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How To Personalize Your Twitter Background [VIDEO]

Posted by Nan Ross on April 3, 2010 · 3 Comments 

Why should you create a customized twitter background?

Personal Branding

  • Helps your followers understand your brand personality and why should they follow you.
  • Invite your followers to join you on other social media platforms and communities.
  • Personalize your page with photos and company logos.

Quick How-To Tips:

  1. Use a photo/image editing program to create a customized background
  2. Total image size should be 1600px wide by 1200px height
  3. For left-hand column, do not exceed 235px wide
  4. Image should not exceed 800k
  5. Go to Twitter: Settings – Design – Change Background Image

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Post Your Pics to Twitter, Facebook and MySpace Simutaneously with yfrog

Posted by Nan Ross on January 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Now, you can use yfrog to post all your event pictures and videos simultaneously to MySpace, Twitter and Facebook. Who has time to visit each website to post? Just upload a photo from your desktop, url, or webcam, add a message, check the boxes for the services you want to send to and click “Post It”!

If you used TweetDeck religiously, you can choose yfrog as your default picture sharing services. Click on the tool icon on the top right hand corner of TweetDeck. Click on Setting and go to “Select the service you wish to use to upload images to Twitter” and click on drop down menu.

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The Haiti Fundraising Proves The True Value of Socia Media

Posted by Nan Ross on January 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

The devastating earthquake in Haiti was a tragic, but thanks to social media the world has responded in an astonishing way. From messages of condolences on Facebook, earthquake photos on Flickr and Twitter, to videos on YouTube, relatives, friends and news media are heavily relying on social media as a communication tools to get the story out.

Facebook pages and group members have dramatically grown into thousands in just a few days. American Red Cross, Wyclef Jean, and Carel Pedre, a prominent Haitian radio and television host, have utilized Twitter to provided real-time updates on the crisis while encouraging donations for the victims.

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Paid Tweets vs. Organic Word of Mouth

Posted by Nan Ross on September 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Is there a difference between paying someone to tweet about your brand and paying a celebrity to endorse your product?

Marketers are taking this concept and running with it. They are so quick to reach out to consumers and build relationships in the social networking world that they are going back to their old habits: to “spend money to generate impression” and keeping tight control of their message.

We all know that in social media, a positive personal customer experience is the key to an effective word-of-mouth marketing. However, what if they do not have a clue about your brand, and how your product differiate from the rest. Would their feedback be two-faced and fake?

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How To Use Twitpic to Share Photos on Twitter

Posted by Nan Ross on July 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

This video tutorial will show you how to use Twitpic to share photos on Twitter in two easy steps. First way is by uploading photo from your desktop and the second way is by emailing from your cellphone.

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