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How Darren Rowse Liberated My Facebook Account

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  • Posted on February 24th, 2010 by User ImageDeb Ng

I was reluctant to embrace Facebook and fought it for several years. I had Twitter and that was enough of a time suck for me. The problem with Twitter was that my family and personal friends weren’t really a part of it. So I joined Facebook to be keep in touch.
That was all she wrote.
Thanks [...]

Using Twitter Lists for Conferences

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  • Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Chris

One of the cool features that Twitter has added recently is their list facility. Unlike some of the changes, like the horrible Retweet implementation, this addition was almost universally applauded. Funnily enough I only saw it in action at the last Blog World.
It might seem like a minor piece of functionality, especially when the core [...]

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Is Twitter Stealing Community from Blogs?

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  • Posted on January 20th, 2010 by User ImageDeb Ng

So after my post about the Social Media Police yesterday, an interesting discussion ensued. In fact, it was probably one of the better blog post discussions of my career. Except it didn’t take place here, it took place on Twitter. That in itself isn’t a terrible thing, but as a blogger, it’s sort of my [...]

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 [...]

What Would You Do to Follow or Be Followed on Twitter?

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  • Posted on January 9th, 2010 by User ImageDeb Ng

I have a bone to pick. Something’s been sticking in my craw now for a couple of weeks and I need to get it off my chest. Lately, many of the folks I try to follow on Twitter expect me to jump through hoops for the privilege.
That’s right, people who use Twitter validators, I’m talking [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]