Being Cheryl: Social Media Marketing Strategist from Columbus, Ohio.

It’s my one year blog birthday and my 100th post! When I decided to pull together a list of my favorite posts from the past year, these are the first ten that came to mind. Enjoy!

1. How Central Ohio Businesses are Using Twitter
Interviews with seven different businesses from Columbus, Ohio about why they got into social media, how they’re currently using it and what results they’ve seen.

2. The Evolution of Communication
A humorous look at how communication started with grunting and somehow evolved into this thing called Twitter

3. Social Media is a Kegger
What is social media? It’s a huge frat party (so you can either sit in the corner by yourself or get laid.) An analogy of social media and its best practices.

4. 8 Ways to Promote your Blog Through Social Media
Taken from my WordCamp presentation, ways you can spread your content through social media.

5. Get your Twitter Profile to 100% Completeness
You know how LinkedIn has a “100% completeness” scale for your profile? I made one for Twitter.

6. What’s in a URL?
Why you’re dot com or @username isn’t the most important thing in the world.

7. How NOT to react to haters
Have you ever seen individuals or brands react completely inappropriately to a negative sitaution online? Well, I did. Here’s how to NOT do what I did and save your own ass.

8. Making the most of LinkedIn
Tips for getting everything you can out of LinkedIn.

9. Searching Twitter Smartly
Suggestions for smarter, creative searching on search.twitter.com

10. Using Twitter for Market Research
A few ways you can use Twitter for competitive insight.

What’s your favorite BeingCheryl post?

BONUS: Blogworthy awesome things from the past year: Meeting Nine Inch Nails, Launching “Fast Friends,” going to the inauguration, doing a voiceover for an international campaign, guest DJ’ing on CD101, hilarious karaoke caption contest