This week’s topic? Perception and How We Use it! Image by santiagotorrescl95 from Pixabay

The Topic for #DigiBlogChat on January 18, 2022 is Perception and How We Use it! This week, @MaricarJagger graciously suggested the topic and provided the questions. 

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Here are the questions for our chat:

Q1. Why is perception important, especially in business?

Q2. What can influence the impressions you form of other people or situations?

Q3. How do perceptions can affect communication?

Q4. How does perception affect our behaviour?

Q5. How can perception be improved?

Q6. How do you manage perception?

Q7. Can you trust your own perception? How do you know?

Q8. How can you improve your perception of others?

Q9. How does customer perception affect your business?

Q10. How can customer perception of you be improved?

New Year’s Resolutions #DigiBlogChat – Image by StockSnap from Pixabay

The Topic for #DigiBlogChat on January 11, 2022 is New Year’s Resolutions! We’ve been on vacation for a couple of weeks and hope you’ll join us. 

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Here are the questions for our chat:

Q1. How many resolutions is a good number for most people?

Q2. What baby steps could you take to make sure to make resolutions a habit?

Q3. How does revisiting last year’s resolutions help you with this year’s?

Q4. Tell us about a resolution in the past that was very successful.

Q5. Tell us about a not-so-good resolution that you won’t repeat this year.

Q6. Are you a proponent of sharing your resolutions publicly? Why or why not?

Q7. Are your resolutions divided into subcategories? What are they?

Q8. What’s the best way to make New Year’s resolutions stick?

Q9. What tips do you have for others making their resolutions?

Q10. Would you ever consider not making resolutions at all? Why or why not?

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The Topic for #DigiBlogChat on December 14, 2021 is Holiday Recipes! We do something similar to this every year on our chat. So we hope you’ll join us and bring some good cheer. 

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Here are the questions for our chat:

Q1. What’s the best dish or cocktail you’re looking forward to during the holidays? #digiblogchat 

Q2. Are there any strange ingredient substitutions you’re planning to make? What are they? #digiblogchat 

Q3. What non-alcoholic hot beverages do you recommend for your friends and family who don’t drink? #digiblogchat 

Q4. What meaty dishes will you be cooking for the holidays? Or share a veggie main dish if you’d rather! #digiblogchat 

Q5. Have you ever gotten take-out food for the holidays and altered it to make it more festive? Please explain! #digiblogchat

Q6. What have you baked lately and how do you customize your baking? #digiblogchat 

Q7. We’re all so busy during the holidays! What’s a simple meal you’ve made? #digiblogchat 

Q8. Do you have any special recipes that you’d like to share? #digiblogchat 

Q9. How are you challenging yourself with your holiday cooking this year? #digiblogchat 

Q10. This one’s for Randy: It’s 5:00, so what adult beverage will you serve? #digiblogchat 

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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! 

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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?