April 2009

Don’t Use a Friend’s Facebook Wall to Send a Private Message

If you want to send a Facebook Friend a private message, go to their profile and click “Send (friend’s name) a Message“.  The message will then be sent to your friend’s Facebook inbox. Note:  Messages that you post on your friend’s Facebook wall are NOT typically private.  They show up in mutual friend’s news feeds [...]

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How To Use Facebook & Social Networking Sites for Business

Here is a question I was just asked on LinkedIn after posting a notice about my upcoming San Diego workshop on How To Use Facebook For Business Promotion: “Hi Kimberly, I was discussing this subject with a friend of mine….  As a mom of two teens, I think of Facebook as more of a social [...]

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San Diego Workshop: How To Use Facebook For Business

Workshop Title: How To Use Facebook For Business Location: Poway, CA Description: Hands-on workshop, bring your laptop and let’s get down to business on Facebook.  See “Facebook Training Schedule” for workshop overview, pricing, location and online registration. Date: April 28, 2009 Start Time: 9:00 am End Time: 11:30 am Workshop presented by Kimberly Yow of [...]

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Facebook Friend Limit: Accounts May Be Deactivated

Facebook limits a personal profile to 5000 friends and they have been known to deactivate your account when you reach that number WITHOUT any prior notification.  If you, or someone you know, is a public figure this could easily happen.  For instance, I just became a FB Friend of John Assaraf’s and noticed he has [...]

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Don’t Post That Photo! It Could Cost You a Future Job…

Over the weekend, I was on Facebook and noticed that one of my online “friends” had posted a lot of photos of a trip she had taken.  In scrolling through my feed, I noticed this gal sporting a suggestive pose and being fondled by another girl.  My first reaction was, “why would she post that [...]

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How To Invite Someone to Connect Online

If you are reading this blog, I’m sure you would like to use sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Biznik and other social networking sites to grow your business.  If you are on these sites, have you ever received an invitation from someone that says, “I’d like to add you to my professional network on _______”?  [...]

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Back In The Blogosphere

I’m happy to say that I am back in the blogsphere! Between income tax preparation, a mini vacation and a very sick laptop…I’ve been going just a bit crazy.  Turns out my laptop (my work computer) became infected with malware last week and it limited me in what I could do.  Thankfully my computer was [...]

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