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...

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...