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The Topic for #DigiBlogChat on November 23, 2021 is Gratitude Marketing! With Thanksgiving this week, a focus on gratitude and thankfulness seems like a relevant topic, and we hope you’ll join us for this chat. 

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Here are the questions for our chat:

Q1. How do you thank your coworkers for a job well done? #digiblogchat 

Q2. How much gratitude is enough? How much is too much? #digiblogchat

Q3. What kind of impact does gratitude have on your business? #digiblogchat

Q4. What’s the best way to express your gratitude as a business? #digiblogchat

Q5. What do you think of loyalty programs and do you have a favorite? #digiblogchat

Q6. Give us an example of a time you went all out to thank someone. #digiblogchat

Q7. How is gratitude marketing underestimated? #digiblogchat 

Q8. How powerful is a thank you card when showing gratitude to a business associate? #digiblogchat 

Q9. What is your gratitude language? How do you like to be appreciated? #digiblogchat 

Q10. Is there someone you need to thank right now and how will you do that? #digiblogchat 

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The Topic for #DigiBlogChat on November 16, 2021 is Power Searching on Google and Beyond! 

Join us on Twitter each Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. PST for #DigiBlogChat. My partner for these chats is @LazBlazter. If you need to know how to participate, click here: How to Join #DigiBlogChat.

Here are the questions for our chat:

Q1. When you really want to find something online, who do you ask for help and how does that work out? #digiblogchat 

Q2. Which alternatives to Google have you used before and how do you find them? (For instance, do you use DuckDuckGo? #digiblogchat

Q3. If you wanted to do a visual search for something, where would you go? #digiblogchat 

Q4. What ways do you have to combat fake news when searching? 

Q5. Have you ever used Reverse Image Search on Google and if so what were the results? #digiblogchat 

Q6. What’s the best place to search for free images for your website or article, and what search terms do you use? #digiblogchat 

Q7. How often do you use a colon within Google search to drill down into a website? #digiblogchat 

Q8. How are you training your apps to search for you? Most social media platforms will serve you more of what you’ve been searching for! #digiblogchat 

Q9. How do people search for and find YOU or your business? #digiblogchat 

Q10. What have you been searching for and unable to find? #digiblogchat

#Digiblogchat Questions November 2, 2021 (Giving Tuesday)

The Topic for #DigiBlogChat on November 2, 2021 is Preparing Early for #GivingTuesday with @BridgetMWillard and @WarrenLNaida. This year Giving Tuesday is on November 30, 2021. 

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Here are the questions for this Giving Tuesday:

Q1. Do you donate to nonprofits on #GivingTuesday? Why or why not? 

Q2. How do you decide to donate on #GivingTuesday?

Q3. What would make you donate to an unknown nonprofit on #GivingTuesday? 

Q4. Would you donate to a campaign you see online on #GivingTuesday? Why or why not? 

Q5. Do you have a yearly budget for online donations? When do you tend to spend it? 

Q6. Have you worked with a nonprofit to help their #GivingTuesday campaigns? If so, what was that like? 

Q7. What do you wish nonprofits did better on #GivingTuesday?

Q8. What nonprofit do you want us all to check out?

Q9. What’s the most interesting nonprofit online marketing you’ve seen?

Q10. If you don’t donate financially to a nonprofit, what other ways could you give?

The topic for #DigiBlogChat on Tuesday, October 26th is Ghouls and Ghosts: Why Automation is Bad, with topic and questions by @AdventureGlass. (Image stolen from Beth Staub’s Facebook page.)

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Here are the questions:

Q1. The Ghouls: Should you automate content? If so, when and why?

Q2. The Ghosts: By automating, can you miss out on real-time opportunities? Explain.

Q3. The demons: Can reputations be ruined via automating? Any examples?

Q4. The Ghosts: How do most people respond to automation? How do you know?

Q5. The Demons: Does automation foster real engagement? Why or why not?

Q6. More Demons: How about that timing? Any examples of auto posts gone wrong due to disasters

Q7. Ghoulish behavior: When does automating work? Give example(s)!

Q8. Ghosting? Does automation mean set it and forget it?

Q9. Demons? Does automation really save time? How?

Q10. Angels? Can you use automation and gain something from it? How?

The topic for #DigiBlogChat on Tuesday, October 19th is Data Strategies with topic and questions by @LazBlazter. 

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Here are the questions:

Q1. When it comes to running your business, do you know what data you need to make good decisions?

Q2. Would you describe your current situation as planned or ad hoc, i.e. you simply do things?

Q3. Have you considered creating a data strategy and if so what did you start with?

Q4. What 5 kinds of data do you believe you need to have to hand? For example, customer feedback, product availability, pricing, sales, wages.

Q5. Where would / could you begin to establish a data strategy?

Q6. What software applications are you using to manage / mine your data?

Q7. Can you share any data mining techniques that you have used and their benefits?

Q8. How often do  you use data and what do you do if you don’t have a use case?

Q9. Are you applying data quality checks to your data and the analytics you do?

Q10. Is data aggregation a risk or an opportunity, what do you think?

Q1. If your friend had a tip jar, would you be more inclined to leave a little something? Why or why not? 

Q2. What is the best way to ask people to follow your friend on social media?

Q3. How often do you engage with what your creative friends post? 

Q4. What are some easy ways to give your creative friends some business?

Q5. What are some free ways to support your creative friends? 

Q6. Tell us about a time you went the extra mile to support a friend!

Q7. What advice do you have for your creative friend about approaching opportunities for collections, exhibitions, or galleries?

Q8. When have you told a family member or friend who’s not on social media about a creative friend’s business?

Q9. What are some of your own creative outlets? Post pictures!

Q10. What have we left off this list of ways to support your creative friends?

Q1. What are your top tips to gain new followers?!

Q2. Understanding your audience is key! Can you identify your target audience’s demographics?

Q3. How do you find accounts that fall within your target audience based on interests and demographics?

Q4. Tweeting often is an important component to increase your following! How often are you posting?

Q5. What are some popular topics that typically gets your target audience engaged?

Q6. Interaction with others is crucial. What steps do you take to connect with your target audience?

Q7. How do you find new hashtags to use in your tweets?

Q8. What actions do you take to stay authentic from other accounts and stand out?

Q9. Please share some advice on creating an inviting profile that will intrigue other users!

Q10. How do you promote your accounts and draw in other users beyond the platforms?

1. Are you using Instagram to share photos or videos? Which format is your favorite and why? #digiblogchat
2. Do you use Instagram for fun, or do you promote products or services or your business? #digiblogchat
3. When you see a long caption, do you skip over it or at least scan it to see what it’s about? #digiblogchat
4. Do you ever use location tags, hashtags, or tag people or businesses? #digiblogchat
5. What’s your end goal for using Instagram? Connecting with friends? Getting more followers or conversions? #digiblogchat
6. Have you ever thought about blogging, but didn’t know where to start? #digiblogchat
7. Do you enjoy seeing comments on your Insta posts, and do you usually respond to the people who comment? #digiblogchat
8. Are you a geek who enjoys knowing where your followers come from and when they’re the most active? #digiblogchat
9. Which media type is your favorite on Instagram? Posts, Stories, Reels or another? #digiblogchat
10. What’s the most fun experience you’ve had on Instagram? #digiblogchat

1. What do we mean by eLearning? What has your experience been?
2. What has changed in learning via the internet during the past 5-6 years?
3. For better or for worse, we’re all learning online. How much of eLearning has been a result of innovation? How much has been a result of necessity?
4. For those of you who’ve been students, which classes have you taken? For instance, have you used Udemy? Coursera? EdEx? Harvard? Google?
5. Which technology have you really enjoyed? For instance… Zoom? What could be improved?
6. There are thousands of free courses offered online. Which have you taken advantage of and why? How did you decide to take those courses?
7. For those of you teaching online, what has been your experience in creating online courses?
8. How does online learning become an equalizer—helping us to improve or close the gap between different groups of people? (For example seniors, differently abled, or people without access to traditional resources.)
9. How might eLearning actually reinforce existing divides?
10. In an ideal world, where could eLearning take us in the future? Where would we like it to take us?