Leslie, Author at Leslie Kirk - Miva Merchant Specialist

Twitter Updates for 2010-01-21

January 21, 2010 by Leslie Leave a Comment

To answer my own question – Yes you can use the EmporiumPlus Toolkit to add related items to the PATR screen http://bit.ly/1dlmSg snippet 54 #
Could not have said it better myself: Why Twitter's One-Click ReTweet Feature Is Absolute Garbage http://bit.ly/8gM083 #
Wolfpaw Partners with MaxMind to Bring Integrated Fraud Screening to Miva Merchant http://bit.ly/7cMwWz #MivaMerchant #
@GlendaleDesigns thanks! good link for job seekers like me. in reply to GlendaleDesigns #
Ouch! I need to work on this @mivaleslie got a grade of 88/100 on @grader. Check it out: http://twitter.grader.com/mivaleslie #
Any MagicJack users out there? What are your thought? #

Twitter Updates for 2010-01-20

January 20, 2010 by Leslie Leave a Comment

OMG – Hampton Inn free wifi commercial – looks like me trying to find wifi. #
@spetracco yup, you get my reply? in reply to spetracco #
Really sucks when you put your resume on your site and the site isn't up. #
@GlendaleDesigns Never hurts to re-post good stuff for the #MivaMerchant Community 🙂 in reply to GlendaleDesigns #
@surveillanceguy @GlendaleDesigns makes you wonder what all these open source applications are doing to become PCI-compliant in reply to GlendaleDesigns #
Cool contest for #MivaMerchant store owners: Contest for 1 Year of Free Miva Merchant Hosting – no purchase required http://bit.ly/5UXs7L #
@spetracco Did you win?!? Wahoo! in reply to spetracco #
Will have to look at this. RT@JesseNewhart SimplyHired brings LinkedIn to job-search process [CNET] http://bit.ly/6y5kkC #
Working on doing some tweaks to http://www.lesliekirk.com – moved my resume to the home page. I welcome any input on it… http://fb.me/4ZKveKt #

Twitter Updates for 2010-01-19

January 19, 2010 by Leslie Leave a Comment

Dugg! RT@netblazon Any #mivamerchant users on Digg? http://is.gd/6jEcd Please consider this post! #
How not to use Twitter: Twitter joke led to Terror Act arrest and airport life ban http://bit.ly/7Qe0bE #
Two blogs to write today and working on updating my resume http://bit.ly/6pR1DF as I continue to look for a job. #

Social Graces of Social Media

January 18, 2010 by Leslie Leave a Comment

I was bringing a friend of mine up to date on my recent unemployed status and started talking about how I’m looking to help online businesses incorporate more Social Media into their marketing strategies. His response almost stopped me in my tracks: “I’m trying to get people to stop using Social Media.”

I intently listened to the problems he was up against with Facebook, Twitter and other “Social” online applications. He talked about how it cut into productivity with all the games and such. Not only was he having to deal with the deluge of email related spam, now he was having to handle company resources being eaten up by all the bandwidth to the Social Media sites.

Then he said something that reminded me of the AOL Chatroom days – “people say things on Facebook and Twitter that they won’t say to your face.” It’s beyond the old, now updated, joke “What happens in Vegas winds up on YouTube.” Comments made in cyberspace can be far worse than accidentally hitting Send All on something you probably shouldn’t have been forwarding in the first place.

In Tamar Weinberg post The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook she has some great common decency tips:

“Publicizing a private conversation on a wall post. In case it isn’t obvious, Facebook wall posts are completely public to all your friends (unless you tweak your privacy settings). Private matters should be handled privately: via email or even in Facebook private messages.”

Read more: http://www.techipedia.com/2008/social-media-etiquette-handbook/

Forbes.com asks the question Are You Practicing Proper Social Networking Etiquette? It touches upon the conversation I was have with my friend:

“where managers have limited or banned Facebook for being a distraction and monitor employees’ personal pages for images or comments that might reflect poorly on the business.”

Chris Brogan addresses the Facebook games that I so dislike in his 2007 blog post Considering Social Network Etiquette

Don’t play along, if you don’t want. It sends the message of how you want to use the app. Don’t feel that this is a ‘when in Rome’ situation. Use the networking tool the way you want to use it.

As users of Social Media, we have to remember that we are putting ourselves “out there”. It is something that even I have to remind myself, to “practice what I preach.”

Twitter Updates for 2010-01-18

January 18, 2010 by Leslie Leave a Comment

My site at Dreamhost is giving me fits again. #

Twitter Updates for 2010-01-17

January 17, 2010 by Leslie Leave a Comment

I know what it is that I don't like about @Seesmic Desktop latest retweet function – I can't add any comment to it if space is available. #
@equalman well Al Gore did invent the Internet 😉 Are any of your hour long sessions available online to rewatch? in reply to equalman #
Not sure I like the retweet using Seesmic Desktop but I think I see where they are going with it. Time will tell. #
Wow, big changes to Seesmic Desktop's latest update. Collapsing column is great fro managing multiple accounts. I think I like it! #

Glittering Up Social Media

January 13, 2010 by Leslie 1 Comment

This past weekend I drove over to Atlanta to meet up with Connie Porcher of Celebrate365 and her sister Benita of Willow Springs … a Family Farm at the AmericasMart Atlanta. Connie and I had talked about me accompanying her on other trips to “Market” in the past but I never seemed to have the time. As the time got closer, it appeared I would have the time. Losing my job helped push me towards going. The generosity of friends cemented the deal.

What did the Gift Mart have to offer me? Connie had told me that Social Media had become a hot topic at previous Markets. She thought it might be a good place to try and drum up some business within a group of people and products that I understood – ornaments, holiday collectibles, glitter, with my roots back to Holiday Treasures. I would be able to connect with Designers, Manufacturers and Buyers. With buyers being the store owners.

I also had the opportunity to listen to Erik Qualman, author of Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business. It was a good reinforcement to what I already knew and was putting into practice.

As I followed Connie around while she worked – see A Day With Connie – we also talked about her successes with Facebook, Twitter and her WordPress blog with the people she was gathering information from for her publication Celebrate365. Most of the people we talked with knew about and used Facebook, while many didn’t understand Twitter. That gave to the opportunity to explain it’s micro-blogging abilities.

My only disappointment at AmericasMart Atlanta was the lack of wifi availiblity. I had wanted to be able to show people what we were talking about, so I toted both my laptop and my iPod Touch. I figured an event that touted “Project Social” would have wanted to make sure that all means of access were available. I was able to tweet and post to Facebook via text message but the true interaction was lost because I didn’t have a “smart phone” with a data plan (not really a smart thing to have when you don’t have a job). I did try hunting for the wifi signal, but if it wasn’t where I was trying to explain the benefits of Facebook and Twitter it wasn’t worth the snipe hunt.

It was a fun time catching up with old friends and even other users of Miva Merchant. How could I not have a good time, wearing a hat like this? It was a great promotional giveaway for a new company – Glory B Hats.