Josepha Haden is the Social Media specialist with Haden Interactive. A native of Arkansas, she’s been working and living in Kansas City for the past four years.
“You can’t tell,” she’s quick to point out. “I don’t have an accent!”
This space is where she muses on social things – media and IRL, both.
On the heels of my rant about spam, it occurred to me that I didn’t lay out any specific thoughts on how you can go about making valued comments on the blogs you read. We all have blogs we frequent or forums or newspapers. The really good ones get a lot of comments and, most of them, have a moderation system set up to weed out the spam. I know that I only have something truly good to say about once every couple of weeks, so you can’t rely on being a regular as it were. So you’ve just got to be good. Here are some tips on how...
read moreIf you own a blog that you update more than never, then you have what amounts to a spam magnet. It’s generally innocuous, if entirely weird and unrelated, but that does not make it any less annoying. If you write three times a week about really popular topics, and if you’re remotely popular yourself, you can bag yourself some 80 fake comments each time you post something. Woohoo! I wish I could say there is a magic Spam-Be-Gone System, but there isn’t any one option that is foolproof. All of them will require a little bit of...
read moreI think that the next search engine built should focus on mood. It would ostensibly already know where you were, since everything else already knows where we are. All you would have to do is now how you feel have some idea of that nature of the activity you’d like to participate in. Or maybe not even know the nature of the activity! You’d open up your browser and head to this fabulous mood-based search engine. There is a prompt saying “I’m feeling…” and you would enter your mood. Homesick Adventuresome Party...
read moreWhen the world is in crisis mode, it’s always a little hard to know what to do. As children we were given detailed evacuation plans and meeting places for after the crisis has passed, two, three at a time. What to do in a fire. In a tornado. Hurricanes, earthquakes. We were told what to do in as many cases as possible. We never in a million years thought we would need the information and therefore never bothered to remember it. I don’t know about you, but the entire idea of “crouch on the floor and cover your neck”...
read moreThis Thursday, August 25th the Kansas City WordPress group will have a meeting in order to learn about WordPress Multisite. Multisite is a built in functionality that allows you to create a network of sites. You don’t have to RSVP to come, even! If you need to do some pre-game reading, I offer you these resources: Create A Network Enabling Multisite Multisite Setup Video Hopefully we see you...
read moreI had some lack of digital connection over this past weekend, something that is entirely unlike me. When I returned to the land of the ever-tweeting living, I found in my mailbox three requests. One was for assistance with finding a job, the second was for help locating a not-for-profit group, and the third was for a wedding singer. Each of these three requests came from people I don’t have regular direct contact with, but I was able to point each of them in the right direction. They reached out for help as we all do from time to time...
read moreThe good people over at GentlemanREDUX, are having quite the debate about Social Media. It began with a question about formalizing training for Social Media Management and then quickly turned into a look at relationships. My attention was drawn to this conversation via twitter and I discovered as I was responding that I had far more to say about it than was reasonable for a comment field. Allow me to take a moment and walk you through my trail of rebuttals. Relationship Between Marketing and Social Media The first thing to come under fire was...
read more“Social media,” she said, “is taking over our world.” She was sitting in front of me, stirring her coffee and making angrier and angrier faces with her eyebrows. You simply don’t understand the power of our facial features until you see someone expressing such varying levels of disdain using only eyebrows. “No one can do anything anymore without input. You can’t listen to music, purchase clothing, or select a vacation destination without seeing someone’s recommendations for you. Some places it...
read moreI have seen a number of posts lately that promise a How To of writing better tweets. Really good tweeting is as hard to come by as really good writing. Before you run off and try to find all these articles, allow me to distill it for you. Think. Use proper grammar. Be honest. Make it concise. Think. Seriously. Something I have yet to see in any of these articles is this: People will naturally assign negative attributes to statements which are decidedly neutral (perhaps an entire post unto itself). Be aware of perception v. intent. That being...
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