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Facebook Announces New Changes to Pages; Interact on Facebook “as” Your Page!

By on February 11, 2011 in Facebook, Hot Tips, Nonprofits, Social Media, Things You Can Do NOW, Video Tutorials

I’m SUPER EXCITED about the new features Facebook is rolling out for Pages!!! You now have the flexibility to interact with the other areas of Facebook as a page. Get notifications when fans interact with your page or posts. “Like” other pages and feature them on your page! Make comments as your page on other […]

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9 Keys to Search Engine Optimization: Is YOUR website performing at its best?

By on January 17, 2011 in Hot Tips, Things You Can Do NOW

Here is an overview and plain-English explanation of the nine most important things you can do — right away — to help people find your website. SEO is not brain surgery, but it does take some specific strategies. Read on to learn more about how you (yes, you!) can help your website on its way […]

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Inviting Fans and Friends to a Facebook Event

By on November 24, 2010 in Facebook, Hot Tips, Social Media

Can you invite fans of your page to a Facebook event, even if they aren’t your “Friends?”

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Huge, awesome search engine secret for non-profits

By on October 8, 2010 in Hot Tips, Nonprofits, Social Media, Things You Can Do NOW

I’ve been holding out for a while on posting this. Honestly, I think I kind of felt like if I kept it to myself (or to the people who already knew about it) I could ensure that there was MORE for me. But then I thought, “This is GOOGLE. They have TONS of money. There’s […]

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Great Deal on Polaroid HD USB Digital Camcorder

By on September 15, 2010 in Hot Tips, Things You Can Do NOW, YouTube

If you’re still on the fence about whether you want to start “doing video” with your shelter animals, this may be the deal that tips the scale for you. The Polaroid DVF-720 HD is also great, and TODAY ONLY (September 15, 2010) you can get it for $54.99!

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How to Remove Facebook Games (Farmville, Mafia Wars, etc.) From Your Facebook Feed

By on September 5, 2010 in Facebook, Hot Tips, Social Media, Things You Can Do NOW, Video Tutorials

Your friends may place games on Facebook like Farmville, Cafe World, Mafia Wars, etc. on Facebook, but maybe you’re not interested. If the notifications from these games are cluttering up your Facebook news feed, it’s easy to remove them without “unfriending” the people who play the games! Watch this video to learn how. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgZc1Y_be9Q

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Facebook Strategies

By on March 21, 2010 in Blogging, Facebook, Hot Tips, Nonprofits, Social Media

In preparation for my seminar at the Texas Unites for Animals Lone Star Conference next week, I put together a few strategy ideas for Facebook that I’d like to share. If you have questions; let me know–I am going to go into more details about this at my session on Sunday in Austin! Facebook Strategies […]

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What is Google Adwords?

By on February 1, 2010 in Hot Tips, Nonprofits, Social Media

For official information on Google Adwords, visit the Adwords web site. I’ll explain it here in hopefully more user-friendly terms. A Google Adwords campaign involves a monthly advertising budget, much as a television or radio ad campaign would. Google adwords, in a nutshell, works like this: You create a series of very focused, strategic text-based […]

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10 Things You Can Do Right Now – Part 2

By on January 13, 2010 in Facebook, Hot Tips, Nonprofits, Social Media, Things You Can Do NOW

Put a Donate button on your site It’s free and easy to put a “Donate” button on your site. Make it as easy as possible for people to give you money! You never know what they may see or read on your web site that spurs them to make a donation, and you want that […]

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