You know, I honestly enjoy my time on Twitter…

Tonight I saw a tweet about a live party on Ustream with @MariSmith (for those not familiar, she is a “Relationship and Buzz Marketing Specialist” born in Scotland, lived in Canada -yay – and now is in California.  She is very successful with Facebook, Twitter and Social Media) , so I decided to join the party. My virtual friend @Teri8D is always a reliable source of good social media fun, and it was her tweet!

Onto Ustream (a type of live broadcasting)  I go and find about 60 or so people live online with Mari who is streaming from her kitchen in California. A friend flits about in the background helping prepare for the ‘live’ party a little later.  It was great fun, chatting about some social media tips and even just chatting.  She even had a few draws for some prizes, and I won one of them!

I correctly answered a question about facebook and won @Davelakhani ’s Book “How to Sell when Nobody’s Buying”  (I think it was, in the excitement I may have won a different title of Dave’s – no matter I say, It’s Dave Lakhani!)

Why so exciting? I have been following Denise Wakeman’s blogs for some time and she has mentioned Dave and his book many times. It is too cool that I won a copy and cannot wait to receive it!

So, that’s my Twitter Good News for today, I won a book.

Have you any good news or success stories from Twitter?

PS. I asked Dave’s permission to put his book pic here… so it’s ok

Technorati Tags: social networking, Twitter, virtual assistant

As I was setting up a new fanpage for a client today I noticed that the username section in facebook now seems to have an option to allow you to change it.  Something they said would not be available when they announced usernames in June.

When the usernames launched last month some people chose a name not necessarily related to their actual name and one they later regretted.

If you were in this group, you can fix it now.  Simply go to your settings tab and under   account settings you can go in and change your username.

My advice… choose wisely, especially if you have a business presence attached to your facebook profile.

Technorati Tags: branding, Facebook, Social Media

Social Media work has been taking off for my Virtual Assistant business, Time on Task VA Services, lately.  Clients are contacting us from all over to get help setting a plan in place that along with custom profiles can help establish an effective online presence and be a support for their marketing plan as well.

That said, I wanted to create a new look that would stand out and say to the world “We love working with social media and helping our clients bring their social networking efforts to a new level.”
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Technorati Tags: social marketing, Social Media, social networking, virtual assistant