Tweet This post is long overdue, as the trip was a few weeks ago, but it feels like just yesterday that I was sipping on Rum Punch on the beach in Barbados. It was almost a year ago that I won the Long Island Press “It Pays to Tweet The Press” Contest. The grand prize…
Tweet I’ve been writing this blog since 2004, and there are lots of older posts that don’t get much love, because no one knows about them! So….I made a new category: Flashback Friday. Starting today and every Friday from now on, I’ll be featuring a group of older posts about a specific topic. For the…
Tweet I am an extremely loyal consumer, and when I see companies using social media to reach out to their customers, it makes me like them even more. One company who has impressed me with their use of Twitter is GoDaddy. I have hosted Basically Becky through GoDaddy.com since my site’s inception in June 2009. I had…
Tweet According to this article on RadarOnline.com, Britney Spears was photographed in Los Angeles with 3 new body art additions. It is reported that they are butterflies, but if you ask me, that’s a Twitter bird in the middle! She has been using Twitter more often. But even I wouldn’t get a Twitter bird on…
Tweet I recently partnered up with Debra from Familylicious Reviews to offer one of her readers a free Twitter Background design by yours truly! If you aren’t already familiar with Familylicious, it is a blog that does product reviews and giveaways. Do you like entering contests online to win free stuff? If so, you should definitely…
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Tweet As you all know, I’m pretty much OBSESSED with celebrities. I write about them often here, and have met a few, back in my days of radio. When I arrived at LAX last week, I looked all around for paparazzi, but was let down when none were waiting in baggage claim area. How do…
Tweet When the Twitter lists feature was introduced, I was super-excited. Before that day, I would use the search feature and save a column on Hootsuite. (Actually, I was using Tweetdeck at the time, but that’s a useless bit of info.) So anyway, Twitter lists were introduced last year, and are limited to 500 twitter…
I was so honored to be asked to be a guest on the Striker Corbin Motivational Program on BlogTalkRadio.com. In the hour that we had, we spoke about the Save Becky story which led to how I first got involved with Social Media. We discussed Facebook, Twitter and how they work together and I also gave some tips for people tweeting for the first time as a business or on your own page. If you missed the show, you can listen to it in it’s entirety below.
Tweet OK, not really, but I was very excited when I saw it. For only being on Twitter for a year, that’s not too shabby. According to Mashable, this is a Twitter bug that has been going on for some time: We’ve e-mailed Twitter and asked them what’s happening. It seems that besides the unusually…
Tweet Today is my 31st birthday. A year ago today, I was working at a job I hated. After work, Harry threw me a party, complete with both our families and baked me a Funfetti cake. I had heard of Twitter, but had not yet joined. Had you asked me a year ago today…
Tweet There are a lot of different third-party applications that claim to make your Twitter experience even better. One has certainly come in more handy than others for me, and that is Refollow. I have found with the more followers I get on Twitter, it becomes a lot more tedious to keep up. Once I…
Tweet This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of LeapFish Inc. All opinions are 100% mine. When I was turning 13, my parents gave me a choice: A birthday party or a computer. As you may have guessed, I chose the computer. A birthday party lasted 3 hours. A computer would bring…
Tweet For the past few weeks, I have been involved in planning the #LITweetup Helps! Food Drive. After just a few short weeks, myself and a great group of 4 other people planned a series of 3 events to benefit Island Harvest. It feels so good to help others, especially during this time of year….
Tweet When I first started on Twitter, my background was a Dave Matthews Band wallpaper. It was fine for me then, but I felt like there was so much more to me then DMB. So I designed a new background: Since I made it in March of 2009, I’ve gotten at least one @ reply…
Tweet Dear Kanye, I forgave you when you had a hissy fit at the Grammy’s in 2004 claiming you were robbed of the Best New Artist award. Everyone has a bad day. I forgave you in 2005 when you said “George Bush doesn’t like black people” during the Katrina Benefit. Partially because I really disliked…
Tweet After I reached a certain number of followers on Twitter, I started to use SocialOomph‘s Auto-DM tool. I now send this direct message to all new followers: “Hi! Thanks for following. Are you as twaddicted as me? You can read my story at <blog link>. What’s your story?#stinkytweet“ There are many reasons to send…
Tweet I attended my second #LITweetup last night. It was held at Croxley Ales in Farmingdale. It is so nice to be in the company of other twaddicts. Every person had some sort of wireless device in front of them, whether it be laptop, netbook, Blackberry or iPhone. There were several videos taken by tweeps…
Tweet One could say that I am celebrity obsessed. I read all the magazines. I peruse all the gossip sites. I watch all the shows. This obsession with celebrity began early. There was that time that I was 12 and was in the Caribbean on vacation with my parents and I saw Jason Priestley. If…
Tweet I just came from seeing my parents and my Uncle and Cousin who were visiting for the weekend. I showed them my blog and we started discussing Social Media and why I would want to “tell the whole world all my business”. My father doesn’t understand why I want to “wear my heart on…
