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Size Matters To Those That Want Size

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

I was hoping I could get a better title than that but I wanted to also see what kind of Google search results that will provide with giggles late at night.  The reason I wanted to talk about size is because there seems to be a differing opinion as it relates to the size of [...]

Another Twitter During Conference Opinion

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  • Posted on December 20th, 2009 by User ImageJim Turner

As I continue to hear about problems with Twitter and conferences I think I will make this something I will be asking all of our speakers about for 2010. I am thinking that Twitter will not be anywhere near our stages unless of course the speaker wants this to be a part of their [...]

Women in the Blogosphere: More Than Mommy Bloggers

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  • Posted on December 15th, 2009 by User ImageDeb Ng

Back in my blogging heyday, various traffic seeking bloggers inevitably rolled out lists of the “Top Bloggers” for each particular year. Thrown in at the very bottom of these lists, almost as if added in as an afterthought, was the name of a woman or two.
Comments and blog posts ensued. “Where are the women?” they [...]

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Sponsored Conversations: Selling Out or Another Way to Make Money Blogging?

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  • Posted on October 25th, 2009 by User ImageDeb Ng

When I first began blogging five or six years ago, there were plenty of arguments over whether or not bloggers should use ads on their blogs. Those who did were considered sell outs. Then the “make money online craze” hit and everyone was posting ads on their blogs and all of a sudden they weren’t [...]

United Airlines Sucks!

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  • Posted on July 8th, 2009 by User ImageRick

So back on May 23′rd of this year I was flying home out of Schiphol Airport after two long weeks working two separate trade shows in Europe.  I arrived at the airport almost three hours early and was one of the first in line to check in.
The check in crew showed up all smiles laughing [...]

Want More Twitter Followers? Pay For Them!

We’re living in a world where the more people you’re connected to on the internet, the more successful you are most likely going to be when it comes to your business enterprises.  The problem for a lot of people, however, is that they just aren’t connected to that many people, and getting more of those [...]

Army Lifts Social Media Ban

Chalk this one up as a victory for the brave men and women around the country that are helping to keep our country completely safe and sound.  Up until this point, due to security concerns and privacy worries by ol’ Uncle Sam, the U.S. Army had blocked the vast majority of all social media and [...]

Facebook as Terrorist Recruiting Tool?

Could this be a big ‘uh oh’ for Facebook?  For now it doesn’t look like it, but this recent bout of news does raise some questions as to exactly how Facebook is going to begin addressing some of the more questionable uses of their social networking site.
We all know they were quick to address and [...]

Facebook Gives Two Holocaust Denial Groups The Boot

Looks like pressure finally got to Facebook and they did what I am sure the vast majority of people will agree, was the right thing.  Freedom of speech in this country is beyond vital.  The ability to say what we feel, when we feel it without censorship or controlling is one of the things that [...]

Did Ashton Kutcher Exploit The Children Of Africa?

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  • Posted on April 20th, 2009 by User ImageRick

While searching for other blog posts about the recent hubub over the hypothetical possibility of Oprah Keynoting BlogWorld this year, I came across another post that stunned me and brought a whole new perspective to Kutcher’s million Twitter follower quest that I hadn’t considered before.
Blogger Clement Nthambazale Nyirenda has a post accusing Kutcher of exploiting [...]