“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
Tuesday night I engaged in my first real time social media event—well the first event I didn’t cower in the corner, hoping I wouldn’t hit the wrong button or have someone yell at me for being stupid. No, this was different. I am determined to experiment and make mistakes during this 30-day challenge so at …
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I thought I was in love with Mr. Hashtag. But I have moved on. Sorry #. My new very best friend is now TweetDeck. Let me share my story. I have been adding people to follow on Twitter like a crazy woman. I’ve got inspirational preachers who can massage 140 characters like Michelangelo with …
Blogging takes a lot of time and I am pretty sure writing 30 blogs in 30 days was not the best idea I’ve ever had. The question I find myself continually asking is the same one I started with. Can anyone hear me? I routinely post each blog link to Facebook & Twitter, but let’ …
As I begin to try and get twitter organized in this 30-day challenge, I am confronted with a nagging question….what, exactly, is the purpose of Twitter? The question has arisen as I develop a list of people I want to follow. My hashtag success pointed me toward social media experts like Social Media Insider. However, …
Yesterday I shared with you my lovely tweeting successes. In an effort to communicate authentically and to avoid the appearance that this journey toward social media competency is easy, I thought it only right to share some of my recent failures as well. They focus on one challenge: “send”. Failure 1: Instagram. I noticed some …
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Yesterday I tweeted. Thank you. Life is full of little victories and I celebrate mine. What was even better than the excitement of hitting the tweet button was the introduction to my new very best friend. Mr. Hashtag (or # as I like to call him). After days of reading through scrolls of tweets with …
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Today is my Twitter day. I'll be honest...Twitter scares the socks off me. I sent my first twitter message 2 years ago. It was something like "hey, how do you use this thing?" No one answered. That was my last tweet. Oh, I've gone back a few times. One time a figured out how to …
It is day 1. It is cold and quiet here in Minnesota and it is cold and quiet in my social media world. I woke up ready to be the super social media player I know I can be. I posted my first blog. Yeah! My first success! Then I went back and read the …
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Social media has become a thorn in my flesh, a burr in my saddle, an "F" in my report card of life. I study its effects, I teach about it, I write about it, some people think I am an "expert" in it. But I have a dirty little secret. I hate it. What few …
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 02:16PM Last night after I finished speaking with a group of parents, a mom came up and began talking with me about issues related to Myspace. She had a great idea I wanted to share with you. One of my greatest concerns with the way kids use technology like IM …
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Peggy Kendall 