This week The Moxie Maven is starting a three part series on customization.  This first part is about the why, and it will take you on the journey of discovering if social media is right for your business, and just exactly what information you need to have before making that determination. The Moxie Maven will disclose some important questions that you should be asking yourself about your business and social...

Sit back and relax as The Moxie Maven uncovers the real secret behind making your social media updates stand out – being yourself! I am reminded of a book that my children love, “Sometimes it is not easy being big.”  It is the story of how Big Bird from Sesame Street has problems being too big to do things and Elmo has problems being too small.  We can always be too ’something’...

The legal necessities on any blog is the topic for todays show.  The Moxie Maven will not only give you a list and tie together the proceeding shows on legal requirements of blogging, she will extend the discussion into the realm of social media. Just having a Privacy Policy on your blog is not enough to cover you for all your social media endeavors.  There are a few simple tricks to make sure that you stay...

Talking about privacy, yours, your reader’s.  The Moxie Maven will take you on a journey of why privacy is important.  It is usually easy to grasp how we want our own data to be treated, and yet when it comes to other people’s there seems to be a gap in what we know versus what we do. As you explore the Privacy Policies of the social media sites that you frequent take a real gander at where you...

Social media is all about being social, however when it comes to the legal aspects of the social media sites we all tend to ignore them until something comes up that lights the talk lines on fire. Facebook recently experienced this when they tried to change their Terms of Service.  This broadcast is all about the TOS on social media sites.  There are two sites used for this show, Facebook and Twitter.  As...

December of last year brought about a lot of change for marketers, bloggers, and social media stars as the FTC weighed in some new guidelines aimed at tempering the messages that were being sent to consumers on Internet platforms. These new guidelines are no secret and yet no matter where you look there is differing opinions on what it really means.  The Moxie Maven is going to walk you through what the new...

Have you ever had a Twitter account and no matter what you do you can’t recover the password? Your best guess is that mysteriously in the middle of the night Twitter associated your account with a random new password and they forgot to tell you. Now, you know that Twitter didn’t change your password, but you are also pretty darned sure that you didn’t either. The worse part is the password...

This week is all about the new FTC guidelines. As of December 1, 2009 new guidelines were put into effect that affect bloggers, online marketers, and all those that promote products across social media networks. If you thought the FTC guidelines have nothing to do with you, listen to The Moxie Maven’s podcast and you may very well change your mind. You will find the three biggest changes in the FTC guidelines,...

Have you been wondering what can possibly go wrong when creating your personal branding? Branding is all about making a clear statement about who you are and what you do. During the creative process of designing a brand there can be tremendous euphoria as you discover authentic and powerful ways to get your message across. This process is all about you and your business, and in general does not include “the...

This week tune in as The Moxie Maven explains what it takes to create a personal brand online, and yes, it is possible to do without going bankrupt.  Learn the techniques that the iconic figures of social media use to help you remember them.