How do you respond to a negative comment in an online community,  on Facebook? Shut the Page down, ban the commenter, suck up to them? How about a bitchy tweet on Twitter? Fight with them? Ignore them? Promise to do better? Many social media guidelines have a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to addressing negative criticism in social networks, but assessing the situation and the potential positive vs negative outcomes of responses is a skill that comes from experience. PS:  Your marketing intern may not have that skill!

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I often write on social media revenue – how social media sites like blogs and forums and social networks monetize. One way is pretty simple – sell it! The Huffington Post just sold for $315m to AOL (America Online). How do you think AOL will make their money back from this blog?

 

An Australia mother confronts a teacher who belittles her pre-school son – with the help of her blog community. PottyMouthMama had a challenging experience with her young son’s pre-school teacher the other day. I would’ve growled at the teacher, gnashing teeth until she backed into a corner crying, but that is a learned skill, I wasn’t born with it. Though fighting with my little sister helped! From PottyMouthMama: Yesterday when I dropped the Doctor off to pre-school I got chatting with the teachers. One of them started telling me about how the previous day the Doctor was telling another child Continue Reading…

 

embargoed press releases and bloggers

 

Journalists are starting to receive grants to learn social media technologies like SEO. Should we hold a Media and Career Expo where bloggers donate knowledge and expertise to help Journalists adjust?

 

Comments in blogs keep the blogger honest. The world becomes the Editor – a scary brute indeed!

 

I think it’s been a couple of years since I last ran this course – dunno why, maybe because it’s not business focussed specifically, more a general, handson, computer, How To Blog Course (1 full day), on 30th May at the University of Sydney.  Course description: Been thinking about creating a blog for your business or hobby? If you are a budding writer, have a passion for your hobby, are travelling soon and want to keep a travel photo diary online or simply have something to say, this course will teach you the basics of blogging and how to gain Continue Reading…

 

from Addrox You are here because you were looking for scarves (go to http://silkcharm.com) or you were searching for stuff on social networks or you found this blog due to my old silkcharm blog (http://laurelpapworth.com). I’m guessing…. 3? Clever ol’ you. The feed for this new blog  is http://laurelpapworth.com/feed/ or you can keep using the feedburner one. If you see anything that breaks, please email me? laurel@laurelpapworth.com.

 

Note: I’ve moved my blog here as my previous bloghost appears to be a morally bankrupt marketing company involved in cashing in on brandnames and bad faith use of domain names and goodness knows what else *sighs* you’d think with my background I’d not have fallen one of those. I have no patience for unethical types >< ___________ Welcome to my weblog. I’ve given in and done one, more as an exercise in viral marketing than because I think anyone is really going to sit and read it… weblogs are for the benefit of the authors not potential readers, after Continue Reading…

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