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National Delurking Day

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  • Posted on January 14th, 2010 by User ImageJim Turner

This is a bit of an old school blog day that we celebrate each year.  I think I first posted about this day about 4-5 years ago on my Daddy Blog.  What is Delurking Day you might ask?  In the blog world, many people read blogs and they watch and read comments all the while [...]

Is Foursquare The New Twitter?

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  • Posted on January 13th, 2010 by User ImageJim Turner

I have recently been using Foursquare on my Blackberry Storm smartphone.  I believe it is only in the beta version at this point for Blackberry users but anyone and nearly everyone with an iPhone are using it in our world, The application is still working a little clunky and not the best of user experience [...]

Tag You’re It! – Why Tagging Your Content Is Important

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  • Posted on January 10th, 2010 by User ImageJim Turner

If I have said it once I have said it a thousand times, “We live in a Google world.”  It is true, we don’t order Chinese food, find directions to the store, or stalk old girlfriends without using Google.  Being findable in this world is important if you are trying to be found.  Businesses especially [...]

Listening To Yourself

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  • Posted on January 8th, 2010 by User ImageJim Turner

I called 2009 the year of listening. Many reputation monitoring products made their hay in 2009 including Radian6, TechRigy, Flitrbox, and others.  They all have listening in common.  Being able to hear what is being said about you and your brand online is an important part of your listening campaign.  Not only should you be [...]

Help Us Help A Friend of BlogWorld Expo

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  • Posted on January 7th, 2010 by User ImageJim Turner

Tragedies occur every day and yesterday was no different except that one tragedy happened to a friend of ours. Tee Morris‘ wife passed away leaving Tee to be a single parent of a young daughter.
Tee was a speaker this year at BlogWorld & New Media Expo and was a great asset to our show. [...]

Building Online Communities: Are We Preaching to the Choir?

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  • Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by User ImageDeb Ng

A couple of weeks ago, I had a wonderful phone conversation with Mark Stelzner. Most of our discussion centered around the building and cultivating online communities. During our conversation, I suggested Mark, and anyone else who is building an online community, stop preaching to the choir.
You see, your community is already sold. They joined your [...]

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