May
09

Shelby the Social Media Scientist

Social Media Scientist

Over the last two weeks, I’ve been conducting a few social media experiments. In the ones I’ve chosen to share, I played around with Path, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, video and behaviors. Below are some of my findings. Engagement on Pinterest vs. Instagram My main goal with this experiment was to post images to both Pinterest…
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Mar
15

Social media before, during and after face-to-face events

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It’s true Shelby and I have discussed this topic before, but in the past six months we’ve spent a good deal of time at trade shows, conferences and other face-to-face events so we decided to update our advice. Yesterday, Shelby took an approach of explaining what she likes to do social network by social network.…
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Mar
14

How to maximize your social media networks during events

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Back in October, Jim and I tackled a similar topic relating to using Twitter to cover trade shows. In my post, I said that I found Twitter to be the most useful social media tool for covering events and I tended to use it as if I was a journalist covering the event live. While…
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Nov
17

Changes with Google Reader (and other interfaces) – Shelby Says

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This is another in our “She Said, He Said” blog series. Please join us on Twitter tonight at 8 p.m. CST using the hashtag #shehechat. Last week during our Twitter chat, one of our WordCamp Chicago friends, Adam McCrimmon, requested that we focus one of our topics on Google Reader in an upcoming #shehechat. Yesterday,…
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Jul
06

Obsolete social media networks – Shelby Says

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This week, Jim and I came up with a tough topic: What social media network will become obsolete first? Will it be Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Gowalla, Foursquare, etc.? I had to put a lot of thought into this one and decided the answer is complex enough for a blog post; although I’ll be happy to…
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