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Lunchtime Leaders meet today

Lunchtime Leaders will be meeting today,October 7,2010. Today’s topic is “Establishing a Web presence for only $10 a year — Using free tools and low-cost domain name services to build a simple and affordable website”and will be presented by Stewart Savage of Abaton Consulting.

Lunchtime Leaders is a complimentary leadership development program [...]

6-things-you-should-never-reveal-on-facebook:Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

6-things-you-should-never-reveal-on-facebook:Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance.

 

At Abaton Consulting,we firmly believe that your personal identity needs to be protected. Sharing too much information about you through social media leads to unnecessary risks.

A recent Yahoo Finance article by Kathy Kristof explains a few things you should never reveal on Facebook. I would [...]

Managing social media

Silicon Beach Training provides a comprehensive list of tools,tips,and tricks for managing your social media. http://ow.ly/2Fuox

When it comes to managing social media,any resource that reduces the amount of time required to manage those resources can help a modern business. People can quickly become overwhelmed with the task of reading,analyzing,and [...]

What is in store for traditional media?

The Future of Social Media in Journalism is changing. The big question is who will win?

Over time,traditional and social media will slowly converge. The best features of both will combine into a comprehensive and powerful media model. The component of traditional media that must survive for this convergence to be successful is the [...]

Panel to discuss Apple Technology

Contact:Stewart Savage Phone:530-392-8324 email:info@abatonconsulting.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 09,2010

Vicki Carr,of SideCarr Technology Training,and Larry Dieterich,owner of MAC Paramedic,will be speaking at the September 15,2010 meeting of the Progressive Business Exchange. Ms. Carr and Mr. Dieterich will be demystifying technologies from Apple Computers and helping [...]

Digg breaks an axle

The new Digg is now available…and breaks an axle. Quite embarrassing to say the least. I was quite excited to see the email message from Digg announcing their updated site and additional social networking features. Digg has been sharing bits and pieces of their latest revamp the past few months and I have been patiently [...]

Honesty is the best policy

How To Avoid Being Lied To –Forbes.com. Pamely Meyer offers some great tips on how to spot someone that is being less than truthful. She points out that distant relationships increase the opportunity for lies and deception.

Social medial certainly has the potential for increasing deceptive practices. Do you really need to be honest [...]

Facebook Places –Now open for business

http://www.readwriteweb.com/biz/2010/08/what-facebook-places-means-for-small-businesses.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29

Business owners need to claim their businesses and also review tbeir social networking strategy. Take a look at Places and see what you need to do to capitalize on this new resource.

Retweet or don’t retweet

This retweet by brian solis brings up a great point. What is the value of social networks if we are only regurgitating what others have said. Is parroting sufficiend or should each retweet build on the previous post.

Check out Brian Solis’blog at briansolis.com

“briansolis:RT @paulcarr Apparently “social media consultant”means “one [...]

Set and Enforce Technology Policies

Employees Ignore Social Media Policies,Play “FarmVille”on Company Time [STUDY].

Technology makes it easy for people to become distracted. Social media such as Facebook,MySpace,Twitter,and YouTube pull workers away from the task at hand. Throw in smartphones and text messaging and you have a recipe for significant loss in productivity.

As [...]