Last year I wrote an article about how to effectively use social media to recruit for Taglit-Birthright, the free 10-day trip to Israel for Jews between 18-26. Today, I hosted a 1-hour training for the University of Texas Hillel and came up with even more ways. Flappy Bird Parody Ad Flappy Bird, the […]
Read More →There is a game that I like to play when I host an online social media training and it involves asking for likes. I encourage attendees to mention that they are at a social media training and they are looking for x amount of likes on their status. Not everyone does it, but the ones that […]
Read More →Goo.gl is a service from Google that let’s you shorten URLs, track them and create QR codes. In this post, I’ll show you how to use the service and give you ideas of what you can use it for. You may be familiar with shortened URLs from their popularity on Twitter and Facebook. I’ll cover […]
Read More →If you watched the Grammy’s on Sunday, you saw a lot of action. One of the biggest headlines was singer/songwriter Pharell’s hat. If his goal was to make a fashion statement, he definitely did that…and more! He wore a top hat that looked similar to what a forest ranger would wear. It also looked similar […]
Read More →Utilizing social media to tell your non-profits’ story is a fantastic way to build community, but are you doing it right? Let me guess, you have many hats within your organization and you wish you had MORE time to manage your non-profit’s social media pages. In this post, I’ll give you 12 tips to help […]
Read More →Follow @Socially_Gold The internet is making it easier for you to edit and share your photos for social networks these days. Below is a list of a few that I have comes across. Pic Stitch The name of this app says it all. You can stitch pictures together making it easy to share multiple photos […]
Read More →Ask Big Questions is an on campus organization that helps college students get to know themselves and their peers through asking life’s Big Questions. A Big Question anyone can answer, which differs from a hard question. A hard question takes prior knowledge and expertise to answer. As my regular readers know, I consult Ask Big […]
Read More →Earlier this year, I attended a training for Ask Big Questions, a non-profit that I work with on their social strategy. At that training, a student I met connected me to Professor Don Stanley from the University Of Wisconsin via Twitter. Don and I spoke on the phone about his class, informally titled Social Media […]
Read More →Facebook lets you exclude certain people from seeing Facebook posts, but you’ll need to create a friends list first. This tutorial will show you how to create friend lists on Facebook so you can do just that. Let’s say you didn’t want it to be public that you despise onions (they don’t like me, if […]
Read More →Determining your social strategy can be difficult, but implementing one successfully can be even more challenging. This posts highlights the Akron Aeros Minor League Baseball Team, their new owner and how they used Facebook to build and engage their fan base. I got a chance to interview their owner via a friend’s introduction. Ken Babby, […]
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