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Re: Workplace Scheduling: Excel Alternatives to Help You Better Plan Your Shifts

MatthewRay — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:31:25 -0000

ShiftAlertz (http://ShiftAlertz.com) is a another GREAT employee communication and shift schedule application for small and large business that realize that better communication with their employees leads to higher moral, decreased turn-over, and greater awareness of shifts when there are weekly schedule changes.

Re: Connections: Rochester Venture Adventure

MatthewRay — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 22:45:33 -0000

Great interview all around!

Re: I'm Leaving San Diego to Become a Nomad

MatthewRay — Sun, 19 May 2013 20:39:54 -0000

Awesome, Ben! Always inspired by your travels and hope you have a safe set of trips ahead of you!

Re: Archive of #WPOChat March 21 2012 Moderated by Alois Reitbauer

MatthewRay — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:51:28 -0000

Jonathan, do you still continue to do this chat on a regular basis? I see it hasn't been picked up since March, but haven't seen any news on it stopping. Let me know! thanks

Re: Meet the Uniiverse | Encouraging a World un-plugged

MatthewRay — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:42:56 -0000

This looks very cool- Will check it out this weekend for sure. The thing that captures my attention is the 'living smart' part, as I know folks in my local community in Rochester, NY has shared this smart living habits that I've taken into consideration over the years. PS: The video embed you have doesn't work (it seems to point to an image)

Re: IPv6 Security Considerations

MatthewRay — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:16:14 -0000

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Re: Tweet up + Festival = RocTwestival…

MatthewRay — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:17:16 -0000

Awesome summary and great pics! Glad you made it out! And those older people were probably my folks :)

Re: Compelling Facebook Fan Pages

MatthewRay — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:53:28 -0000

One of my favorite ones I've seen recently is Rochester Americans (hockey) facebook page. Under the "Amerks Nation" tab. http://www.facebook.com/Roc...

I'm B2B myself, and looking for benchmarks to hit as I update our page to be more compelling and to hold more information. So great timing on your post :)

Re: We're Back - And Need Your Help! | Rochester Twestival 2011

MatthewRay — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:31:09 -0000

Ashley, Mike - Please share the form with your favorite non-profit. We will only review charities that have submitted.

Re: http://amandalindsayrose.tumblr.com/post/1669397180

MatthewRay — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:05:49 -0000

Well done, Amanda! This was great to share with our Rochester, NY team.. as well as folks who want to learn more.

Re: Twitter Explains Recent Phishing Attack

MatthewRay — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:27:20 -0000

I don't know the forum I was in, nor torrent, because I don't belong to one, but I had to change my password. It was strange that at the same time (a few hours later) I received an email confirmation from Yahoo! asking me to verify my email address at gmail to have access to an account on Yahoo!. I denied and said it wasn't me that sent that request.. but I wonder if it is related. The username they gave me in the email from Yahoo! was, "ra*******" --- Anyone else receive something like this?

Re: tumblrs better than pumprs | for what it’s worth.. my wber picks for ‘09 the...

MatthewRay — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:13:16 -0000

Agreed - the choices were lame this year. U2 shouldnt even be on there (as much as I love them) and the Death Cab tunes are all the same..
My Top 10:
1) Dirty Little Rabbits - Hello
2) Matt & Kim - Daylight
3) Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
4) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
5) Metric - Help I'm Alive
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6) Pendulum - Propane Nightmare (which I thought was MUSE for the longest time)
7) Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends
8) The Limousines - Very Busy People
9) Discovery - Orange Shirt
10) The Prodigy - Omen

Re: 10 Ways to Expand Your Social Media Networks

MatthewRay — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:51:28 -0000

Most importantly... you need to have a GOAL! Know why you want to be active, why you are promoting yourself, and stick to it as your goals change.

If you don't have a goal, you won't see any value to being in social networks to start with. It may be the biggest reason why folks join networks and say they are bogus 3 days later; because they don't have a goal to expand on.

Re: The Competition for Your Social Graph

MatthewRay — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:17:00 -0000

These social networks are becoming too busy - it doesn't seem entirely organized as everyone seems to want to be everywhere. Twitter and Facebook status can now connect (which is great), but what people don't seem to understand is that there are different audiences on different platforms. People on Facebook don't get the @ and #. The move to allow status updates from Facebook to Twitter was a much better move. I see Facebook trying to be the center hub.

The one thing that seems to be really lacking in social media platforms is the event feature across ALL the platforms. There needs to be a way to cross-connect events from say.. your local news event site, Ning Events, LinkedIn Events, and Facebook Events. Because everyone is in a different space (or in more than one), I understand why I may get 3 event invitations to 1 event, but it doesn't need to be that way. I feel like I'm being spammed by events lately across too many platforms. Maybe it is a lazy admin, or maybe it's poor design on the sites - none the less, I would like to see an "events social network" that is the center of the network, and links back out to LinkedIn, Facebook, Ning, etc. That way, I can accept/deny the event once.. and it is congruent across ALL platforms.

To keep that central hub status, maybe Facebook will come up with the cross-connected events...

Re: 7 Ways To Prevent #FF from Jumping The Shark

MatthewRay — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:09:14 -0000

Nice Eric.

I started using #Follow instead of #FollowFriday. Takes up less characters... and it still falls under the concept of "giving kudos and recommendations on ppl to follow at the end of the week (Friday)"

I really agree with the @username followed by a reason why I should click on the profile to view them further in depth.

If they are all lumped together, I tend to ignore it and move on. A few clever people at least added a location to their recommendations. Of course I want to follow people in my home town; it tightens the community!

And I agree with Mark - Keep this post handy, or re-write it after a week pointing back to your original post - maybe you learned something from a comment ;)

Take care,
@MatthewRay

Re: Know and Master Your Social Media Data Flow

MatthewRay — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:44:41 -0000

I am really not a fan of Hellotxt and Ping.fm; a few sites that throw out the same msg to all your sites.

1) half the time, your core audience is following you across all platforms.. they don't want to see your msg more than once! (so stop spamming them)
2) the other half of the time, it is irrelevant to your audience. Facebook for instance. If I tweet something with @ and #, my FB audience won't know what I'm talking about and may eventually hide my updates from their stream.

The bad news there is that you are no longer reaching an audience that you eventually want to reach when you ask from for a poll, or review of a service/product, or try to sell them something (like a seminar or a book, or a push to read your latest blog post).

Know your audience across all platforms. Be respectful and thoughtful. Don't be a spammer (you might be and just don't know it).

Thanks for posting, Louis!
@MatthewRay

Re: Moving beyond social media metrics to business outcomes

MatthewRay — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:53:37 -0000

Good post, Dirk.

I engaged in a Twitter Chat on Sunday night, #BlogChat. The topic was "How would you convince your boss (company/sr. management) to start using social media?

Summary posted here: (http://www.theviralgarden.com)

I think the main conclusion that we all found out was that social media really needs to align to the goal of the business. What is the bottom line.. what are you trying to achieve? And you need to prove that to your boss; that is aligns with the new business strategy.

In measuring social media, I wouldn't measure JUST # of followers and retweets without knowing who they are. It's like signing up for an e-mail newsletter that I don't read.

But I feel you are spot on. What I would measure is WHO (company, position, type of engagement with others) is following and can I qualify them as leads or industry leaders that are truly interested in my postings after engaging in the conversation.

Numbers can only go so far.. you need to know that those numbers align to the overall business goals. Are they attainable? Are they sustainable and cost effective? What changes to strategy need to be made; is there a process in place for that paradigm shift once you realize your position and acceptance?

Also comes down to educating the shareholders (another conclusion from #blogchat). As you stated - we are in the trenches and understand SM.. but the shareholders are most likely not there, and don't' get it. They need to know where, who, and when people are talking about the business for the buy-in and acceptance of measurement.

Thanks for posting - first time I've visited.

Re: Shortening The Distance Between Us

MatthewRay — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:06:11 -0000

Absolutely! Ever sense joining twitter I have conversed with some really talented people not only in Rochester, NY, but also around the world. With the Rochester Crew, I was able to find out about @SMC_Rochester - and from there was able to strike up a quick conversation with people I haddn't met before, but knew them online.

I would have never connected with the people I met in Rochester in this short period of time since joining the @SMC_Rochester - and especially not without Twitter. It stream-lined my efforts to meet and talk with an innovative crowd!

Re: @finkd: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Joins Twitter

MatthewRay — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:03:08 -0000

He did say, "Fink Out". Never hearing that phrase before.. I looked it up:
Fink out: to decide not to cooperate with someone or something (after all)

http://idioms.thefreedictio...

Was it the actual phrase being used? Or was it the last name of the alleged person that set up the account?

@MatthewRay

Re: Mashable on Tumblr - Twestival - Scott Harrison, Founder of charity:...

MatthewRay — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:25:56 -0000

Rock on, Scott! And Pete, thanks for the post!

Looking to do some good in Rochester, NY.

Looking forward to the event - going to be a fast-paced 10-days of planning to go...

@RocTwestival
@MatthewRay

Re: Why so big?

MatthewRay — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:50:18 -0000

haha. I like your reasoning for the pictures being big.
Raise the status quo!

Re: When Your Staff Turns Against You with Social Media

MatthewRay — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:36:47 -0000

The good thing about posting such negative comments on Facebook and LinkedIn is that it's a liability to the employee that does write negatively about the company. I would think most companies have an ethics policy of some sort that states one cannot talk negatively or act in a nagative manner while representing the company (as an employee).

LinkedIn and Facebook tie you down to your name. If you talk negatively about one company, the next company that hires you may not hire you because of what you had stated. It's the web, just about everything is searchable.

Twitter, on the other hand, may be able to hide the face of the employee, for a bit. But if the username is using their account regularly and has any links or people that know them, then they'd be in trouble.

I bet a lot of companies are very hesitant to get into social media because of the negative, possiblly anonymous, content that could spawn from opening up.

But... it's a risk a company should be taking these days. They need to do it right, and as you stated, learn how to react to social negativity and reprimand when needed.

@MatthewRay

Re: Thank You Comcast and Why I Love Twiter

MatthewRay — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:54:41 -0000

Great success story!

Re: Personalization not Automation

MatthewRay — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:22:29 -0000

You guys see this yet? TweetLater: http://www.tweetlater.com

Interesting site with keyword alerts and scheduled tweets...and autotweet.

Re: Personalization not Automation

MatthewRay — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:20:22 -0000

But, Ping.fm and hellotxt ( www.hellotxt.com ) do take away from the reasons of being on specific social networks. You are there to talk to your audience - and each is different.

You should have different audiences in each of your social networks (some interlinking) and you should be posting specific messages to that specific audience.

Your LinkedIn people don't want to know that you you are going out with your crew all night at the bar and anyone around should meet up with us.

But, if don't post messages like that, then you are in the clear :)

Thats a big reason I wouldn't want to broadcast across all networks, my audience is different in each.