless or could have there lives changed by someone helping them off the streets, but how many are there by continued bad choices?
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Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.
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Many Americans are only 1 pay check away from being temporarily homeless or poor. These are hard times where everyone should support each other. On the other hand Americans are notoriously lazy. I've offered homeless people food before (rather then the money they where begging for) and have been turned down on more then one occasion. That is not to say that many American's are genuinely homeless or could have there lives changed by someone helping them off the streets, but how many are there by continued bad choices?
- Free internet: The public library, dido on books.
- Housing: HomeAid is a leading national non-profit provider of housing for today's homeless. The organization builds and renovates multi-unit homes for America's ... www.homeaid.org/
- Gyno/Feminine Checkup and Birth Control: Planned Parenthood
- Homeless Shleter: www.homelessshelterdirectory.org
- Soup Kitchens:
- Homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and rescue mission directory for men, women, and children within United States and Canada. Salvation Army locators!
4homeless.hypermart.net/soup_kitchens.html - Welcome to The Soup Kitchen Restaurants & Catering. Where we've been offering Fresh Soups, ... Let the Soup Kitchen help you with all of your foods needs. ...
www.slcsoup.com/ - The Capuchin Soup Kitchen serves the poor who suffer from the lack of basic human needs: material needs, such as food, clothing, and household necessities; ...
- Get a Job:
- (Article explaining the stigma and problems for homeless looking for a job) http://homelessness.change.org/blog/view/dont_be_homeless_get_a_job
- National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
- indeed.com/homeless
- www.dol.gov/dol/audience/aud-homeless.htm
- Job Interview Tips: http://www.suite101.com/reference/job_interview
- Dress a Homeless women for an interview:
Founded in 1996 it is now in 60 cities and four countries. Over 60,000 women have been dressed by this nonprofit group. Clients are poor women and those in temporary shelters. They get one suit for the job interview and a second suit when they get the job. Homeless shelter and other groups refer women to the program. The DRESS FOR SUCCESS sites in the United States and other countries are listed at this web address:
http://www.dressforsuccess.org/sisters.h...
This year March 17-24th is Clean Your Closet Week. There will be suit drives, events and fundraising parties in the 60 cities where there is a Dress For Success program. They are looking for donations of good, clean interview suits. Donations should be items you'd be proud to wear and not something out of style or showing wear. They accept coordinated, contemorary, interview-appropriate skirt and pant suits with matching blouses. They also welcome gorgeous blazers and jackets and new or nearly-new dress shoes. They have a special need for larger size clothes. All clothing and cash contributions are welcome and are fully tax deductible. Here is the web address to learn how to donate cash. There are also addresses where you can drop off your clothing donations.
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Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Facebook 101 Series: Overview
Facebook
Ranked #4 by Alexa in highest traffic Rating beaten only by Yahoo, Google, and Youtube. So not only is facebook for fun but also a fantastic marketing tool.
REGISTER & JOIN FACEBOOK
Step one
Profile Setup
-Privacy Settings
-Notifications (email, Phone)
-Interests (this edits the ads you receive, and since most friends aren't going to look at this I recommend doing this based off that)
-Unless your set to private everyone can see your profile picture
Passwords, credit card, email, and other admin is under account settings
-The box under profile picture: good for note about who you are, contact info on business pages or just random comments about your life or a joke...
Vanity url
http://facebook.com/username
Deactivate your account
Settings/Deactivate
Confirm
Select a reason
You can later reactivate it using the same email you originally signed up with
you will only lose your groups.. yes facebook keeps your info.. forever
Credit Card
Only needed for gifts and Ads is under settings/manage cc
Join Networks
Settings / Account /Networks
Limited to 60 days so get it right the first time
-Poking
Why?
Will allow someone you are not friends with to see basic information of you
-Status Updates
Much like twitter can be about anything
Wall
-Includes everything going on with you: photos, status updates, notes, links, videos etc.
-Wall-to-wall conversations (remember others can see this if you want it private use facebook email or real email... or pick up the phone)
-Wall to wall so you can see just a thread of two people
-You can NOT mediate wall posts before they are added, but you can get emails and text messages when someone writes on your wall
-Facebook only lets you write on your friends' walls
-Applications can post to your wall unless you go into account settings and change this. So if you play games regularly changing this might be good to prevent annoying your friends.
There is no way to delete your entire wall posts at once.
-what to post: business updates, fun trips, what your doing, useful articals
-News Feed
-Keeps you updated on friends, pictures and more
-You can set up groups to be able to section friends out in chat and in your newsfeed
-Don't spam people's walls. If your account has been hacked, change your password. Spam means going on other peoples walls and being self promoting.
-If you don't want to see one particular person in your news feed you can set it up to have them in a special group or not see them at all, this is better then unfriending your friends. (I'm one of those prolific few that you may want to set this up for if you dont want to see me all the time.. because lets face it.. I'm not going to shut up.)
-Removing stuff from newsfeed (invisible just scroll over the item on your wall and click remove)
-Groups
-Key Groups to join
-Analytics
Great for non-profits and networking events
MAx 300 Groups you can join
-Business Page
-Setup
-Twitter Streaming
-Analytics
including comments, clicks, and page views.
-Add Value, Send relevant messages (if your a restaurant invites to events, if your a marketer send tips but don't abuse this and only do it at max once a week)
-Events (then advertise)
-add to page favorites - (cross marketing your companies)
-Wall sesttings (just you or you and fans)
-Subscribe
-Suggest to friends
-Ranking of notes (like)
-Admin
-market products and add pictures with descriptions
-Post package deals
-share surveys to gain credibility
-post upcoming events and webinars, conferences or programs
-Fan Page
Great for non-profits and networking events
-If you have over 100 members you get a vanity plate
-Admin
Member officers (good for clubs)
-share
Fan box
To use on your blog or website
Facebook fanbox wiki
-Events
For Friends (group events are under groups or pages)
-share
-Marketing
-Marketplace
-Sell Items
-Buy Items
-Find an Apartment
Post Job listings or search for them
-where market place is located
-Ads
-Facebook Ads (ad or promote a page)
-Get Started
-Choose Who you want to target, country, demographics, keywords (facebook will give you recommendations), workplaces, political views, relationship status
-6billion + on facebook over the age of 18 so the more targeted the better
-Step 3 is create your add. Make the title catchy, a statement or something that talks directly to the person is great, proactive words are great, short and to the point, then add a photo that relates to your topic
-Facebook will let peoples friends know when a person visits your ad which will broaden your social graph and is a nice add on to facebook
-Step four you get to choose your ads, type and price (you can go as low as a penny per click or pay per views)
-Then you get to review your ad and place order or change your ad
-Add your credit card and billing information then click place order
-Review all your campaigns
-Checkout your daily stats and click through rates to review how effective they are
-Click on individual ads to get specific information
-Note that once your ad is set up you can not change the targeting or copy, without deleting it and starting over
You may want to connect with Fb influencers facebook.com/influencers
-Search
Search tips, keywords
organizing between pages vs. people
-Connect other networks
-Flickr
-Twitter
-YouTube
-Blog
-(facebook now owns friendfeed) expect to see it integrated over time
Facebook Beacon
-Beacon works by allowing affiliate websites to send stories about actions you take to Facebook.
facebook.com/beacon
Facebook Connect
-Users can use their existing Facebook profiles to login to a site
-As a site owner facebook can tell you how many of the users friends are using your site
-you get to advertise on facebook for free (wall)
-use the facebook wiki to learn more about facebooks anatomy
-download the sample code
-enable the developer application
use instructions from the wiki for set up
then insert your api key and test code on your demo site and connect to facebook
-from a user standpoint you get to auto share information (digg, youtube, etc)
-great for lifestreaming
-Notes
-tag people
-Pictures
-Setup
-Finding Photos again (the bottom left)
-share
Make profile picture
-scroll over current picture or use an albumn go to that page then click make profile picture at the bottom right
Tagging/untagging
-Create a slideshow on facebook with your photos
-Optimize your photos with links to relevant websites, photographers and tag friends
Apps
-Scrabulous
-Farmville
-Poker
-Family Tree
-Ninja or Pirate Games
-Mobile
Subscribe
Notifications
Email
N for more
-Video
Setup
Friends
-Finding Friends
Using email
Using im
Search for friends
-Anyone -use the search facebook icon
-for a classmate or coworker friend finder or people you amy know and use the list of schools and employers youve listed
-add a personal message
-get rid of the verification letters that your human setup mobile settings
Accepting friends
-friend requestions under home in upper right, add friend
-Related friends (people you may know)
-Not the place to add random people you do not know, twitter yes, facebook no.
-"Thank you for the friend request, I look forward to getting to know you. Drop by my page and keep in touch."
-cap is 5000?
-Recommend Friends
Remove a friend
-view all or go to their page via search
-scroll to bottom
-bottom left remove from friends
How to Block Friends
How to set up limited profiles and restrictions
-before traveling check look up people in the area and business contacts to let them know youll be in town
-research prospects before meeting them
-upload your contact list from your email client
-if you lost your phone download a list of phone numbers or start a group to
get the ones you lost
-find guest experts in your field to invite for your blog
Gift
Will be posted on there wall and in a gift box (free and paid gifts are just little charms and random ways for fb to make money)
Lists
-Keep under a hundred people
-Key for privacy settings
-Great for organizing events (one time) otherwise have a group
-Recommended lists:
-People you don't know (if your semi-famous or famous) maybe do a group instead? or people who want to network with you maybe recommend linked in or twitter to
-Real Friends
-Online only friends (maybe block from seeing photos of your kids)
-Coworkers (don't get caught with bad photos or lying about a sick day)
-Family (depends on how cool your family is)
Privacy Settings
Be invisible (unsearchable)
Be Public
Make Limited profiles
news feed and wall privacy
Mark Zuckerberg
Stalkernet
Chat
Lists
Online offline
Does not save archives yet
Asleep
Email
-Don't mass spam or email.. if your going to do that alot set up a group or you can get kicked off
-Notifications
-If you email people you don't like or don't know, even if you block them they will be able to see your profile for 30 days after that, so do this with caution
Celebrities
Fan Pages
Searching
Finding official pages (validity - website google search)
Protect yourself from Facebook Piracy
Don't click on email links
Make your passwords unique
Change your password at least yearly
Facebook Manners
Don't post embarrassing photos of other people (at least without there permission)
Be descrete when posting messages on other peoples wall
Don't breakup with someone online
Don't make fun of people or start hate groups
Don't Spam your friends via email, wall posts or links (this can get you kicked off fb)
Don't Spam add people (this can also get you banned from facebook)
IF you are a company don't set up a profile for a company use business pages (this too can get you kicked off fb.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iROYzrm5SBM
Birthday Reminders
Be a good friend and say happy birthday on someones wall
Promoting your facebook
-use memes, badges, images and links on your site or other social networks
-include a url in your email signature and business card
facebook.com/desaraev
Don't replace your facebook friends with real friends.
Ranked #4 by Alexa in highest traffic Rating beaten only by Yahoo, Google, and Youtube. So not only is facebook for fun but also a fantastic marketing tool.
REGISTER & JOIN FACEBOOK
Step one
Profile Setup
-Privacy Settings
-Notifications (email, Phone)
-Interests (this edits the ads you receive, and since most friends aren't going to look at this I recommend doing this based off that)
-Unless your set to private everyone can see your profile picture
Passwords, credit card, email, and other admin is under account settings
-The box under profile picture: good for note about who you are, contact info on business pages or just random comments about your life or a joke...
Vanity url
http://facebook.com/username
Deactivate your account
Settings/Deactivate
Confirm
Select a reason
You can later reactivate it using the same email you originally signed up with
you will only lose your groups.. yes facebook keeps your info.. forever
Credit Card
Only needed for gifts and Ads is under settings/manage cc
Join Networks
Settings / Account /Networks
Limited to 60 days so get it right the first time
-Poking
Why?
Will allow someone you are not friends with to see basic information of you
-Status Updates
Much like twitter can be about anything
Wall
-Includes everything going on with you: photos, status updates, notes, links, videos etc.
-Wall-to-wall conversations (remember others can see this if you want it private use facebook email or real email... or pick up the phone)
-Wall to wall so you can see just a thread of two people
-You can NOT mediate wall posts before they are added, but you can get emails and text messages when someone writes on your wall
-Facebook only lets you write on your friends' walls
-Applications can post to your wall unless you go into account settings and change this. So if you play games regularly changing this might be good to prevent annoying your friends.
There is no way to delete your entire wall posts at once.
-what to post: business updates, fun trips, what your doing, useful articals
-News Feed
-Keeps you updated on friends, pictures and more
-You can set up groups to be able to section friends out in chat and in your newsfeed
-Don't spam people's walls. If your account has been hacked, change your password. Spam means going on other peoples walls and being self promoting.
-If you don't want to see one particular person in your news feed you can set it up to have them in a special group or not see them at all, this is better then unfriending your friends. (I'm one of those prolific few that you may want to set this up for if you dont want to see me all the time.. because lets face it.. I'm not going to shut up.)
-Removing stuff from newsfeed (invisible just scroll over the item on your wall and click remove)
-Groups
-Key Groups to join
-Analytics
Great for non-profits and networking events
MAx 300 Groups you can join
-Business Page
-Setup
-Twitter Streaming
-Analytics
including comments, clicks, and page views.
-Add Value, Send relevant messages (if your a restaurant invites to events, if your a marketer send tips but don't abuse this and only do it at max once a week)
-Events (then advertise)
-add to page favorites - (cross marketing your companies)
-Wall sesttings (just you or you and fans)
-Subscribe
-Suggest to friends
-Ranking of notes (like)
-Admin
-market products and add pictures with descriptions
-Post package deals
-share surveys to gain credibility
-post upcoming events and webinars, conferences or programs
-Fan Page
Great for non-profits and networking events
-If you have over 100 members you get a vanity plate
-Admin
Member officers (good for clubs)
-share
Fan box
To use on your blog or website
Facebook fanbox wiki
-Events
For Friends (group events are under groups or pages)
-share
-Marketing
-Marketplace
-Sell Items
-Buy Items
-Find an Apartment
Post Job listings or search for them
-where market place is located
-Ads
-Facebook Ads (ad or promote a page)
-Get Started
-Choose Who you want to target, country, demographics, keywords (facebook will give you recommendations), workplaces, political views, relationship status
-6billion + on facebook over the age of 18 so the more targeted the better
-Step 3 is create your add. Make the title catchy, a statement or something that talks directly to the person is great, proactive words are great, short and to the point, then add a photo that relates to your topic
-Facebook will let peoples friends know when a person visits your ad which will broaden your social graph and is a nice add on to facebook
-Step four you get to choose your ads, type and price (you can go as low as a penny per click or pay per views)
-Then you get to review your ad and place order or change your ad
-Add your credit card and billing information then click place order
-Review all your campaigns
-Checkout your daily stats and click through rates to review how effective they are
-Click on individual ads to get specific information
-Note that once your ad is set up you can not change the targeting or copy, without deleting it and starting over
You may want to connect with Fb influencers facebook.com/influencers
-Search
Search tips, keywords
organizing between pages vs. people
-Connect other networks
-Flickr
-YouTube
-Blog
-(facebook now owns friendfeed) expect to see it integrated over time
Facebook Beacon
-Beacon works by allowing affiliate websites to send stories about actions you take to Facebook.
facebook.com/beacon
Facebook Connect
-Users can use their existing Facebook profiles to login to a site
-As a site owner facebook can tell you how many of the users friends are using your site
-you get to advertise on facebook for free (wall)
-use the facebook wiki to learn more about facebooks anatomy
-download the sample code
-enable the developer application
use instructions from the wiki for set up
then insert your api key and test code on your demo site and connect to facebook
-from a user standpoint you get to auto share information (digg, youtube, etc)
-great for lifestreaming
-Notes
-tag people
-Pictures
-Setup
-Finding Photos again (the bottom left)
-share
Make profile picture
-scroll over current picture or use an albumn go to that page then click make profile picture at the bottom right
Tagging/untagging
-Create a slideshow on facebook with your photos
-Optimize your photos with links to relevant websites, photographers and tag friends
Apps
-Scrabulous
-Farmville
-Poker
-Family Tree
-Ninja or Pirate Games
-Mobile
Subscribe
Notifications
N for more
-Video
Setup
Friends
-Finding Friends
Using email
Using im
Search for friends
-Anyone -use the search facebook icon
-for a classmate or coworker friend finder or people you amy know and use the list of schools and employers youve listed
-add a personal message
-get rid of the verification letters that your human setup mobile settings
Accepting friends
-friend requestions under home in upper right, add friend
-Related friends (people you may know)
-Not the place to add random people you do not know, twitter yes, facebook no.
-"Thank you for the friend request, I look forward to getting to know you. Drop by my page and keep in touch."
-cap is 5000?
-Recommend Friends
Remove a friend
-view all or go to their page via search
-scroll to bottom
-bottom left remove from friends
How to Block Friends
How to set up limited profiles and restrictions
-before traveling check look up people in the area and business contacts to let them know youll be in town
-research prospects before meeting them
-upload your contact list from your email client
-if you lost your phone download a list of phone numbers or start a group to
get the ones you lost
-find guest experts in your field to invite for your blog
Gift
Will be posted on there wall and in a gift box (free and paid gifts are just little charms and random ways for fb to make money)
Lists
-Keep under a hundred people
-Key for privacy settings
-Great for organizing events (one time) otherwise have a group
-Recommended lists:
-People you don't know (if your semi-famous or famous) maybe do a group instead? or people who want to network with you maybe recommend linked in or twitter to
-Real Friends
-Online only friends (maybe block from seeing photos of your kids)
-Coworkers (don't get caught with bad photos or lying about a sick day)
-Family (depends on how cool your family is)
Privacy Settings
Be invisible (unsearchable)
Be Public
Make Limited profiles
news feed and wall privacy
Mark Zuckerberg
Stalkernet
Chat
Lists
Online offline
Does not save archives yet
Asleep
-Don't mass spam or email.. if your going to do that alot set up a group or you can get kicked off
-Notifications
-If you email people you don't like or don't know, even if you block them they will be able to see your profile for 30 days after that, so do this with caution
Celebrities
Fan Pages
Searching
Finding official pages (validity - website google search)
Protect yourself from Facebook Piracy
Don't click on email links
Make your passwords unique
Change your password at least yearly
Facebook Manners
Don't post embarrassing photos of other people (at least without there permission)
Be descrete when posting messages on other peoples wall
Don't breakup with someone online
Don't make fun of people or start hate groups
Don't Spam your friends via email, wall posts or links (this can get you kicked off fb)
Don't Spam add people (this can also get you banned from facebook)
IF you are a company don't set up a profile for a company use business pages (this too can get you kicked off fb.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iROYzrm5SBM
Birthday Reminders
Be a good friend and say happy birthday on someones wall
Promoting your facebook
-use memes, badges, images and links on your site or other social networks
-include a url in your email signature and business card
facebook.com/desaraev
Don't replace your facebook friends with real friends.
As always you are more then welcome to use any of my content, repost it, rewrite it, and broadcast it all I ask is that you link back to where you found it (http://interactivemedias.blogspot.com)
I would also love to hear YOUR comments, questions or concerns of my posts and reviews! What do you think, its ok if our opinions don't match up! Leave a comment or let me know what you would like to learn more about and maybe it will become my next blog post or video blog.
Also don't forget to subscribe to my video tutorials (on youtube or itunes) as well as subscribe to my blog posts on here so you can have the latest web tips, tricks and book reviews delivered directly to your inbox!
Thanks for reading!
--Desarae A. Veit
Agency Couture
Sunday, September 20, 2009
200 Creative and Customized Twitter Backgrounds for Your Inspiration in Under 10 Minutes
Tools for FREE twitter backgrounds: http://www.designfreebies.org/twitter-backgrounds/10-best-resources-for-free-twitter-backgrounds/
List of Twitter Accounts Featured in This Video:
List of Twitter Accounts Featured in This Video:
http://twitter.com/bobbychandler
http://twitter.com/mmaine2008
http://twitter.com/studio3k
http://twitter.com/Wardere
http://twitter.com/Zenabobena
http://twitter.com/singraham
http://twitter.com/Glo_sweet
http://twitter.com/marimoon
http://twitter.com/taabata
http://twitter.com/sharebrain
http://twitter.com/sannychong
http://twitter.com/dani
http://twitter.com/pipitakitty
http://twitter.com/NetiQ
http://twitter.com/izasieczkowski
http://twitter.com/AbuQuelty
http://twitter.com/rodrigoxrocks
http://twitter.com/amartindesign
http://twitter.com/merylpixelmagic
http://twitter.com/chadmcmillan
http://twitter.com/MikevHoenselaar
http://twitter.com/imjustcreative
http://twitter.com/andysowards
http://twitter.com/betterinpink
http://twitter.com/freshid
http://twitter.com/ohdanb
http://twitter.com/ithinkmedia
http://twitter.com/AgencyCouture
http://twitter.com/BacardiGirls
http://twitter.com/SkyBlueSales
http://twitter.com/NextDoorAgent
http://twitter.com/Desaraev
http://twitter.com/JacksonsCoffee
http://twitter.com/WestSideSkydive
http://twitter.com/DrKulick
http://twitter.com/bccreative
http://twitter.com/MommyMelee
http://twitter.com/Chadengle
http://twitter.com/Manutd_fc
http://twitter.com/mnpr
http://twitter.com/IvyCleaners
http://twitter.com/CoutureCare
http://twitter.com/Knoxlife
http://twitter.com/giftcardgiver
http://twitter.com/flavorpill
http://twitter.com/ABetterLA
http://twitter.com/BetUSFootball
http://twitter.com/GreatBigStuff
http://twitter.com/JeffAndrews
http://twitter.com/Stephenriley
http://twitter.com/WeHeart
http://twitter.com/DeborahWoehr
http://twitter.com/BarackObama
http://twitter.com/WholeFoods
http://twitter.com/BritneySpears
http://twitter.com/Zappos
http://twitter.com/TheOnion
http://twitter.com/Threadless
http://twitter.com/MrTweet
http://twitter.com/Twitter_Tips
http://twitter.com/PerryBelcher
http://twitter.com/RobMcNealy
http://twitter.com/Techxav
http://twitter.com/Sniki
http://twitter.com/Sniki_Beta
http://twitter.com/ShawnRobinson
http://twitter.com/PauloCoelho
http://twitter.com/LadyGaga
http://twitter.com/DiyanaAlcheva
http://twitter.com/LarryWentz
http://twitter.com/DDGriffith
http://twitter.com/ScotMcKay
http://twitter.com/Zaibatsu
http://twitter.com/LiveEarth
http://twitter.com/EverywhereTrip
http://twitter.com/MichaelMillman
http://twitter.com/Ciatko
http://twitter.com/hootsuite
http://twitter.com/williger
http://twitter.com/newsweek
http://twitter.com/mattbacak
http://twitter.com/starbucks
http://twitter.com/kevincottrell
http://twitter.com/ThinkReferrals
http://twitter.com/TheDigitalLife
http://twitter.com/Alicam
http://twitter.com/Kamper
http://twitter.com/OHHDLinfo
http://twitter.com/upicks
http://twitter.com/JayOatway
http://twitter.com/suburbview
http://twitter.com/Ludwikc
http://twitter.com/twittess
http://twitter.com/Jason_Pollock
http://twitter.com/TerryWygal
http://twitter.com/Geraldromine
http://twitter.com/meteorit
http://twitter.com/mmaine2008
http://twitter.com/bongobrian
http://twitter.com/canvascubed
http://twitter.com/aleklisefski
http://twitter.com/Collagesnet
http://twitter.com/cyantist
http://twitter.com/dickieadams
http://twitter.com/distl
http://twitter.com/div_
http://twitter.com/Doubleolee
http://twitter.com/EcoCandles
http://twitter.com/Go_Media
http://twitter.com/gulllek
http://twitter.com/Hicksdesign
http://twitter.com/imjustcreative
http://twitter.com/MhdBadl
http://twitter.com/miscellaneaarts
http://twitter.com/MRHYPERPCS
http://twitter.com/rodsterace
http://twitter.com/robnicadesign
http://twitter.com/scottclark
http://twitter.com/seenickrun
http://twitter.com/spurrachel
http://twitter.com/JStarDaDiva
http://twitter.com/genneh
http://twitter.com/cherluvya
http://twitter.com/cubedesignz
http://twitter.com/tufabrand
http://twitter.com/sezkitten
http://twitter.com/ilymussobros
http://twitter.com/939design
http://twitter.com/benek
http://twitter.com/divvoted
http://twitter.com/pixellent
http://twitter.com/Nabbit
http://twitter.com/waynesutton
http://twitter.com/garyvee
http://twitter.com/problogger
http://twitter.com/keylimecreative
http://twitter.com/frenden
http://twitter.com/daniesq
http://twitter.com/bittbox
http://twitter.com/theleggett
http://twitter.com/gordymac
http://twitter.com/webdesigngirl
http://twitter.com/obox
http://twitter.com/alydesigns
http://twitter.com/chadmcmilan
http://twitter.com/chrisspooner
http://twitter.com/paulgabriel
http://twitter.com/oneeighteenadv
http://twitter.com/efashionguide
http://twitter.com/theantoerien
http://twitter.com/sabaibodytemple
http://twitter.com/mint
http://twitter.com/eh
http://twitter.com/emom
http://twitter.com/chicagomoms
I would also love to hear YOUR comments, questions or concerns of my posts and reviews! What do you think, its ok if our opinions don't match up! Leave a comment or let me know what you would like to learn more about and maybe it will become my next blog post or video blog.
Also don't forget to subscribe to my video tutorials (on youtube or itunes) as well as subscribe to my blog posts on here so you can have the latest web tips, tricks and book reviews delivered directly to your inbox!
Thanks for reading!
--Desarae A. Veit
Agency Couture
Friday, September 18, 2009
Top 20 Posts About Social Media
- Ten Ways To Tweet Yourself Out of A Job
- How to Start Blogging
- What is RSS?
- How to write blog posts
- 86 of the Top Social Media Tools
- Top Twitter Tools
- How to Use Social Media to Promote a Small Business
- How does Social Media Relate to SEO?
- What is Twitter?
- Marketing via Social Networking
- What will the next big FAD be with Social Media?
- Becoming Twitter Famous
- Old Media Meets New Media
- Marketing Big Brands Online
- Agency Budgeting
- Examples of COMPANIES Using Twitter
- How Social Media and SEM Relate
- Connect with Desaraev on Twitter
- Connect with Agency Couture on Twitter
- Social Media's Top 10 Dirty Little Secrets
I would also love to hear YOUR comments, questions or concerns of my posts and reviews! What do you think, its ok if our opinions don't match up! Leave a comment or let me know what you would like to learn more about and maybe it will become my next blog post or video blog.
Also don't forget to subscribe to my video tutorials (on youtube or itunes) as well as subscribe to my blog posts on here so you can have the latest web tips, tricks and book reviews delivered directly to your inbox!Thanks for reading!
--Desarae A. Veit
Agency Couture
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