Author Archives: Carrie Keenan

About Carrie Keenan

About The Author: Carrie Keenan is the Social Media Community Manager for Thill Logistics, Inc. out of Neenah, WI. (@CarrieJKeenan. @ThillLogistics) As a professional whose primary responsibility is working in digital media and audience building, Carrie has a lot of insight and information to share about how to professionally represent your organization across the web. Connect with Carrie via: Email | Twitter | Google+ | LinkedIn

Don’t Be a Social Media Zombie

Or a Ghost. Or a Vampire. Zombies! and Ghosts! and Vampires! Oh My! Halloween fever has taken over. But if you think about it, you do see all three of these personality types showing up in social media. Let me … Continue reading

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Social Media and Blogging Lessons From Kevin Smith’s Movies

Don’t worry – despite the title, this post is in fact, safe for work. The movies of writer/director Kevin Smith may not be everyone’s cup of tea. His crass humor and memorable characters are probably looked at by more as … Continue reading

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Quick Tips for a Great E-Commerce Site

When setting up a new shopping cart (or rebuilding a new one) don’t forget about these important items: Be a consumer and think like a customer -Consider the customer’s entire journey through the checkout process, be sure every step is … Continue reading

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Social Swimming – Don’t Think Synchronized Sharing

            If we look at social media like it was the Olympics – what event would best describe your methods of social sharing? The way content gets shared across social media channels should be considered … Continue reading

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Son of a Glitch! – On Social Media Whoopsies

When you start spending time being truly involved in social media, you start to form your ideas and opinions on who you see is doing it “right” and who is doing it “wrong”. Each individual user will have his or … Continue reading

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To Meme or Not to Meme?

At this point we all know the rule of thumb about a business having a presence in social media, A brand needs to show personality. I absolutely agree with that, but I’ve been thinking: Where do you draw a line … Continue reading

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Are You a Believer?

The beginning of July marks the 65th anniversary of the “incident” at Roswell. To this day, when it comes to the Roswell incident, the world can be divided into ‘believers”, “non believers” and “undecided”. I’d like to say that I’m … Continue reading

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The Problem Peacock – a Tale of Poor UX

This tale starts with an offline experience related to an online struggle. A bad user experience. Knowing my love of anything “shiny” (literally & figuratively ) my coblogger Paul presented me with a “cool fun thing”. A foil peacock sticker … Continue reading

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To Stay Productive While Twitter is Down…

An attempt at a humor post *fingers crossed*   There have been a few times since I have been working in social media that there has been a major outage in a social site. For me personally, Facebook outages are … Continue reading

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What’s Outside the Web Cave Window

Happy Camping Month!

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