Last night I attended the Social Media Club South Florida monthly meeting at the Ana G Mendez University System in Miramar. I have been going to these gatherings for about almost two years now, and every time I go I am uplifted. So much so that I sent a tweet today expressing my positive experience.
Besides learning some great tips on Linked In, it was great to see new people participating. One guy just moved to South Florida from England to be with the love of his life. The Social Media Club of South Florida has built a community of like minded people from all walks of life. We celebrate communicating, technology and yes…socializing! That is what it is all about – people and connections.
I will be posting a video shortly of some ninja tricks to make your Linked In profile rock.
I rarely go to Ocean Drive, but tonight I strolled down like a tourist taking pictures of the beautiful colors in South Beach. I had gone to see the perigree full moon directly on the beach. (Pictures here on my Mi Caminar Facebook Page) What a contrast..quiet moon and one minute away bustling SOBE. I love all the colors in the art deco buildings and the vibrancy it gives the city.
A Miami Tweetup live on Radio! Well, that is not what I was thinking when I got together a couple of my Twitter friends for Jim Fried’s 100th show celebration on his Fried On Business show on 880thebiz.com. I wasn’t even thinking that it was a Tweetup until Mike La Monica mentioned it. And the whole rap song got going because I asked Carlos a simple question on Facebook pre-show, when we were yakking about the show. [click to continue…]
I presented at the Miami Chamber of Commerce this past Wednesday with Maria De Los Angeles, Bill Grunau of Circle of One Marketing and Marvin DeJean for the business empowerment series workshop titled ” Mission Possible: Social Media Success.” Maria and I spoke about engaging Facebook Fan Pages. We wanted the presentation to be easy to understand for the perspective of a small business wanting to get going with a Facebook page. We featured some active social media enthusiasts in Miami: Miamism, Soul of Miami, Go Palo and others.
For me this was the best part: sharing stories of the local Social Media Community in Miami. These people and many more have made a big difference in my life and there is no way that I would have ended up feeling comfortable talking at the Chamber without the great and real connections I have made with so many people.
The video and complete blog post with additional tips I didn’t mention will be coming up shortly. For the moment, I wanted to share the powerpoint with the links I mentioned in the presentation so you can start creating your own Fan Page if you haven’t done so already.
Most photographers are usually behind the scenes shooting to get the best picture, or as Carlos says, ”I go the extra mile to get the best shot.” I always take my video camera to most of the local tweetups or Social Media events in Miami. So I finally gathered some footage that’s been sitting on my hard drive so you can get to know Carlos Miller a little better.
Here on this video you can get an uncensored totally spontaneous moments of Carlos as he hangs out the window of a car at the General Motors Croqueta Crawl, or wearing the Chef hat in honor of Ricky Bakery, or taking picture of Mike La Monica at Monty’s. I swear he didn’t even know I was videoing him while he was lost in his pursuit of getting footage of arriving at Gilberts bakery. [click to continue…]
A mother of two started a website a few years ago called MomSpark.net. She bought the .net domain because the .com was not available. Little did she know that in a few short years, her blog would end up blossoming into a huge community of mom bloggers.
All along, the person with the .com domain did not do anything with the domain, until now. She legitimately owns the domain and although Momspark.net registered and secured the trademark, she cannot own the domain or even claim it unless the woman with the .com sells it to her. [click to continue…]
In this article on CNN, titled “In an information age, soft power wins”, we can see the immediate impact that technology and social media has played within the last month in Egypt. The voice of many can create a big change in a very short time through the use of technology and the freedom to express our voices. Who would have imagined that a simple hashtag on twitter like #egypt would become a source of news for me even two years ago? [click to continue…]
Recently I have been implementing with one of my customers targeted Facebook “likes” to the fan page using geo targeted advertising. This is targeting an ad on Facebook by Region, city and age group. In one month, the “likes” increased by over 50%. My client is a small business with less than 500 likes, so this was a huge amount in such a short time. I believe the cost of advertising was less than $300. [click to continue…]
In this Social Media show with Jim Fried, I again try to motivate people who are on the sidelines to get out there and start creating some content they are passionate about. In this article by Techium, they speak about being able to make a living off of 1000 true fans. Now these are fans that would subscribe to your blog, set up google alerts about you and drive a couple of hours just to see you. If you have 1000 of these people spending $100 per year, you can realistically end up with a yearly income of $100,000. [click to continue…]
