by Leesa Renée | Jul 7, 2017 | Algorithms, Digital Marketing
Why am I seeing his pulled pork masterpiece in my newsfeed again? I wondered to myself. About four days earlier, a friend in my friends’ list posted a photo of the piece of pork he grilled on his barbeque. Four days later, it was still showing up in my Facebook...
by Leesa Renée | Apr 6, 2017 | Social Media
I’ve stopped using both Twitter and Periscope because they do not do enough to make using their services enjoyable to use. Periscope allows people to leave inappropriate comments during your live broadcast. Twitter is notorious for allowing trolls to hurl abuse...
by Leesa Renée | Mar 30, 2017 | Digital Marketing
Generation X didn’t invent the Web, but it largely built the damn thing. Generation X gave you Google and Twitter and blogging. Not that it gets any credit.” – Mat Honan Generation X, or GenX for short, are between 36-52 years old in 2017 (or 33-56,...
by Leesa Renée | Mar 27, 2017 | Podcasting
Have some criteria. Nothing wrong with that. Talking to no audience is like being a street entertainer on a back alley…no traffic, no ears, no purpose. That’s what a colleague said to me after I shared my nervousness about appearing on a new podcast. I...
by Leesa Renée | Mar 6, 2017 | Virtual Events & Telesummits
I hosted and produced my very first telesummit in 2008. Thirty-six speakers over eight days. It was massive. I also earned just below $20,000 in registration fees and added 5,000 emails to my list. I hosted the event again in 2009 and 2010. Then, in 2010, I helped my...
by Leesa Renée | Mar 2, 2017 | Digital Marketing, Innovative Ideas, News, Personal
There is a scene in the film, Hidden Figures, where Dorothy Vaughan, played by Octavia Spencer, finds out that her team of female mathematicians, who calculate formulas by hand using paper and pencil to help NASA join the space race, will be replaced by a computer....
