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When It is Not a Social Media Strategy
Read more: When It is Not a Social Media StrategyRecently, on Threads, a man posted his strategy for the rest of 2024. He then proceeded to list the number of times he would be posting on different networks. A woman reposted his post with the comment, “This is not a strategy.” Predictably, she was roasted by a certain kind of internet dweller with taunts…
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When Someone is Mean on Social Media
Read more: When Someone is Mean on Social MediaIf I have the time, I like to do a project for free that will stretch me a little or just centers in on something I’m really passionate about. I have one of those projects right now. It’s more passion than anything, and I can do as much or as little as I please. Well,…
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Entertainment, Community and Social Media
Read more: Entertainment, Community and Social MediaI’ve been reading A LOT lately about how the role of social media has changed. Where it used to be a free place to gather community, that’s apparently not the right approach anymore. The correct approach lies somewhere in the entertainment sphere, according to so many blog posts. Long live entertainment and death to community.…
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The Ingredients for Balancing Owning a Business and a Baby
Read more: The Ingredients for Balancing Owning a Business and a BabyI’ll be the first to tell you that I lucked out with babies. She is flexible and she slept through the night her first week home from the hospital. I don’t know how this happened, but it’s doubly why I’m a one and done person. I can only get the baby from hell after this.…
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What I Am Reading 5/17/24
Read more: What I Am Reading 5/17/24I have a real problem. I get close to not having anything to read and then I look up articles featuring the must-read books. My fingers magically make loads of library requests, and I’m happy, thinking that none of them will come in for awhile. But then they all come in at the same time.…
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Client Boundaries from a Recovering People Pleaser
Read more: Client Boundaries from a Recovering People PleaserClient boundaries are hard. It’s hard to know when you are asking for the right things and then it’s hard to enforce those boundaries when the client tiptoes through the tulips while you’re depending on them for a paycheck. The older I get, the more likely I am to say, “This is not working for…
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On Resilience
Read more: On Resilience“Resilience” is a word I have been meditating on lately. Somehow, against all odds, I have become a resilient person. I never saw that coming. So why am I writing about this on a blog dedicated to issues around social media? Odd choice, right? Not really, if you think about it. If you’ve worked in…
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When More Doesn’t Get You Anywhere on Social Media
Read more: When More Doesn’t Get You Anywhere on Social MediaLonger reels! More characters! When these social media announcements happen, it can be tempting to take them as a challenge. “3 minute reel lengths?! I CAN FILL THREE MINUTES!” But why? Does it really make any sense to go longer in this day and age? The easy answer is no, and it never has. Fans…
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How I Learned to Do More Work By Cleaning My House
Read more: How I Learned to Do More Work By Cleaning My HouseIf you were to ask me what I hate doing more than anything, I’d say, without hesitation, that it’s obviously cleaning my house. Just come on in on a random Tuesday afternoon to take a look at my office to see my random piles and the dust that seems to be accumulating everywhere. I’m a…
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How to Do Social Video with Little to No Work
Read more: How to Do Social Video with Little to No WorkFirst off, I want to make it clear: Great social video takes work. It takes a lot of time and effort. But not many of us have the time to be great. It sounds terrible to say, but it’s just a fact. And unfortunately, video is getting to more feeds than anything else, so it’s…
