From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Bintro, zAgile, Zemanta – semantic web meetup

April 29, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Last week I attended the Semantic Web meetup after a long while of not attending. Going to meetups after a long day/week is not easy, dragging oneself through trains, searching for a specific place, but it definitely paid-out, in fact, the meetup was so great I really regretted no attending these in [...]

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Why Twitter and are there any Lawyers there at all?!

April 19, 2009

Those of you who know me know I have one word integrated into every sentence I say in the past 6 months or so (other than ‘Connected’ ): it’s Twitter. I write, read and speak about it, praise it, discuss it. Many people from the legal industry who know me ask: Why do you keep [...]

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Profile picture – should you have just one or multiple?

April 15, 2009

Doug Cornelius has raised an interesting point in his comment to my post about online profile: do you use one picture of yourself throughout all networks or are you expected/allowed to use diverse ones and update them on a frequent basis? Chris Brogan is known for his ever changing profile picture, and it has become, [...]

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Why is your profile picture so important?

April 13, 2009

Profile pictures in social and professional networks always provoke much discussion and debate: why do you need them? Are they risky? Which should you use (formal? informal? Representative and abstract?) Why is having a profile picture so important? First and foremost, your profile picture stands for your online identity, of who you are. The basic [...]

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awlahmy, alinwlahmy, awl2009, alinlin – what’s my Twitter name?

April 1, 2009

An interesting post by JD Lasica calls for people to claim their ‘real twitter account name’, e.g. instead of using variation of their name like, twitter.com/JSmith (@JSmith), you should have your full name there, twitter.com/johnsmith (@johnsmith), so it is easier to find and helps with authenticity. This idea to me makes sense, and could really [...]

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