all things pretty: February 2013

This year I will be doing a short course on internet marketing through UCT, massive excitement!

So to prepare myself I went on Twitter – the last of the social media platforms I’ve never been brave enough to conquer.

Twitter sent a message to all my email contacts asking them to join and follow me and what an overwhelming response I got – the general consensus was – ‘I’m not ready for Twitter – still too old school for that.” These messages came from very interesting sources like journalist and art director friends of mine that I’ve always thought was on the front line of technology.

My other die-hard online friends periodicaly takes a detox week or month away form social media to focus on family and friends (the real life ones).

With our business being online I need to check, post, follow, like, pin on a daily basis to interact with clients on different platforms and it’s all becoming a bit overwhelming. Addictive … but overwhelming.

To illustrate, herewith a list of all the social media I have to maintain: ... sigh

Personal website and online portfolio: http://dmmadewithlove.wix.com/margaux

D&M made with love website: http://www.wix.com/dmmadewithlove/home

Personal Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/margaux.smit

D&M made with love Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/margaux.smit/DmMadeWithLove

Personal blog: http://margauxtait.blogspot.com/

D&M made with love blog: http://dmmadewithlove.blogspot.com/

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/dmmadewithlove/

Tumblr: http://margauxtait.tumblr.com/

Twitter: @MargauxTait

Linked: http://za.linkedin.com/pub/margaux-tait/3b/27b/9a0

Not even mentioning keeping track of all the different passwords!

It feels like it’s all repetitive – the same information just dressed up differently for each media.
Hopefully this course will let me see the light and make sense of it all. On that note, I’d like to share some very funny jokes on the subject.