Social media marketing | Liz Hover's Diary of a Web Gal

I’m at it again.

I’ll be doing two social media workshops in Winnipeg very soon. I love this stuff and hope to see you there.

- April 8, The Delta Winnipeg – International Association of Business Communicators / IABC (Manitoba chapter). Full details in the link.

- April 13, Aqua Books – Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinners (email me if you’re coming).  I’ll be co-presenting this one with my pal Polly Washburn.

I’ll be giving practical examples of social media that you can put into practice immediately (or email me if you’re stuck). I hate jargon; fluff; nonsense. I like getting to the point.

In January, I delivered three lunchtime workshops – open to the public – on the topic of social media.

These were presented by my employer, the National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) – a film and television training school based in Manitoba.

We’ve put together a highlights video showing the best bits from the sessions.

I cover a bunch of things beginning with my definition of social media. I talk about the importance of genuine communication online and why you would even bother to spend so much time working on all these social networking sites.

Credits: Four ways social media is changing business information from Mashable; Outposts graphic from ProBlogger.

Last week my blog got hacked.

It got hacked so badly that my host company advised I delete my blog and start over.

So for the last eight days or thereabouts I’ve been literally re-building my blog bit by bit, piece by piece.

Yes. I had a back up file but it refused to upload without errors so I ate a slice of humble pie and decided it was probably best to start from scratch anyway.

I have no idea how the hack happened although I suspect it was via WordPress.

I feel responsible for what happened.

I didn’t protect my blog adequately. And it can happen to anyone at anytime. I’m mad that it happens at all.

Evenings spent republishing posts made me neglect my person duties to my dawg Sadie Shih Tzu.

She got a new hair do on Friday and a Shih Tzu companion for a few days.

But today I decided it was time for some Liz/Sadie portraits to honour the re-publishing of my blog. See the whole portrait series.

I manage two Twitter accounts, neither of which was in my name.

I was getting cabin fever. I’m a dog and an organisation.

So I got me my very own. You can follow me @lizhover.

Or follow my work Twitter @nsicanada.

Or my dog @sadieshihtzu.