December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Michelle Cullison has equipped hundreds of professionals to leverage the power of social media and the web for business. She will engage your audience with examples of new media applied and inspire them to implement social media strategies to solve real business problems.
As a meeting planner, you have many speakers options available. When looking for a social media specialist, finding someone with technical expertise and excellent presentation skills is essential. Michelle provides both! Her programs are fast-paced, content rich and technically strong while her style is warm, relaxed and approachable – a rare combination for technical speakers.
Business Meetings
December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Seminars, Training, Breakout Sessions
December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment
New Faceted Search on LinkedIn
December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Intuitive, precision, dynamic search with less complicated queries-that’s what the new faceted search feature offers! You’ll find the new filters on the left of the people search page in LinkedIn. The filter fields available are unique to your search. Powerful! With faceted search, you may drill down by relationship (Connection Level) , Industry, Company, Group, School and more.
Check out this product feature announcement from LinkedIn onYoutube.
5 Social Media Success Tips
December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
1. Set goals, create a social media plan for your business and stick to it. For example, if you want to reach a fan base of 500 on Facebook, determine to be only about that goal when you login to Facebook during business hours. If you aren’t strategic in your use of Facebook, it can easily become a time waster.
2. In your status updates on all networks, answer this question: What information does my business audience need from me today?
3. Relate to people on the networks as if you are seeing them in person. Ask questions. Reply to comments or messages. Engage in conversation. Then, and only then will you see the value of social media.
4. Develop systems for growing your networks. Example: Invite all the decision makers you are working with into your LinkedIn network. Invite contacts from informal networking events into your Facebook network. Or, determine to invite 10 people from your business association memberships into your personal network each month. Having a system will ensure incremental growth of the right audience over time.
5. Don’t be afraid to experiment with new functionality. Social media tools are still evolving. Everyone is learning. You’ll get the most from these tools when you get comfortable with them. You don’t have to think about how to use the phone and email for business. Eventually, you’ll feel that way about social media. Dive in the deep end and have fun with it.
Is Your Electronic Information Out of Control?
December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Searching your computer for a proposal you wrote three months ago? Or maybe you are looking for an email that you just know you sent to a client in June. If your email and computer files aren’t organized, you could be losing a lot of precious time searching for your electronic information.
Think of electronic files just the same as ordinary paper files in a file cabinet. A computer file system can be set up in the same way as paper files are set up. Create folders and subfolders for the files and be consistent in your naming scheme.
When saving documents be sure to click “Save As” and then navigate your way to the appropriate folder for that document. This will keep the document from going to that mysterious place that computers sometimes send our documents when we don’t specify exactly where we want them saved.
Put thought into naming your files and be descriptive. Take advantage of the 255 character limit on file names. Use descriptive words that will ensure you know what the file contains. Think about the different ways that you might think of the file the same as you would for physical files. If you are saving a budget form, when you are looking for it again, what will you look for?
Think of all of the possibilities and name your file accordingly. Taking this much time to think about it on the front end will also help to trigger your memory when looking for the file later.
If you don’t have time to create folders and move files around, your computer’s search tool can help. Search features in newer versions of Windows are much more efficient than they have been in the past. Tools like Google Desktop can also make finding documents on your computer faster and easier.
