There are many ways to keep your blog looking great, user friendly and current. Widgets and Plugins can seem overwhelming though, especially when you are just starting with your blog. Here are 6 tools to add to your blog that will make it easier for you and your reader. There are many more, but let’s [...]
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6 Easy Ways to Make Your Blog work better for you and your readers
Posted by Rebecca on November 8th, 2011
Make Change Happen
Posted by Rebecca on September 23rd, 2011
On this blog I try to not only high light conversations relating to blogging, social media, business and learning, but also giving back to the community. It’s the giving back part that I’ve always been most interested in – ways that through our online worlds we can help make change happen. This is what the [...]
Writing over There: Guest Posting about Social Media Numbers
Posted by Rebecca on September 13th, 2011
Last week I had the honour of guest posting on www.larawellman.com. I decided to write about the stress of social media numbers and measurement (Klout, number of followers etc). I get the value in stats and numbers – I love looking at them and analysing them. I think they are extremely valuable in helping make [...]
Posted in Business, Learning and Education, Social Media 
Tags: influence, Klout, measurement, social media 
No Comments »What Bloggers and PR representatives should do to work together
Posted by Rebecca on September 7th, 2011
Over time my blog has not only become a place where I share parenting stories and information, but it’s also a place where I am able to share product/service information with readers, offer ad space and make a small revenue. In the beginning of my blogging I was over the moon the first time a [...]
Social Capital Conference Ottawa – The Wrap Up
Posted by Rebecca on August 2nd, 2011
It’s been over a week since the first Social Capital Conference took place in Ottawa. I had the privilege of being asked by Lara Wellman to sit on the 2011 planning committee with five other very talented people. After months of hard work the day was finally upon us. And how did it go? I [...]
Posted in Business, Learning and Education, Social Media Tags: Ottawa, Social Capital, social capital conference, social media 1 Comment »Using Twitter #hashtags for learning, organizing and fun
Posted by Rebecca on June 29th, 2011
A #hashtag is a word, saying or grouping of words/letters to identify a specific topic, event or chat on Twitter. It’s identified with the # symbol followed by the word or identifying text. I often use the # symbol in front of random words just to emphasize points, sarcasm or for fun, but hashtags can have real [...]
Ottawa Business Giving Back: Meet- Taste This Deal
Posted by Rebecca on June 21st, 2011
When I stumbled across Taste This Deal online a few weeks ago, I was instantly impressed. This was a deal site focusing on food, restaurants and hospitality but what really caught my eye was that they’ve built community giving into their business model. Each deal purchased helps support a variety of charities right here in [...]
QR Codes – The How and the Why
Posted by Rebecca on June 8th, 2011
After a recent winery trip I was surprised and excited to see QR (Quick Response) codes on the wine bottles! A QR code is essentially a bar code, readable by a special reader, that directs the user to a specific URL. It’s become a new way to communicate in the world of social media, and [...]
Posted in Business, Learning and Education, Social Media Tags: bit.ly, qr, QR codes, social media, websites 9 Comments »More on Facebook – The likes, the dos and the don’ts
Posted by Rebecca on May 20th, 2011
Ah, Facebook. I wrote in my last post about my love/hate relationship with it. I think many of us feel the same at times. A conversation I keep coming back to, over and over, with many people is ‘how do I use it to promote my Page’. You may be the Admin for a blog [...]
My Love/Hate Relationship with Facebook
Posted by Rebecca on May 14th, 2011
The more I use Facebook, the more I like it. And the more I hate it. I can’t seem to find a happy balance. One day, I am readily posting to my personal site and my pages that I admin (currently three) and whether I am using my laptop or iPhone I have no difficulty. [...]
