Hi all – welcome to our second Q&A session.
I’m here from 7-8 tonight, but I’ll be popping in throughout the week to answer any questions you have, so just leave them below in the comments!
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Hi, I'm Jess Van Den. Blogger, silversmith, zine-publisher... and social media fangirl!
I have created a thriving business through the judicious use of social media. After helping many others do the same through blogging and speaking about it, I wanted to share my knowledge with a wider audience - all of YOU!
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Okay all, we’re set and ready to go. I know you’ve all been chatting to me in blog comments and on the Facebook page, but feel free to chat for the next hour, and/or leave me any social media questions that are on your mind!
HI.
1. How do you link a blog post or a flickr image to a tweet?
2. You gave a list of things to do on the FB book page. (which by the way I haven’t had time to set up yet)like put a photo of work in progress. Are the photos posted somewhere else and either linked to or dragged to FB or are they loaded directly to FB? And how do you post links to FB?
3. Can you show us a schedule or YOUR media schedule? Like how often and when during the day and week you are on the various medias posting and how much time you spend at each? Approximately
Thanks for this course. It is tremendous!!
1. Do you mean how do you tweet out a blog post or flickr image? In that case, you just copy and paste the blog post url into twitter and click tweet
I’ll aim to to into more detail on this later!
2. You can upload photos right onto your page wall from your computer. And again, just copy/paste the page url you want to share into the ‘link’ section on your FB Page wall.
3. Twitter – every day, throughout the day. FB – multiple times throughout the day. Pinterest – 2-3 times per day. Blog – post twice a day, check dashboard regularly
Another question: On Pinterest is it okay to post a board of some of your own photos? My creative juices have started flowing and I want to do swatches of crochet lace and see what they would look like next to each other. I can see these boards being a great tool to design things and then look at them later to “really see how they look” if you know what I mean. Sometimes in the flush of designing everything looks great, but on second or third look things change.
I think that’s a great idea! You can pin whatever you want
Generally the only reason you have to be careful about not pinning too much of your own stuff is because you need to avoid overt self-promotion, but in the case you just described, I don’t think that’s an issue 
Hi Jess,
I loved your random blog post today! I got your post with the picture of the poster comparing how fortunate we are compared to most people in the world. I was wondering if you had the source for it and if I could use it…Thanks!!
Also, I’m thinking about adding videos from time to time. I know you use Vimeo so I assume that’s better than Youtube. Could you maybe give us some tips about video making?
Thanks and have a great day!
Laurie
Hi Laurie! Ohh, sounds like one of my earlier posts before I got image attribution right! If you could give me the post url I can have a look – alternatively, just pop the image url into tineye.com and you might be able to find the source (to find the image url, just right-click on the image and you’ll see the ‘copy image url’ option).
I use both vimeo and Youtube – I prefer the cleaner look of vimeo, which is why I use it here, but for my public videos, I’d usually upload onto both (if I remember) as youtube has much broader reach and exposure.
I’m not the best video maker, but I’ll aim to put something together on that.
Thanks Jess! I was going to do a video for my March newsletter and woke up today with a bad cold. My husband thinks my voice is sexy, but I think I’ll wait until next month!
Hahaha!!