In today’s digital age, a strong online presence is essential for businesses of all sizes. One powerful tool I have been using that has helped me achieve it and start relevant is running a blog. By regularly publishing high-quality content, you can attract new customers, build brand loyalty, and establish you as a knowledgeable person…
At the end of last year, WordPress announced that it will be offering classes to people who wanted to start blogging, or those who wanted to improve their blogging experience. Yesterday one of the classes I signed up for started, and the first assignment was issued. The assignments or tasks are out each weekday at…
Good chilly morning, As your day two curator, I am honored! This is what I found in your blogs; Lessons. Thoughts. Ideas. Encouragement. Love. Advocacy. Politics. Fiction. Technology. Testimonies. Salvation. Praise. Identity. Business. Lifestyle. I found 52 blogs (Day 1 had 59 blogs) but I am sure I have left some out, so if you…
If you can’t record or remember your lessons, you learnt nothing from the great experiences life has to offer. Everyday there is something new to learn, to fail at and to aim at. For the last year I have been learning, failing and aiming; below are my lessons learnt…. Never forget your passion – not…
Right now as I write this a number of people are wondering how to get involved in the #UgBloggers7days and #SMUg14 blog challenges and where to post their stories. As the introduction blog to #UgBloggers7days said, (paraphrasing) many bloggers are in slumber land and others have never even ventured in these lands, I think some…
Communication is both an expressive, message-sending, and a receptive, message-receiving, process. Failure to communicate effectively can be due to a problem on either or both ends of the process. This is what we all aim for with all our work online. So are you tweeting enough per day that those tweets are impactful, meaningful directed…
What is a social media Policy? A social media policy is your first line of defence to mitigate risk for both employer and employee. It is something to consider that includes guidelines you need to protect yourself as a company/organisation or as a content/social media manger. Most companies add this in their confidentiality agreement to employees to cover…
Have no job yet but you are good with online activities? I have a solution for you, Turn yourself into a walking billboard. With this you invest a great deal of time into your personal brand and abilities. It also means you will need to focus on different ways to turn yourself into an industry expert or thought…
As a social media and content marketing person I have had a fair share of finding bloggers to assign specific projects to. Most times when I have project information that I need to reach people or I need certain content to share mainly in regard to personal views and opinions, finding this kind of content…
I have been to a number of these, some were informal and others were formal. Indirect ones were more of meet ups with tweeps to catch up which ended up being tweetups. Then the direct ones were actually organised by different brands, campaigns, individuals and organisations. What Are TweetUps? These are real life meetings organised…