YouTube: Find and Subscribe to Video Channels

There are so many videos on YouTube that it may seem overwhelming to find some of interest to you. There’s an easy way to always find videos you like. Companies, bands, and others set up channels for their videos. You can subscribe to them so they’re easily accessible for you, and you can set it [...]

Facebook: Sort News Feed to View Only Friends or Pages

After a while, you may find that you’ve added many friends in Facebook and liked many pages. So many, perhaps, that your news feed is a mix of both and it’s difficult to separate the two. The default is to display both. It’s possible to sort your news feed so that you can view only [...]

Facebook: Hide Pages

If you have liked a Facebook page and want to remove it from your news feed so the posts don’t display, you can hide it. This removes the posts from your news feed, but does not unlike the page.  You can undo this at any time to have the posts display in your news feed again. [...]

Facebook: Unhide Pages

Over time, you may find that you have liked many Facebook pages. So many that you hid some from your news feed. What if you want to see the posts from a hidden page again? Simple! You can unhide them. You can also set up lists just for pages to sort your news feed; see [...]

Content Strategy: Posting Procedures in Facebook

One way to provide value to your Facebook community is to write procedure posts. You can deliver needed information right to your users, right where they live, right when they want it. The format definitely lends itself to preparing instructions in a clear, brief manner – and allow commenting as well. I’ve been writing procedures [...]

New LinkedIn Group for Facebook Page Admins

I’m excited to announce that I’ve just set up a new group in LinkedIn. It’s called Facebook Admins for Pages. The group is for Facebook business page admins, and provides a discussion forum in which to share tips and information for managing pages. Functionality for pages is ever-changing. Benefits to business increase with each new [...]

(Final Look) Tech Comm Points to Consider

Looking back over at least two years of posts, I’ve found a few I’d like to hone in on. They’re not all of the same category, but are topics I think are important one way or another. My other (Final Look) collections are others. But these are the ones I’d like to leave you with. [...]

(Final Look) Social Media: New Writing Methodologies

Facebook, Twitter, mobile, touchscreens, and video – all were topics of discussion on my blog. They’re definitely a new way to share information. Here are a few posts. . . . My First Procedure Written in Facebook It’s very easy to add procedures and summaries to Facebook. What’s nice about the platform is that you [...]

(Final Look) #tcchat Posts

The chat will continue. Here’s a look back at some posts about it. Thanks to all that have participated, read the transcripts, translated tweets – everything! We’ll keep that weekly, live world-wide convo going. #tcchat: Achievements and Review Following and Participating in #tcchat  Discontinuing #tcchat: Some Reasons More will be added to this post. Tomorrow, [...]

(Final Look) My Crystal Ball

It’s common for people to write about upcoming trends or what they see coming up. Here’s a recap of my predictions and thoughts on the future. . . . Must-Follow Trends for Tech Writers  This post is from 2009, but was 100% on the mark, which was a surprise. Everything came to pass. Well, I’ll [...]