Category Archives: Carrie’s Blog

Don’t Be a Social Media Zombie

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Carrie Keenan

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

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Carrie Keenan

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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Social Swimming – Don’t Think Synchronized Sharing

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Carrie Keenan

            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

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Carrie Keenan

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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Are You a Believer?

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Carrie Keenan

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

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Carrie Keenan

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…

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Carrie Keenan

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 I learned about Social Media From Star Wars

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Carrie Keenan

With the recent celebration of  Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you all) Paul and I decided it was time for another post pairing. (Funny how we choose to do that with the science fiction themes…) While Paul … Continue reading →

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What is in Your Social Media Toolbox?

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Carrie Keenan

Lately, I have been noticing many posts where people are recommending various social media tools and platforms. This got me to wondering… what tools do the people in my social media community actually use? I posed the question to Facebook … Continue reading →

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Social Media Lessons From My Irish Roots

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Carrie Keenan

The Irish have a long tradition with words. Writers and poets like Joyce, Wilde & Yeats all come from the Emerald Isle. Long said to hold “The Gift of the Gab” , the people of Ireland are known to have … Continue reading →

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