More Reasons to Stop Talking About Yourself on Social Media

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Dec 11, 2012 | Business, Social Media

Last week, I shared a social media pet peeve with you: Talking about yourself too much on social media. It’s easy to want to share when great things happen to you, but if you want to keep your followers interested in what you have to say, you have to mix that up...

Why You Need to Stop Talking About Yourself On Social Media (Video)

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Dec 6, 2012 | Social Media

I’ve got another installment of my Social Media Pet Peeve video series today, and this time I’m talking about why you need to stop talking about yourself on social media. Self-promotion on social media is a tricky business, and finding the right balance...

Social Media Pet Peeve #5: Telling Inside Jokes

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Nov 27, 2012 | Social Media

Here’s another installment of my Social Media Pet Peeves video series. This time I’m talking Inside Jokes. Why you tell them on social media, why you shouldn’t, and what all those non-“insiders” think when you do. In short? Don’t do...

Stop Complaining on Social Media (Social Media Pet Peeve #4)

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Nov 13, 2012 | Social Media

Here’s another social media pet peeve video installment, this time encouraging you to stop complaining on social media. Heck, I even argue that complaining in real life is actually better than complaining on social media. Got a problem? Go ahead and tweet it....

Social Media Pet Peeve #3: Sharing a Private Conversation in Public

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Oct 26, 2012 | Social Media

Here’s the third video in my Social Media Pet Peeves video series. Yes, it’s dark. And yes, I need to fix that. In this video, I talk about a niggling, nagging social media pet peeve I see on a near-daily basis: People who have private conversations in...

Social Media Pet Peeve #2: Over-Sharing

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Oct 14, 2012 | Social Media

Ah, the case of over-sharing. On social media, it (sometimes) appears that over-sharing seems to be certain people’s #1 favorite idiotic thing to do. In this social media pet peeve video #2, I share about why over-sharing is so: unnecessary, annoying, and not...