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How Darren Rowse Liberated My Facebook Account
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 [...]
America’s Tweethearts Story In Vanity Fair Is Good For New Media
While attending Affiliate Summit West earlier this week Joe Morin asked me if I had read the new Vanity Fair article America’s Tweethearts or Social Media Insider’s reaction to it. I hadn’t yet but Joe sent me a link to both and after reading them I of course have some comments.
I liked both the article [...]
Is Twitter Stealing Community from Blogs?
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 [...]
Is Foursquare The New Twitter?
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- Posted on January 13th, 2010 by
Jim 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 [...]
Three Days in Vegas – BlogWorld & New Media Expo 2010 When and Where
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- Posted on January 10th, 2010 by
Jim Turner
I am seeing a huge number of searches now that we are in the new year all looking for Blog World 2010. People are searching I suppose to find out the details since we are about 10 months away from the event. The other issue is probably related to the the fact that 150,000 people [...]
Size Matters To Those That Want Size
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- Posted on January 8th, 2010 by
Jim 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 [...]
Mashable Gets A Face Lift
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- Posted on January 4th, 2010 by
Jim Turner
Today as I was going through some Twitter links that I open in tabs on Firefox, I came across a post that someone had sent me written on Mashable. I immediately saw a difference in the way the blog looked and read and the overall scheme. I thought I was reading it through a weird [...]
Another Twitter During Conference Opinion
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- Posted on December 20th, 2009 by
Jim 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 [...]
Congratulations To Blog World Keynote Speaker Laura Fitton on Funding of oneforty.
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- Posted on December 18th, 2009 by
Jim Turner
It was announced today that Laura Fitton, or as we all know her more appropriately as @pistachio, and her company oneforty.com received funding in the amount of $1.6M. Those of you that attended BlogWorld & New Media Expo this year know that Laura was our opening keynote address for the Social Media Business Summit which [...]
BlogWorld Ticket Giveaway for Twitter Followers
***Update 10.11.09 2:23pm**
Sorry for the delay in announcing yesterday’s winner guys. Just busy with last minute preparations for the show.
Our second winner for the Retweet contest is @BlueWorkhorse
Congrats!
And the third and final winner is……
@BrokeAssBride
Congratulations. See you in Vegas!
Thank you to everyone who participated.
***Update 10.9.09 10:19 pm***
and our first winner is @bphuettner.
Congratulations Brenda! DM me to [...]
