I was asked to present to the International Virtual Assistants Organization about
HootSuite.  I choose to show them how teams or groups can use HootSuite to bettermonitor not only their online reputation but the online reputation of their clients as well.  I have decided to post it here in case some of you missed it.  If you have questions or need assistance, feel free to contact me and I would be glad to help you.

Last night I was working and decided to take a break and check my email.  As I go through, I saw an email newsletter from a friend and fellow colleague and thought that I could read it real quick.  As I am going through it I am thinking, “hmmm, I wonder how her social media icons look in here”, so I am scrolling and then I think “where are they?”, she must have forgotten to put them in.  So I message her and as we are talking she says this to me “it never occurred to me to put them in there”.  I felt like a ton of bricks hit me…then I got the building thrown on me “you didn’t tell me to put them in there”.  I didn’t? Was I supposed to have?  Should I have to?  I then asked, they are in your email right?”  I was deeply wounded to know that “no, I didn’t know to” was the answer.  OUCH…how are you going to get found if you don’t tell others where to find you? 

Lesson learned for me and her!  Social media is EVERYWHERE…where should you be posting your social media sites? EVERYWHERE!!  Put them in your newsletters, your email signatures, business cards, your resource boxes or author’s boxes in your articles, OTHER social media sites you belong to.  How do you expect to get found if you don’t tell everyone everywhere you go how to find you?

So for those that think I have never told you:  Your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc. should be posted EVERYWHERE if you want to be found there.

On occasion you may want to move people from one list to another.  There is a really simple way of doing this.  Go to on the right top and click on “Account”. You will see a drop down box like the one below.

You then want to click on “Edit Friends”, which should be the first option. You will get a page that when you look on the left side, has “Search Friends”, “All Connections”, etc.  If you look down to the next section it is called “Lists”.  Click on the option called “Friends” (should be the first option), shown below.

This will bring up all your friends and on the right (in the middle of the screen, sort of), you can see where you can click on the words “Add to List” or if you have people into lists already, it will tell you how many lists they are in.  You can either click on the one with the check to remove them from that list and click on a list name to add them to another list.  As you can see in the box on the right, you can also create new lists here, too.

This is just a really quick (not proofed for grammar) tip to show you how to manage your friend lists on Facebook.  If you have other questions or comments, leave a comment below!

I thought today I would do a video to show you how to connect your Blogger Feed into your Hootsuite.  Enjoy!  If you have questions, I would love to help you with them!

As with new features added to the social networking world, comes new add-ins to make it easier to add them.  Over the last couple of weeks, Facebook has been hinting and rolling out new “additions” to not only their site but to make the world of web 2.0 more “social”.  They changed the “Become a Fan” to “People who Like this Page” and they are changing the privacy controls and partnering with other Brands (Microsoft and others) to enhance the Facebook Brand.

If you wanted to add the “Like” button to your site you had to add in some coding which is not difficult and takes about a second to do whether you know how to code or not.  It was a matter of opening up your WP and clicking on “Editor” in your Appearance section and then going to “Single Post”  and finding the spot you want it.  When you find the spot (normally at the top or under your content) you just add in this line of code:

<?php echo ‘<iframe src=”http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=‘,urlencode(get_permalink()),’&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ allowTransparency=”true” style=”border:none; overflow:hidden; width:300px; height:25px”></iframe>’; ?>

Now the plug-ins have come out for the adding the “Like” button to your site.  You can add in the plug-ins but remember with plug-ins come more work, slower download speed of your site (the more plug-ins you have the slower your site loads) and the more issues you are likely to have with your site.  It is best to keep plug-ins to a minimum number.

Here is how you add the button in the coding, Nathan does a really good job at showing you how in his video.

If you want some plug-ins:

http://blog.gunnjerkens.com/2010/04/facebook-like-plugin-for-wordpress/

http://buzzknow.com/2010/04/24/facebook-like-button-simple-wordpress-plugin/

and you can search inside wordpress in your plug-in area for more.