Tag: google reader
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Saving My Sanity by Scheduling Content
Balancing the work of your business with the work of marketing your business with blogging and social media can be hard to balance, unless you schedule your content ahead. I still don’t get this balance perfect and go in bursts of blogging or tweeting. However, I do implement a variety of tools that help me…
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How to replace Google Reader for Content Curation
Last month Google Reader announced it’d be closing it’s doors on July 1 as content curators realized their worst fears. I have looked at a few options that would replicate the features I loved most about Google Reader and used on my networks. Here’s how I configured my content curation sources: Feedly & Zite for…
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It’s a Long Time to Become an Overnight Success
What does an overnight success look like to you? How is it that someone can be rather unknown to many people, and then suddenly part of what everyone is sharing? Last week my Google Plus follower count rose to nearly tie what it’s taken me 4 years to accomplish in Twitter, just a mere 3…
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Three Words Revisited
At the beginning of the year, I joined in the blogging meme, 3 words. It’s time to check in on how I’m doing on that. To recap, three words I wanted to summarize me in 2011 are: Create Consistent Results
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Tumblr is still down, is self-hosting more reliable?
Yesterday I began preparing to record a GFYD Member Tip of the Week, a training service we offer to train small business owners in social media. This week’s tip was to be an hour long jam-packed lesson on maximizing Tumblr for social networking and search engine optimization. However, this is what I found, not just…
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Google changes Gmail Contacts
Tired of the old Google Contacts? It was pretty frustrating and a bit awkward to even locate. The Gmail team has been rolling out changes for where to find these contacts, making them also more useful in the process. Now the contacts area acts much as the rest of Gmail. You can easily add new…