http://wildheartsweb20.com Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:33:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wildheartsweb20.com/shift-to-a-more-positive-attitude-guest-post-by-nicole-bandes http://wildheartsweb20.com/shift-to-a-more-positive-attitude-guest-post-by-nicole-bandes#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:28:56 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=706 Don’t You Hate Them? You know, those people on Facebook that are always posting positive messages. You just KNOW they have to be hiding some deep seeded misery and despair. I mean really, can someone honestly be THAT positive ALL THE TIME? Well, actually, yes and no. It really is possible to be genuinely happy and positive [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/shift-to-a-more-positive-attitude-guest-post-by-nicole-bandes/feed 10 http://wildheartsweb20.com/livefyre-a-cut-above-the-commenting-systems-out-there http://wildheartsweb20.com/livefyre-a-cut-above-the-commenting-systems-out-there#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:16:11 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=696 Last year I went to Word Camp KC and I had heard about Livefyre for a commenting system. I had an account with them and kind of left it alone and used my blogs native commenting system. I believe it was during a #140conf event that I was tweeting from I mentioned something about Livefyre [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/livefyre-a-cut-above-the-commenting-systems-out-there/feed 9 http://wildheartsweb20.com/my-pet-peeve-in-social-media-this-week http://wildheartsweb20.com/my-pet-peeve-in-social-media-this-week#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:30:55 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=690 In February I was accepted to speak at #140confNYC and I figured I couldn’t be that in demand that someone would already want to steal the spot light from under me. I was wrong. I did in fact have a friend who decided to be opportunistic and assumed that because we were friends she could [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/my-pet-peeve-in-social-media-this-week/feed 1 http://wildheartsweb20.com/twitter-chats-worth-checking-out-2 http://wildheartsweb20.com/twitter-chats-worth-checking-out-2#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:39:32 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=687 So I got a little side tracked with getting off to a roaring start on the Ultimate Blog Challenge, but with good reason. I had to watch the last game of the NCAA as my KU Jayhawks had made it this far. They didn’t win, but they tried hard this year to get where they [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/twitter-chats-worth-checking-out-2/feed 16 http://wildheartsweb20.com/sharing-my-blogging-achievements http://wildheartsweb20.com/sharing-my-blogging-achievements#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:38:30 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=671 As I mentioned on my page I am ramping things up on my blog. I was looking at my Alexa rankings over the weekend and I have to say that gave me the impetus for kicking things back into high gear here at Wildheart’s Web 2.0. My rankings have improved drastically and I am so thankful [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/sharing-my-blogging-achievements/feed 3 http://wildheartsweb20.com/my-life-on-twitter-an-infographic-from-visual-ly http://wildheartsweb20.com/my-life-on-twitter-an-infographic-from-visual-ly#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:20:19 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=659   While I think the shopping statistic isn’t me. I do see that the workaholic statistic is. It also looks like I am pretty steady on my Twitter activity. Some of the topics are maybe not completely accurate but some are. I do talk a lot about my son. I also get in social a lot [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/my-life-on-twitter-an-infographic-from-visual-ly/feed 7 http://wildheartsweb20.com/steam-and-authenticity-by-jim-tigwell-guest-post http://wildheartsweb20.com/steam-and-authenticity-by-jim-tigwell-guest-post#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=652 Authenticity is one of the core concepts of contemporary social media. It means a lot of things, but can be summed up as the practice of representing yourself the way you are, rather than the way you’d like people to see you. This helps your audience engage with a person rather than an organization or [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/steam-and-authenticity-by-jim-tigwell-guest-post/feed 1 http://wildheartsweb20.com/personal-experiences-with-steam http://wildheartsweb20.com/personal-experiences-with-steam#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=651 My first experience with Steam was when a friend bought me Borderlands. There was a deal for a 4 pack, and he wanted to include me. I was very skeptical of digital distribution, though I’m not sure why, given that my chief method of acquiring games was through torrents. The notion of a company spying [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/personal-experiences-with-steam/feed 1 http://wildheartsweb20.com/netflix-vs-blockbuster-contest-post http://wildheartsweb20.com/netflix-vs-blockbuster-contest-post#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:44:37 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=647 Chris Voss is having this contest over on his blog and I thought why not participate since I can definitely use $100. I found this contest via a mission on Empire Avenue a social stock market where you can buy and sell people. That is a whole other post for another day or a series [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/netflix-vs-blockbuster-contest-post/feed 0 http://wildheartsweb20.com/steam-an-online-social-network-for-gamers-by-jim-tigwell-guest-post http://wildheartsweb20.com/steam-an-online-social-network-for-gamers-by-jim-tigwell-guest-post#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=639 When I was asked to write about Steam, I immediately went into evangelist mode, but wanted to temper it a bit. Today I’ll talk about what Steam is and what it can do for you, next week I’ll share some of my experiences in the Steam community, and then follow up with the kinds of [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/steam-an-online-social-network-for-gamers-by-jim-tigwell-guest-post/feed 0 http://wildheartsweb20.com/politics-and-social-media-clash-sam-brownback-vs-emma-sullivan http://wildheartsweb20.com/politics-and-social-media-clash-sam-brownback-vs-emma-sullivan#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:54:33 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=634 This year I picked a general theme to guide me in blogging. I decided the one thing I needed to do is be more intentional with what I do online to make me the best advocate of the Internet possible. For starters there is a lot of legislation going on in DC that I have [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/politics-and-social-media-clash-sam-brownback-vs-emma-sullivan/feed 5 http://wildheartsweb20.com/wildheart-social-media-in-2011-the-year-in-review http://wildheartsweb20.com/wildheart-social-media-in-2011-the-year-in-review#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:25:36 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=623 A couple of days ago I finally had the time to sit down and really think about what worked for me and my company in the social media scene last year. I also looked at what didn’t work because this is just as important to my business as I want to [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/wildheart-social-media-in-2011-the-year-in-review/feed 6 http://wildheartsweb20.com/the-game-of-like-and-launchpropelling-your-biz-forward http://wildheartsweb20.com/the-game-of-like-and-launchpropelling-your-biz-forward#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:59:59 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=619 So the last two weeks I have been participating in a fun contest over on Facebook which has been geared towards building up your business presence before the holidays. It is called “The Pre-Holiday Game of Like” One of the game challenges that we have been assigned is to read the [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/the-game-of-like-and-launchpropelling-your-biz-forward/feed 7 http://wildheartsweb20.com/podcamp-topeka-2011 http://wildheartsweb20.com/podcamp-topeka-2011#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:04:20 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=611 Last year was my first year attending a Podcamp. There was a great turnout from all over the north east Kansas area. I presented two sessions last year, one on digital design and the other on blogging. This year I am digging a little deeper into the greater picture of pushing your blogging content out [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/podcamp-topeka-2011/feed 0 http://wildheartsweb20.com/my-food-experiences http://wildheartsweb20.com/my-food-experiences#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:15:07 +0000 jcheray http://wildheartsweb20.com/?p=607 Lately I have been doing a lot of heavy, thought intense posts and today I have decided to do a little lighter more fun post. Today I want to share with you what my favorite foods are and also some of my food journey’s. I grew up in a small agricultural town where you either killed [...]]]> http://wildheartsweb20.com/my-food-experiences/feed 0