Archive for the ‘ Digital Life ’ Category
This coming week I’ll be joining a panel of ski industry professionals to discuss social media’s place in resort marketing as part of the ResortXpo Virtual event. The experience of preparing for this has been interesting. On the one hand, I know I’m immersed in the world of social media for work and in my [ READ MORE ]
Recently I have noticed more and more people playing the twitter follow game: a rude, strategy-driven ploy to gain thousands of twitter followers in a matter of days. Here’s the thing: you’re not fooling anyone. If you have thousands of followers and only a couple hundred tweets, you’re either playing the twitter follow game or you’re REALLY [ READ MORE ]
Business events are great and they can be a really great place to network and learn more about other people, find leads, make connections etc. I have one large pet peeve, though… Business card draws. I love them. I mean, I’m enticed by free stuff like anyone else. I always hold out a little hope that I’ll be [ READ MORE ]
Well, here’s how I’ve been spending my time as of late… I wrote in November about a project I was working on regarding youth in the snow industry. Well I’ve just taken my favourite project – the Grouse Park Sessions Blog – and moved it to its own server. In the process, I’ve given it a [ READ MORE ]
I made the switch from WordPress.com to my own self-hosted WordPress site a few months ago now; I also just moved Urban Shore to its own Bluefur server over this past weekend and am about to move Grouse Park Sessions to its new home on the web. In moving both my personal blogs I saw [ READ MORE ]
Twitter is all the rage right now and so I wanted to get this out there before you all jump on the bandwagon and make some mistakes – the same mistakes that I did, well… sort of. Choose your username wisely. Your username on Twitter is your @. Mine is @seeking_balance. It’s not bad, but If I’d [ READ MORE ]
I recently had a very interesting conversation with three awesome women. These three women have one thing in common that absolutely fascinates me: They’re not on Facebook. For that matter, they’re not on Twitter, or LinkedIn, or MySpace either. They have absolutely no desire to get involved with online social networking whatsoever. The image to the right [ READ MORE ]
Guess I’m learning a valuable lesson in blogging: if you don’t write, there is no reason for people to visit. Work has had me super busy lately. It’s the time of year when I’m focused on the biggest sales campaign of the year, plus I’m planning for the next year. Our fiscal year begins June 1st, [ READ MORE ]
I just read a post by Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger that had my skin crawling and made me feel very uncomfortable. Darren put into words that which I have never had the nerve to say in either spoken word or type. He described me as he spoke of the early hours of Sunday morning: “…you [ READ MORE ]
This evening my husband pointed out a shady pay-per-click ad that ended up costing him a little cash. He Googled “Canadian Tire” and this is what the results looked like: Harmless enough right? Well, when he clicked the listing I circled, this is what he got: It redirects you through http://canadiantireoffers.com/out/, presumably to fool Google AdWords to believing [ READ MORE ]