Interesting story from Silicon Angle, about the Washington Posts’s new policy for social media use by staffers.
Post journalists must refrain from writing, tweeting or posting anything—including photographs or video—that could be perceived as reflecting political, racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility. This same caution [...]

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I have a bit of an email/Twitter compulsion. And by “a bit” I mean I wake up in the middle of the night to check the BlackBerry on my nightstand. The BlackBerry is only 8 months old, and the chrome around the trackball is already chipping off from overuse.
It’s a sickness, I admit it.
When I’m [...]

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Given the boom/bust, feast/famine world of freelancing, there can be periods of downtime, especially right now while the economy turns to rubble around us. So what does one savvy freelancer do with that downtime?
I schmooze. I hobnob. I gadfly. I charm many local business people into taking me for many lunches (a cost saver in [...]

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Yesterday I was asked to participate in someone’s thesis on social networking. Two weeks ago I had a two hour phone conversation with a young blogger, helping her find her voice and her writing niche. A few weeks before that, I was helping a company set up their blog site.
I’m a consultant. People come to [...]

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Do you blog? Hang out on Facebook or MySpace? Does anyone actually know you’re a writer?? Time to get LinkedIn!
The idea of social networking has been around as long as the Internet has, with chat rooms and BBS. But now it is becoming more streamlined. Facebook helps you find friends you haven’t seen since childhood, [...]

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