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Friday, December 7, 2012

SCAM ALERT…SCAM ALERT…

 

BEWARE: SCAMMING your bank account

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This came in my email “JUNK” box…

If you get this email DO NOT RESPOND…

NOTE: This graphic is not part of the email…only used to designate
ambiguity, puzzlement, questions…
I will use this symbol as my SCAM ALERT icon… –
GuruDan

 

HERE IS THE EMAIL…taken from my JUNK box…links have been disabled for your protection…

“ SUBJECT: RBC needs your help resolving an issue with your account.
FROM: RBC Royal Bank of Canada [royalbank@host135-161-149-62.serverdedicati.aruba.it]
Sent: Fri 07/12/2012 6:01 AM
To: GuruDan

Dear Customer,

We need your help resolving an issue with your account. To give us time to work together on this, we've temporarily limited what you can do with your account until the issue is resolved.

We understand it may be frustrating not to have full access to your RBC bank account. We want to work with you to get your account back to normal as quickly as possible.

What's the problem?

We want to check with you to make sure that no one has logged in to your account without your permission.

Please take a moment to change your password and create new security questions. You should also take a look at your account information and recent transactions. Make sure that your account information (address, phone number, etc.) hasn't changed and that you recognize all of your recent transactions.

Client e-mail:

gurudan@…………

How you can help?

It's usually pretty easy to take care of things like this. Most of the time, we just need a little more information about your account or latest transactions.

To help us with this and to find out what you can and can't do with your account until the issue is resolved, log in to your account.

Click on the link below to proceed

https://www1.royalbank.com/cgi-bin/rbaccess/rbunxcgi%3FF6=1%26F7=IB%26F21=IB%26F22=IB%26REQUEST=ClientSignin%26LANGUAGE=ENGLISH

Yours sincerely,

John Hudey - Accounts Manager.

Copyright © 2012 Royal Bank of Canada. All rights reserved. “

PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND OR CLICK ON THE LINK…It will upload malicious spyware into your computer system.

 


Wednesday, December 5, 2012

A Social Media Strategy for Influence, Authority and Time Management…

 

7 Must Have Social Media Business Tools for Influence, Authority and Time Management

Written by Erin Nelson
Categories: Social Media, Social Media Marketing, social media tools

You’re in social business. Among the many things on your busy agenda, you need to research relevant influencers in social media.7 Social Media Business Tools for Influence, Authority and Time Management

From them, you can learn, connect, utilize their communities, and engage in conversation. You are also expected to advocate your brand, through storytelling and the publication of your professional/niche knowledge. To make your efforts in influencer research and content creation worthwhile, you then have to distribute your ideas and content.

Unless you want to spend all day, every day consumed in social networks – here are seven tools to help you efficiently engage in the processes of social business.

 

1. Topsy

In every network that can be used for social business, identifying relevant influencers and their topics of discussion is essential to assert your own industry authority and be “in the know.” Topsy is an app that helps you locate influencers by keyword, company name, person or category.

Social Media Tool Topsy

You can see the degree to which people are influential within a keyword and have access to what they have written on Twitter, Google+ and other portals online. You can also view what others have published about these influencers and what is being said about them in independent, online conversations. All of this information is coded in a user-friendly, efficient and sophisticated way – making it highly effective for the speedy researcher.

 

2. exploreB2B

Finding a network where you standout as an expert is difficult in today’s world of social 2.0. exploreB2B is a publishing platform for professionals in which you can assert thought leadership by writing articles about your industry knowledge and connecting to relevant influencers.

Social Media Tool Explore B2B

Besides establishing authority by writing about industry findings, producing case studies, and how-to articles that reflect the message of your company – you produce the effect of branding your knowledge. If enough people find your content useful and offer their endorsement, you can even earn an, ‘expert’ badge.

Articles themselves receive traffic on the platform and serve as good material for other social media networks (Twitter, LinkedIn, Quora).

 

3. ScoopIt

Being a leader in your industry doesn’t just mean creating and distributing your own content. It also means finding a way to curate content in a way that shows the breadth of your interest and knowledge.

Social Media Tool Scoopit

Are you a valuable resource for industry information if you only promote your own ideas? Maybe. But if you also make available the insight of others who have influenced you (alongside your own), your content suddenly promises more credibility.

ScoopIt allows you to curate articles from all online sources and categorize them based on topic or theme. (Think Pinterest for written content.) As content creation becomes more widespread, the ability to curate excellent material also matters for proving your expertise and enhancing your industry reputation.

 

4. TweetDeck

Once you have chosen to invest in consistent Twitter engagement, you need to find a way to monitor your interaction. Responding to people who have engaged with you in conversation, re-tweeting influencers who post useful information for your followers, and answering direct is made easier by TweetDeck.

Social Media Tool Tweetdeck

While Tweet Deck could be misconstrued as “Twitter in a different layout” – it’s clean usability saves precious time throughout your workday. There’s no need to spend four hours/day on Twitter, when TweetDeck can help you manage important messages and updates within a medium that makes all forms of interaction more efficient.

 

5. Tweepi

Tweepi is the Twitter tool that helps turn accounts from a cute attempt of being influential to toting a powerful amount of followers who are both relevant and willing to promote what you have to say.

Social Media Tool Tweepi

Tweepi works by entering the Twitter handle of any influencer that is relevant to your profession. A list of their followers appears (ie people who have already chosen to follow tweets about your same or similar industry topics). You can choose whom to follow by ticking the box next to their name. While this system is not fail-proof and there are no guarantees the person will follow you back, there is no doubt the number of followers you acquire and activity your account sees, will sky rocket by exposing yourself and engaging with a high-volume of relevant Twitter users.

It’s up to you to decide whether or not you consider the followers gained from Tweepi as “organic.” If that’s important to you, mull it over. Just ask yourself if at the end of the day you can really tell who would or wouldn’t have followed you if you were engaging in relevant Twitter conversations. To many, Tweepi is just a faster way to get where you want to be.

 

6. Buffer

Buffer is a healthy social business automation tool that can take time spent ensuring that you have enough content spreading throughout Twitter, to a minimal time investment. Fill in the buffer queue with links, quotes, pictures, comments and set the times are which you want your content to go out to Twitter, Facebook or both. (You can use SocialBro, another useful Twitter tool to find when are your optimal times to share by regional demographic and time zone.)

Social Media Tool Bufferapp

Should you find something you wish to share throughout the day, it is simple to add to the queue. Buffer provides automatic shortened links, which critical for those 140 character tweets.

Besides freeing yourself from time-consuming manual habits, Buffer gives you a clear sense of what your “social language” sounds like. When you look at the entirety of your buffer queue for the day, you can tell if you sound like someone to whom you would want to listen.

 

7. Social Oomph

SocialOomph is the broadsword for Twitter and social automation. Timed status updates are available on almost any social platform, queues of status updates, automatic follow back, scheduled blog posts, and statistics on clicks and downloads. It seems like, if social automation is possible, the app has the feature.

Social Media Tool Socialoomph

Probably the most useful feature of SocialOomph is automated direct messages for new followers on Twitter. While this tactic isn’t for everyone, sending out a direct message to new followers is a good way to introduce yourself and what you are doing. As soon as your account has reached a certain amount of influence, you will not be able to send everyone a direct message. (SocialOomph comes to the rescue.)

As a word of warning: it is easy to get “lost in automation” using this tool. The sheer amount of features can be more time consuming than tweeting on your own. Also, keep in mind that a lot of these features can be used for spamming innocent people – it is up to the user to refrain from doing so.

 

Get Started!

Social media tools are evolving at a blinding pace. Choose them, and choose them wisely, but be sure you do in fact commit to these networks and their automation/organizational tools, to maximize your social business influence, interaction and speed at which you distribute content and connect. Think in terms of both time – and money – management.

Guest Author: Erin is the CMO for the international, professional-publishing platform, exploreB2B. Moving between San Francisco and Berlin, she relies heavily on global communication. You can follow her @erincnelson.