One of the great benefits of Facebook is being able to keep tabs on what your friends and family are up to. This is particularly helpful if you are separated by long distances and see each other infrequently. When I graduated from high school nearly 25 years ago, no one had email and certainly social… Continue reading How to remove a friend’s Facebook posts without removing your friend
Author: Kim Siever
I am a copywriter and copyeditor. I blog on writing and social media tips mostly, but I sometimes throw in my thoughts about running a small business.
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There are only 3 times you should capitalize a word
During a class at church yesterday, I noticed the presentation on the screen at the front of the room had an abundance of capital letters in it. Far more than necessary. I see this fairly often, and it’s one of the writing mistakes I correct most frequently. You should capitalize words in basically only 3… Continue reading There are only 3 times you should capitalize a word
Hot Pepper Hot Picks: 17 July 2015
Here are the 20 most popular (listed from most popular to least) social media and writing articles I shared this week, based on the number of likes, comments, and reshares they received.
How To Use Twitter For Recruiting
Someone from content marketing firm Ghergich & Co. recently told me about an infographic they recently created in collaboration with staffing software firm AkkenCloud. The role social media, in general, plays in both job searching and recruiting is growing in popularity and importance, and companies and job seekers can no longer ignore social media as a… Continue reading How To Use Twitter For Recruiting
Do you use ’s to make words plural? Please stop!
Without even trying, it seems I’ve had a bit of a theme in my writing posts recently: writing blunders on social media. Have you read my posts on alot vs a lot and the overuse of the ellipses? It seems I’ll be carrying on this theme with today’s post: the use of the apostrophe when… Continue reading Do you use ’s to make words plural? Please stop!
Hot Pepper Hot Picks: 10 July 2015
Here are the 20 most popular (listed from most popular to least) social media and writing articles I shared this week, based on the number of likes, comments, and reshares they received.
How to tag your Facebook friends by just their first name
Did you know that you can link to your Facebook friends in a comment or post by just their first names? All you have to do is type out their name, select the person from the drop down list, then backspace over the last name. Simple as that. P.S. It works in LinkedIn, too.
Why you’re probably using . . . wrong
Back before social media took off and email was the most popular method of communication, something I saw a lot of was the ellipsis.
Hot Pepper Hot Picks: 3 July 2015
Here are the 20 most popular (listed from most popular to least) social media and writing articles I shared this week, based on the number of likes, comments, and reshares they received.
How to use 1 link to share Facebook posts in 5 locations
In this quick tutorial, I show you how to use Facebook’s built-in sharing tool to easily share links in 5 different places on Facebook.