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Twitter Best Practice: follow everyone as courtesy. hang-on. no, actually don’t.

October 10, 2009

Image via Wikipedia 6 months ago, the Best Practice around following and getting followers on Twitter was that you must follow those who follow you as a courtesy as well as interest in others, and that the goal is to achieve as many followers as possible. It was days when Conversational web took a new [...]

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Twitter is just pointless babble and Facebook ruins your friendships – our lives reflected in Social Media

August 31, 2009

Image via CrunchBase To Continue the discussion and Ideas that developed in my post from 2 days ago about ‘Facebook as the Freindship killer app’, I just read Danah Boyd’s post about Twitter as an aggregator of ‘pointless babble’. The marvelous Boyd makes the point that sites such as Twitter and Facebook are our online [...]

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Social Media: the friendship killer app

August 30, 2009

Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr @econwriter5 has shared a great article today on Twitter: WSJ‘s ‘How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships’. This article has been on my mind all day. Media Panics have been a natural part of Media and Culture evolution: Waltz will curropt the youth, Radio will degregade our values, TV will [...]

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Rules of Twitter Following

July 22, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Looking for interesting posts around Twitter Policies and Guidelines in preparation for Connected Social Media Policy week, I ran into this interesting guidelines around the rules of following are posted on http://restaurantcoachingsolutions.com/rcs-university/rcs-social-media-policy-twitter/ By @JeffreySummers. [Update: these are suggested rules for not following someone]. The suggested rules include: do not have a website. [...]

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Social Networking For Lawyers Webinar

June 27, 2009

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Twitter Basics Webinar

June 27, 2009

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How to build a robust profile on Social/Professional networking sites?

February 15, 2009

So you have only started setting up your profile… and now all these questions bubble up: what photo should you use (if any at all!)? How about contact details? How do you present yourself in a way that not only benefits you, but protects you as well? If you have already set up your profile [...]

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The travelers guide to Twitterverse – Part 2 So… here we are

February 1, 2009

So you started using the Deck, you check your feeds a few times a week/day, and starting to look for better, cooler ways to engage in Twitterverse? This is a very initial list that I have started. I am calling all you Tweeple who used Twitter and have tips to share, to add them to [...]

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The travelers guide to Twitterverse – Part 1 we’ve only just begun….

February 1, 2009

So the new media darling, Twitter, is all everybody is talking about, and you either really don’t understand what they are all excited about, or leading a conversation about @Scobleizer’s latest tweet. If it’s the latter, you can either skip this post or post a few tips for the beginner tweeter from your experience. Like [...]

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CES Day 5: The personal and professional

January 12, 2009

Yesterday was CES’s final day. I have physically landed on the east coast, but my heart and mind are still on CES. Here are a few bits to conclude the last day: Many people ask and wonder if and how to create the separation between their professional and personal networks. There are many tools built [...]

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