Fun Fact!

The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.

Fun Fact!

Contrary to popular belief, opossums, squirrels, chipmunks and mice do not carry rabies.

Fun Fact!

The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.

Social Media...tools

A big part of social media is frequent updates to stay "top of mind" with your facebook fans, Twitter followers and blog readers.

My weapon of choice is the Apple iPhone.

It is the easiest smartphone on the market to use and has a number of social media applications that can be used to update facebook, Twitter, blogs and PRWeb. You can pick up one for $99 at your local Apple store. Best bet is to get it directly form Apple so that they can give you the quick tour of how to use it!

Social Media and You

Social Media is here to stay, regardless of your personal feelings about the viability of the medium.

This post is the first of a series that looks at social media, the tools and best practices for making it work for you. We'll answer the most common questions:

• What is it?
• How does it work?
• Will it work for childcare?
• How do I do it right?
• If I build it, will they come?

Let's start by defining social media. Here's the definition per Wikipedia:

Social media is content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies.

At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content. It's a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to many) and is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers.

Social media has become extremely popular because it allows people to connect in the online world to form relationships for personal and business. Businesses also refer to social media as user-generated content (UGC) or consumer-generated media (CGM).