Local Bloggers Support Charity

December 18, 2009

As you may know, Drake Intelligence Group is a proud supporter of Best Buddies New Mexico. Ashley, Drake’s CEO, serves on their board of advisors. Drake was quite thrilled when oneheadlightink.com decided to do a swag bag raffle to celebrate their blog’s one year birthday. Drake has donated a camcorder to the [...]

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Reputation Management through Google Profiles

November 30, 2009

A while back we talked about managing your reputation by creating profiles on the more popular social media sites to help boost your ranking (SEO) and control what shows up when others search for you. Creating a Google profile is one of the best ways of doing that. Why not go right to [...]

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Twitter Lists

November 11, 2009

How do you use them?
You can’t see the lists in most third party apps like tweetdeck …yet. And there doesn’t appear to be a way to view them in an RSS feed. So what good are they?
Actually, there’s a lot of good with lists, even in this early stage.
One is a personal reason. I [...]

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Email Etiquette

October 21, 2009

Kimberly recently tweeted this out:

This brings up a very important point about e-mail usage. There seems to be a worsening trend as of late that not only involves personal e-mails between family and friends, but business professionals as well.
The first part of this trend is sending out spam, junk, and chain e-mails to your [...]

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Reputation Management

October 13, 2009

Have you Googled or Binged yourself lately? If not, go do it now. My name is not common, but if yours is, add your field or city to the search.
Like what you saw? Hopefully, you control the content that’s showing up in the first 10 slots of the coveted page one of [...]

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TweetMeMe

October 10, 2009

TweetMeMe is a great plug-in for your blog and twitter! It puts a little button on your posts to help remind readers to tweet and share it with their followers on twitter.
You can also view some analytics on their site or from the dashboard of your blog. You can see who tweeted [...]

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Drake’s “Follow Me” Page

October 6, 2009

One of Drake’s basic services is the “Follow Me” Page. Similar to a business card, this online profile showcases all your websites, blogs, social media sites, etc. It also displays your contact information and photo(s).
Think of it as the outline to your businesses. Though there can be many designs, take a [...]

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Twitter Follow Friday

August 14, 2009

140 characters is so limiting when recommending someone to my followers. I am going to spotlight a few each week on a post. There’s no way I can mention everyone in a few weeks. This list is in no particular order. If you aren’t here yet, and you are fantastic, you will be soon.
 
@vassaad

Vicki [...]

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Twitter Follow Friday

August 7, 2009

140 characters is so limiting when recommending someone to my followers. I am going to spotlight a few each week on a post. There’s no way I can mention everyone in a few weeks. This list is in no particular order. If you aren’t here yet, and you are fantastic, you will be soon.
 
@wreichard2

Aside [...]

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What Makes Someone a Social Media Expert?

August 6, 2009

What makes someone a social media expert? This is a common question—just replace “expert” with your word of choice.
Social Media is a new way of marketing a brand, cause, or person. There is nothing new about marketing; social media is just using new tools.
So then, what makes someone an “expert”? The same thing [...]

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