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    Presenting the Shelby and Jim Show

    Yesterday, Shelby published “Mental preparation to take the stage” and reading the blog post caused me to think about how I view our “She Said, He Said” live speaking events. As I sat and prepared mentally to write this post the following thoughts popped into my head: Unstructured, yet structured Last minute, yet planned out…
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    Mental preparation to take the stage

    This week, Jim and I share our perspectives on preparing for a presentation. This is a timely topic for us since we are speaking at WordCamp Milwaukee in just two weeks. I’m pretty sure our points of view will be pretty different too. Speaking at sweet 16 Truly before the summer of 2011, my only…
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    Fun with video: Curtis Silver Interview

    At the beginning of the year, Shelby and I set out to do more with video. The following video with Curtis Silver was actually filmed in January when we visited the great state of Florida on business trip. Since then, we also shot some short video interviews at the SheStreams conference we spoke at last…
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    WordCamp Milwaukee update: The particulars and the fun

    Jim and I have attended, spoken and even sponsored WordCamps across the United States. (Note: WordCamps occur around the world.) The WordCamp community is a great group of helpful, creative and inventive people who focus their website development on WordPress. At SheHe Media and with our other endeavors, we use WordPress to create and maintain…
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    Welcome to SheHe Media

    The evolution of SheHe Media began with blog posts offering differences in opinion by Shelby Sapusek and Jim Raffel. Within a year, that project has grown from blog posts to a weekly Twitter chat (#shehechat on Thursdays at 8 p.m. CST) and speaking presentations, in which Shelby and Jim offer up their advice and experiences…
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    Social Media Engagement Strategies to Grow Your Business

    SheHe Media specializes in executive level social media engagement strategies to grow your business. We provide strategy consultation services and build out websites, blogs, social networks and more to support those strategies we agree upon. We also provide training services.

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    She Said, He Said LIVE

    Jim Raffel and Shelby Sapusek debate social media etiquette topics including blogging, networks and new technology and how they pertain to personal and business use. They share their experiences and opinions in weekly blog posts, a Twitter chat (#shehechat) every Thursday at 8 p.m. CST and now in live presentations. Their disagreements are sometimes minor…
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Apr
25

WordCamp Milwaukee update: The particulars and the fun

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Jim and I have attended, spoken and even sponsored WordCamps across the United States. (Note: WordCamps occur around the world.) The WordCamp community is a great group of helpful, creative and inventive people who focus their website development on WordPress. At SheHe Media and with our other endeavors, we use WordPress to create and maintain…
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Apr
19

Pinterest is Instagram on Steroids

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I’m still trying to get over the fact that Shelby admitted to being wrong about Pinterest yesterday. She was so wrong in fact that she not only opened a new account for herself, but also one for my company ColorMetrix. You can read about that yourself, however, because now it’s my turn to share the…
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Apr
18

Why I came back to Pinterest

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I hated Pinterest. I mean, hate with a capital H. When Pinterest first made its appearance on the social media scene, I wanted to like it. I loved the idea of the general sharing of images. My mind wandered to that old phrase that “a picture was worth a thousand words.” The scandal Then, the…
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Apr
12

Find your raving fans in the haystack

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Yesterday Shelby gave three cheers to our raving fans. She addressed her recognition over the last year of who her (and our) raving fans are. As you’re growing a new business, recognizing your raving fans as they come along is important. These are the folks who can propel you to the next level and send…
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Apr
11

Cheers to our raving fans

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When Jim and I presented our social media strategies for growing business at She Streams in Ft. Lauderdale a couple of weeks ago, we ended our discussion with a topic we had never addressed before. We called it the secret to our success; even though it wasn’t exactly a new concept. I think it just…
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Apr
05

A He’s Takeaways From She Streams

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Let’s get this out of the way right away: It was weird being one of maybe a dozen men at a conference of 200 women bloggers (mostly of the mom variety). I’ll get back to that weirdness in a moment; but first I want to make sure you didn’t miss Shelby’s takeaways yesterday. She even…
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Apr
04

My takeaways from She Streams made it all worthwhile

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While presenting “She Said, He Said” at She Streams in Ft. Lauderdale last weekend was a great opportunity, the knowledge I acquired and the connections I made as an attendee at the conference were invaluable as well. I know that not everyone can attend every conference and, when I find myself at one that really…
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