Nowadays, it's a best practice to connect and maintain relationships online with your target audience using social media if you really want to grow your small business. However, managing a social media presence can be a full time job in and of itself. And, honestly, what small business owners have time for yet another job?!?! Introducing SocialOomph! SocialOomph is one of the tools I use to boost my social media productivity. In this video, I tell you about 2 areas that the free version of SocialOomph allows: 1) Auto-following new followers and 2) Automating direct messages - both of which are extremely helpful in cutting down your manual interaction with Twitter. Using SocialOomph for Twitter Automation Enhance your Twitter productivity with SocialOomph. Other Benefits of SocialOomph (free version):

• Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts
• Twitter Stats
• View @mentions/retweets
• Publish new updates (you'll need

It is never a surprise when prospective clients come to me wanting to redesign their existing website or just make some minor changes to it and they can't get in touch with their previous designer or simply want to end the relationship with him/her. Even less surprising is when they tell me that they don't have any usernames or passwords to access their domain and/or hosting accounts. Here's a recent story of one of my clients with this exact problem! "Recently, I found that my website was going to a GoDaddy placeholder page so I tried contacting the web designer to make changes to my site but she was unresponsive and I didn't know what to do. I then contacted GoDaddy and they told me that the domain has ...

Have you ever wondered where your twitter followers were located? Well, wonder no more. I just found a great, free - yes, free! - online application that does exactly that. It's called Foller.me. So what does Foller.me do? Foller.me is a Twitter service that gives you detailed information about a specific Twitter user in the least amount of time! On one page, you can see the standard info that's on each Twitter user’s page like how many followers they have, how many tweets, etc… but it also shows recent topics, #hashtags, @mentions, and my favorite, where their followers are in the world! Your turn... Go ahead and see who and where your twitter followers are! And don't forget to use Twitter and Facebook icons ...

Great News!!! Microsoft Internet Explorer is finally dying off!! With any luck, it will be dead really soon! If you can't tell by the many exclamation points I'm using, I have been waiting for this news! If you know any web designers/developers who have had to pay "special" attention to IE for coding purposes and is probably bald from pulling their hair out over it, people who have been frustrated by security vulnerabilities of IE over the years, and people like me who are now used to all the plugins and extended functionality that Firefox provides, the best browser since sliced bread (IMO),  then you know that there is a real hate towards IE, and frankly, for good reason. Go ahead, just try Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome (#3 browser in market share ...

Okay since I'm such a fan of using free services, I tested GMail's Voice and Video Chat Plugin today. It's really cool! GMail Voice and Video Chat Plugin is a free service (at least throughout the rest of this year I heard) integrated with Gmail (and Google Voice if you have it) so it can be used right from within your browser and with an Internet connection (great if you have crappy cell phone service at home).  Just use your microphone  (just audio chat) or webcam (for video chat) while using inside Gmail. Call Phones from Gmail Video is courtesy of Google. Check out the Official Gmail Blog for more information. You can also customize your messenger preferences by clicking the Chat tab located on the GMail Settings page. So here's how it works: 1. You click on "Call ...