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 …
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Basic but essential Facebook: Checking your privacy settings
Whenever I'm working with a client on their computer, or I have students in a computer lab and we even vaguely mention Facebook, I'm very vigilant on teaching them one thing: how to check their Facebook privacy settings.Depending on when you set up your Facebook account, your privacy settings may or …
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 …