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Have you ever wondered how you can back up all the data that you put onto Facebook, Twitter, and your blog?

You never know what could happen to Facebook, Twitter or your blog. By backing up your accounts on a fairly regular basis you are less likely to lose any important info that keeps your business running.

There are tons of quick and easy ways to back up your social media data.

Facebook: Facebook recently allowed all users the ability to download all of their content – the info on their wall, photos, videos etc. This is how you do it:

  • Go to Facebook and log in
  • Go to Account Settings
  • Click on “Download Your Information” and allow Facebook to download your info
  • Wait for an e-mail that will let you know your info is ready
  • Go through the security test that allows you to download your info onto your desktop
  • Once it’s downloaded, double click it to unzip. From there you can open it and view all your information.

Twitter: There are many ways to back up your tweets. Even the Library of Congress is categorizing and storing tweets. So how can you store yours?

  • TweetStreamApp.com:  This site has a free version which allows you to sync up to 3 Twitter accounts and provides detailed analytics, or you upgrade to the paid version which allows an unlimited amount of accounts for only $5 a year! The only downside is I found it takes quite a while to sync your data, but the site is really easy to navigate
  • TweetBackup.com:  This site is free and super easy to use. No bells and whistles but it is super easy to navigate and it's nice being able to sync and save specific hashtags.

Your Blog:

  • WordPress Blog: If you have a WordPress blog, download the plugin WP-DB Manager, this plugin gives you the option to optimize, backup and restore your entire database. If you want to just backup specific parts of your WordPress blog, in your Dashboard, click ‘Tools,’ then click ‘Export’ and you can then choose which posts you’d like to backup
  • Non WordPress Blog: If you don’t have a WordPress blog you can use BlogBackupr.com. This service works for all other blog formats, provides a daily backup, runs over the internet, and there is no need to install anything!

So now that you have the tools, I highly recommend before the month is over to go backup your data.

I'd love your comments or feedback on backing up all your Social data. Leave me a comment below.

I post on Facebook and Twitter a lot more than I blog and I provide a lot of tips, tricks and techniques to some good stuff for free, so if you want to get the very latest news and tips, Follow me on Twitter! Don't forget to find me on Facebook as well. http://Twitter.com/EdHudson http://Facebook.com/HudsonEnterprises
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Many marketers and novices alike have looked at Facebook and scratched their head and wondered what value it could possibly be to their business.  Many have dabbled with Facebook, set up accounts, added friends, gotten on Friend's lists, and still don't see the value of it.  I've been there, done that and wondered myself.

It wasn't until I discovered fan pages that I realized there was some real value in Facebook. Before fan pages, Facebook was nothing more than a place to lose a few hours when you were bored or to catch up wuth old school friends you hadn't seen for years.

When you set up a fan page for your business you can instantly keep in contact with your potential customers and with your actual customers and clients. It gives you the opportunity to tell them about what you are doing (relating to your business), new products, services and other things that are of interest to them.

With several hundred fans you can very quickly make sales of any new product you launch and you can promote and earn as an affiliate from any new product launch by anyone in that niche.

Through your fan page you have instant access to the Facebook feeds of all of your fans. This means whenever you update your fan page it updates their feed and they see it … instantly.

This is an incredibly powerful feature that will help you to keep in touch and to promote your business.

Setting up a fan page isn't difficult, but if you don't know how to set one up properly for maximum effect (and it's not child's play) then you will struggle to recruit fans and earn your full potential from Facebook.

We began offering Fan Pages a few months ago on a limited basis, and now, as Facebook continues to grow by leaps and bounds, have added Custom Fan Page design to our regular menu of services we over.

Take a minute and visit us on our Facebook Fan Page. http://FB.com/GetACustomFanPage

I hope you'll LIKE our page while you're there, and grab the free download we have up once you LIKE the page.

See you there.

Ed

I post on Facebook and Twitter a lot more than I blog and I provide a lot of tips, tricks and techniques to some good stuff for free, so if you want to get the very latest news and tips, Follow me on Twitter! Don't forget to find me on Facebook as well. http://Twitter.com/EdHudson http://Facebook.com/HudsonEnterprises
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In the days and weeks ahead I would encourage you to Start 2011 With This Kind Of Change:

Everyone works on change on their outside, weight control, stop smoking, add exercise. But this year in your meditation or making 2011 your BEST ever year, think about change ON YOUR INSIDE.

Happiness- know what makes you happy and do more of that stuff.

Inner PEACE- do whatever it takes to secure this in your life and you will be miles ahead of everyone around you and at near self mastery

Health- make it on your to do list to check INSIDE your body – blood test, blood pressure measurement, and colonoscopy, health screenings as age appropriate.

Social- check your attitude toward others and put Mr. or Miss Grumpy out to pasture. Say in your mind you have mellowed out and that agitated old self of yours has been put out to pasture and you are going to walk around with a lot more smiles on your face and keep your mouth shut to much negativity. The world will start working a lot better for you with people in your life.

Mental- Try something novel and get better at it, like a foreign language or musical playing. At the end of 2011 you will have something you don't have now.

Look INSIDE YOU with resolutions this year, and from the INSIDE OUT make a better you in 2011. Life is short. Don't delay.

Happy New Year 2011 !!


I post on Facebook and Twitter a lot more than I blog and I provide a lot of tips, tricks and techniques to some good stuff for free, so if you want to get the very latest news and tips, Follow me on Twitter! Don't forget to find me on Facebook as well. http://Twitter.com/EdHudson http://Facebook.com/HudsonEnterprises
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Next Tuesday will be Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for the month of October. For IT admins this means it’s time to clear your calendar and prepare to address a record-setting 16 security bulletins addressing 49 different identified vulnerabilities. This breaks the current record of 14 security bulletins that were issued back in August 2010.

Most of the updates plug security holes that could allow malevolent internet users to inject malicious code into the users’ computers. As these holes are usually in features not switched on by default, Microsoft usually labels them as Important (the most critical updates are labeled Critical).

It’s a long list of affected software that includes: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3, Office 2003 Service Pack 3, Office 2007 Service Pack 2, Office 2010, Office 2004 for Mac and 2008 for Mac, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, SharePoint Server 2007, Groove Server 2010, and Office Web Apps.

These patches are considered important as we head into the last quarter of the year, a time when many businesses have a heavy volume of online shopping. This period sees many financial and retail companies going into lockdown mode where they don’t update their systems.

Microsoft will release the 16 updates at approximately 1 p.m. ET on Oct. 12.  I think I'll take that afternoon off and turn off my phones.

Ed

I post on Facebook and Twitter a lot more than I blog and I provide a lot of tips, tricks and techniques to some good stuff for free, so if you want to get the very latest news and tips, Follow me on Twitter! Don't forget to find me on Facebook as well. http://Twitter.com/EdHudson http://Facebook.com/HudsonEnterprises

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