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December 22, 2008 By

Twannabe – Who do You Follow?

Twannabe – Who do You Follow?

There are several follower finders for Twitter available. Mr. Tweet has received a lot of attention but it also has its critics mainly because there is no justification for why you should follow the individuals that are recommended. A newer tool – Twannabe comes closer to making more personal recommendations. Basically you enter your account [...]

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December 18, 2008 By

Social Media Evangelists – The Special Forces of New Media

2008 has seen the rise of the term “Social Media” appearing in a variety of places that it hasn’t appeared before, most notably in the list of skills claimed by individuals, whether as in house evangelists or external consultants. So what does it take to be a Social Media Evangelist? Special Forces Training This might [...]

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December 16, 2008 By

Social Media Firestarter

Social Media Firestarter

Any High School student can tell you the three elements needed for fire: Air, Heat, Fuel. If you remove the source of any one of these three elements the fire goes out. Add sufficient sources of all three and you have a firestorm. What does this have to do with Social Media? I think that [...]

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December 13, 2008 By

Seven Things You Didn’t Know About Me

Image via Wikipedia This post was motivated by Terry Morawski who Tagged me. Tagging is a fun blogging event to get people behind the blogs to open up a bit and put the human face to their blogs. The rules are fairly straightforward: The rules(courtesy of Vedo): Link your original tagger(s) and list these rules [...]

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December 11, 2008 By

HOW TO:Connect LinkedIn to Twitter

HOW TO:Connect LinkedIn to Twitter

Someone recently expressed the hope that some day there would be a way to connect LinkedIn contacts to Twitter.  Actually what they asked was if there was an application that did this. I set to thinking about this and after a few hours figured out the solution – ok when you see the solution you [...]

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December 10, 2008 By

Is Social Media the latest lifeline in a downturn economy?

In times of economic uncertainty people instinctively look for some way in which to add additional value to their position, either within an organization or within the broader business environment. The Rise of The ‘Expert’ In 2007/2008 SEO & SEM became attached to almost any position that vaguely involves some form of online activity. Marketers, [...]

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December 7, 2008 By

Mommy blogs:Why you should read them

Do you read Mommy blogs? No? Perhaps you think they are only for other Mommy’s or that they have no relevance to your business or communication strategy – think again. The first Mommy blog I started reading was TheDailyblonde, written by Cheryl Phillips. I honestly can’t remember how I found her but I was an [...]

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December 4, 2008 By

Money Makers on Twitter

Money Makers on Twitter

Over the past few weeks there has been much discussion of how 3rd party companies are attempting to monetize the Twitter world. Twitter themselves have so far avoided doing this, though rumors abound about how they might decide to charge for various parts of the service. The first two attempts to monetize Twitter have come [...]

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