Social Media

By taylor on Oct 25, 2012 in Blog, Social Media, social media behavior | 0 comments

I don’t write about social media much anymore. I’m happy to leave it to other people, but occasionally I still come across an experiment or idea and this is one of those times. On Facebook and Google + I’ve observed that people that include pictures with their status updates seem to get more responses and interaction than updates which are pure...

By taylor on Apr 12, 2012 in marketing, Social Media, Technology | 0 comments

Recently I had a colleague ask me if we should get rid of the e-newsletter for an organization we part of. I recommended against it because I argued that many people prefer email over other mediums of communication. I’ve also read articles where companies have gotten rid of email and switched over to internal social networks for communication. But in my...

By taylor on Feb 29, 2012 in Blog, Social Media | 0 comments

The other day a client of mine observed that it was increasingly hard to avoid linking personal information with professional information. I think it’s an accurate observation, and while this doesn’t effect business owners so much, it certainly effects anyone who isn’t a business owner. Any career professional knows that there will be inevitable...

By taylor on Feb 9, 2012 in Blog, Social Media, social media behavior | 0 comments

I read an article recently where a young professional opted to cut out social media from his life for 90 days. He did it because he wanted to see what it would be like. It’s an interesting commentary on our culture and I think he makes some great points about how much time social media eats up, as well as how interactions change as a result of using social...

By taylor on Feb 7, 2012 in Blog, Habits, Social Media, social media behavior | 0 comments

One of the distractions I deal with everyday is Facebook. Until recently, I kept Facebook on my browser at all times, until one day I decided to count how many times I checked Facebook. I found out that I checked it about 20 times. I didn’t even do much on there, but I quickly realized it was a distraction that was keeping me from working on my business....

By taylor on Jan 24, 2012 in Blog, Social Media, social media behavior | 0 comments

The other day I did something radical. I decided to turn off all email notifications from Facebook. That probably doesn’t sound very radical, but I realized that every time I received an email from Facebook, I’d end up going onto Facebook and in the process waste a bit of time to answer a comment or check whatever else it was that brought me to Facebook....