Hi there! It's me! On Instagram! I've been getting lots and lots of questions about Instagram lately, and no wonder, because it's got at least 100 million users, and even amongst my circle of friends it's used by a few people who otherwise don't have much involvement with social media. So there must …
Social Media
Being polite and formal enough in the social media age
Of the many varied jobs I've done in my life, quite a few of them have allowed me to exercise my "stickler-for-correct-grammar" gene. I've proofread academic journals, and I've taught English as a second language. I have emailed committee chair people to complain about a document that uses "it's" …
Using social media on your travels
I spent yesterday evening at the Scarborough Library here in Perth chatting with a bunch of travel-mad locals about how best to use social media on your travels. As usual at these kind of library talks, I get to meet a variety of people with varying levels of expertise in social media but this group …
The “dip in” theory of social media
After asking me "how can I unfriend someone on Facebook and will they know?", the second-most common question I hear from clients and course participants is "How do you have time to keep up with social media?"I have a few answers, starting mostly with tapping my smartphone and suggesting they might …
Social media is evolving. Fast!
Every month or two on a Saturday morning I get to take a lovely drive along the river to get to the Futuresphere at Christchurch Grammar School here in Perth - it's the venue for all my computer lab-based courses for UWA Extension. Without fail I pass by large bunches of cyclists enjoying the …
Facebook scheduling: For my clients whose eyes glaze over when I explain Hootsuite
I work with all kinds of different clients, but increasingly, a whole swag of them have a Facebook business page, and complain that they don't have time to update it as regularly as I'm advising them too. In the past, I've advised them to use scheduling sites like Hootsuite, but in most cases, I …