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Hear Angelique Interviewed at the 2012 TechPhx Conference!

December 3, 2012

A few weeks ago I spoke at the TechPhx Conference in Tempe, Arizona. My topic was “Crafting an Effective Blog Post: It’s not just about the words!” (More info here.) My presentation wasn’t recorded, but immediately afterwards I was interviewed for the conference podcast by Scott Josephson and CJ Feierabend.

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Angelique’s Thanksgiving Vacation Twitter Challenge 2012!

November 21, 2012
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I issued my first Thanksgiving Vacation Twitter Challenge in 2009. It’s back again for 2012! Twitter is six years old and has over five hundred million active users, but there are still plenty of people who have opened Twitter accounts and aren’t quite sure what to do with them. Are you one of them?

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Novice Bloggers: Ask Angelique questions LIVE on BlogTalk Radio Nov. 12!

November 7, 2012
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UPDATE! The show was great! Thanks to host Heather Bennett for having me on! If you’d like to hear the recording of the show, click here!

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Angelique Speaks about Effective Blog Writing at TechPhx 2012

October 29, 2012
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I’m very pleased to announce that I’m speaking at this year’s TechPhx Relevant Media Unconference in Tempe, Arizona. This is a fab two-day FREE conference with great speakers and really interesting topics. I’m really looking forward to hearing some of the presenters!   Here’s the topic of my interactive talk:

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More Facebook Fun with Interest Lists – A Step by Step Guide

October 22, 2012
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Facebook thinks it knows what’s best for you. According to Facebook, you didn’t really know what you were doing when you clicked the “like” button and followed a business, school, band, charity or TV show. Sure, you think you want to see updates from that page, but Facebook wants to show you other things.

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How and Why to use Facebook’s Biz Page Post Scheduler

September 24, 2012
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It’s easy to forget that Facebook business pages have their own post schedulers. Facebook doesn’t promote its own native scheduling program much, even though Facebook discourages page administrators from scheduling posts using third-party applications like Hootsuite and Buffer. Facebook seems to want everyone to post live all the time, which is, frankly, ridiculous.

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New Facebook Privacy Problem: How strangers can see your photos

September 17, 2012
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I’m visiting my family in Michigan, and the other day I went shopping with my father. When I came across the display you see to your left, I had to take a picture and post it to Facebook.

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Choosing between Real Life and Real Life

September 10, 2012
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On Facebook and Twitter, people often debate the relative amounts of time one should spend online and offline. The situation is usually framed as a choice between talking to people online and talking to people face-to-face, with unique, live events considered more important than Internet events. But what happens if the situation is turned inside-out?

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Don’t be a Selfish Pinner

August 27, 2012
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Some Pinterest users have sadly adopted the horrid practice of removing artist, merchant and location information from pins so their captions can be cryptically self-expressing, e.g. “blue,” or — and I hate this one with the blazing heat of a thousand suns — “yes, please.”

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How To Twitter Chat with Tweetchat — Lots of Pics!

August 20, 2012
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My favorite Twitter chat program is a free, web-based application called Tweetchat. This particular program is very popular because it’s easy to use and gives you many customization options. Here’s a quick photo tutorial for using Tweetchat.

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