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Reader question: LinkedIn strategies

Posted in Freelancing, Marketing, Social networking on February 11, 2011 | 9 Comments »

Recently I’ve received several questions from readers about connecting with people on LinkedIn. Most of the questions are something like this: “I receive connection requests from people I don’t know at all, with no explanation of who they are or how I might know them. Is it rude/unwise to just ignore these?” This brings up [...]

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How to hide or delete a moribund blog

Posted in Productivity, Social networking on March 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »

One of the plus/minus factors in the social media universe is the immortality of material that you post on the web. If you write an ill-advised comment on someone else’s blog, it’s there forever (unless you convince the blogger to remove it). However, the same isn’t true of a blog you write yourself; it’s not [...]

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A few LinkedIn tips

Posted in Social networking, Technology, tagged on February 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »

On Monday evening, Eve Bodeux, Riccardo Schiaffino and I presented a professional development session on “Social Media: Web 2.0 for Translators” for the Colorado Translators Association. I covered LinkedIn and Facebook, Riccardo handled Blogging 101 (you can download Riccardo’s excellent presentation from his website link above) and Eve wrapped things up with Twitter. Given that [...]

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What weather balloons teach us about social networking

Posted in Social networking, Technology on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

If you listened to today’s episode of Science Friday on NPR, you already know this, but it’s still very cool! To mark the Internet’s 40th anniversary, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) held a contest, offering a US $40,000 prize to the first team to correctly submit the physical locations of 10 weather balloons [...]

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Utilizing your local World Trade Center

Posted in Marketing, Social networking on March 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

If you’re interested in expanding your international business contacts, the website of the World Trade Centers Association is an excellent resource. The World Trade Centers Association reports that it has 300 centers in 100 countries; most medium to large cities in the U.S. have a World Trade Center. Here in Colorado, we’re fortunate to have [...]

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Using Facebook friend lists

Posted in Social networking on February 18, 2009 | 9 Comments »

Social networking websites are becoming a crucial arrow in a freelance translator’s quiver of marketing tools, and it’s important to decide how to use these tools wisely. When I entered the social networking world, I decided (somewhat arbitrarily)  to use Facebook for friends and family and LinkedIn for business contacts. Lately, I’ve noticed some changes [...]

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