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...

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...

Twitter has had astounding growth since its inception in 2007, most notably in 2009. According to research by RJMetrics (@rjmetrics) Twitter now sports a user base of 75 million users and climbing at a rate of 6.2 million accounts per month. For anyone that has ever created a product this phenomenal growth patter is envious for sure. Is growth everything? Well, if you had a product that most people never...

There once was a mechanic that belonged to his local BNI chapter.  Now this mechanic was very good at what he did, and even better he was business savvy, which really shows by how much networking he did.  Each and every week this wonderful mechanic would stand up and tell everyone that he was a mechanic and if the knew someone looking for auto repair that he was the man to do the job. For quite a while the...

If you have followed my articles for any length of time, you know that I am very interested in localizing your social media experience. Twitter has just added a new feature that is sure to please some of you, and sure to keep others, like myself, in anxious anticipation. You can now control the area you would like to see trends from.  This is so exciting to business owners!  Take a look at the photo below...

First let me say that I am an iPhone user, but I have recently been asked how to update a Fan Page from the Blackberry. Is there an application for that? Of course a quick search on the Internet provided the expected results of the general public outcry for an application that quickly and easily let a person update a Facebook Fan Page, but alas there is no such critter. In an attempt to at least provide options...

Dear Moxie Maven I put my company on Facebook.  Now how do I get more people to pay attention?  It really doesn’t do much when all the people I’m connected with are employees! Fan Free Dear Fan Free, Before we go too far, I want to clarify something.  Facebook expects that you will create a personal profile and then you will create a fan page for your business based on your personal profile.  I have...

Dear Moxie Maven A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting you on my screen. You helped me set up a blog but I haven’t done much with it. My real concern is making money off my writing (not a new concept.) I have had freelance writing on my mind for some time. In your article titled “Started a blog, now what should you write about?” you mentioned in the article a business should go to an...

Dear Moxie Maven I know about six months ago I started a blog, I just don’t know where it is now, can you help me find it with the little bit of information that I do have? Surely Lost Dear Surely Lost, In this case I would have to say that Google is my friend! Whatever information that you do have can be typed into a search engine in order to try and find your blog. Use the quotes as a tool to narrow your...

Dear Moxie Maven I have been using HootSuite like you suggested, but when I schedule my tweets they just keep getting sent immediately – what am I doing wrong? Tweet Challenged Dear Tweet Challenged, Wonderful question! Actually, this is the one area that I would say that HootSuite.com is not as intuitive as it should be. So let me take you through the process. First fill in your tweet using the box at the...