16. Feb, 2011 •
Categories: SEO, Small Business, Social Media •
by Gary Cope
I’ve been hearing commercials on the radio for Real Life Dental in Blacksburg, Va. Naturally, my first thought was of the infamous “Is this real life” YouTube video of the kid still loopy from the Novocain. And that connection got me thinking: did the relatively new Real Life Dental office take it’s name from the popular [...]
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27. Jan, 2011 •
Categories: Facebook, Social Media •
by Gary Cope
Quick! How many status updates have you posted to Facebook? How many photos? How many did you post, but don’t remember posting? If you’ve ever been curious just how much information you’ve posted to the world’s largest social media site, or if you’re paranoid that one day Facebook’s servers and backup servers will suffer a [...]
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12. Feb, 2010 •
Categories: Small Business, Social Media •
by Gary Cope
If your Web site crashed, or went down for any significant length of time, are you prepared with a remotely hosted back-up site, or what we call a “dark site?” If you are, congratulations! You can stop reading this post and go about your day. If you do not have a dark site, keep reading… [...]
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30. Jan, 2010 •
Categories: Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media, Twitter, Vimeo, YouTube •
by Gary Cope
I’ve gone dark. I’m off the grid. I’ve become a ghost. Well, sort of. I am speaking, of course, about social media and the ever-increasing privacy concerns that come with posting information about your life online. It started some time ago with Facebook and MySpace. My profiles were at one time public and anyone could [...]
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25. Jan, 2010 •
Categories: Social Media •
by Gary Cope
By Gary Cope We all know one. A person on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn who abuses their status as your social media “friend” by inviting you to join Facebook fan pages every other day, sending out 500 Tweets before lunch, or even worse, sharing links to get-rich-quick schemes. There are a couple of folks that [...]
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23. Jul, 2009 •
Categories: Social Media •
by Gary Cope
Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links businessbullpen: This is good commentary from Marco Arment, the Lead Developer of Tumblr, on some of the reasons why you should think twice before using URL shorteners. Digg has apparently been a URL-shortener recently, but they’ve just angered a lot of people by changing the behavior of their shortened [...]
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26. May, 2009 •
Categories: Social Media, URL Shorteners •
by Gary Cope
By Gary Cope Remember Tiny URL? I do. I remember it like it was yesterday … well, it was about six months ago, but in the world of social media six months feels more like decade. I discovered a new URL-shortening tool called bit.ly. I have seen it before and even used it because it’s [...]
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04. May, 2009 •
Categories: Social Media, Twitter, Uncategorized •
by Gary Cope
By Gary Cope Since joining Twitter in January 2008, I have posted more than 4,100 Tweets, received more than 500 “follow” notification e-mails and currently have 360 followers. At first, I did my best to weed out (i.e. block) the accounts using Twitter for the wrong reasons such as spamming, shameless self promotion or agressively [...]
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08. Jan, 2009 •
Categories: Social Media, TwitPic, Twitter •
by Gary Cope
By Gary Cope In part two of our series on “Connecting your cell phone to your social networking sites” we show you how to post pictures to your Twitter account using a third-party application called TwitPic. Now, with any third party application, you must trust the application before you use it. Why? Because to use [...]
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21. Oct, 2008 •
Categories: Social Media, Twitter •
by Gary Cope
By Gary Cope *This post is about Twitter, a microblogging tool. If you don’t know what Twitter is, click here for an explanation. Twitter is no longer an exclusively techie/dork medium. Real estate agents, TV stations, newspapers, and even Britney Spears are using Twitter. Depending on your social media savyness, it can take anywhere from [...]
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