Ok, Twitter has been around a while now, and we all pretty much have the hang of it. There are $5 Twitter Tricks, TwiTips and more out there to help you navigate Twitter and gain followers.
Most of the tricks you learn aren’t that helpful, except for making numbers go up. Your new “followers” are not [...]

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Bloggers love comments. I’m no different. They’re like a badge of success. It you get elevently-trillion comments on a post, you are awesome. If you get none, you are a loser who should commit suicide immediately and do the world a favor.
Or something along those lines.
Well, despite my best efforts, I’m still alive, so I [...]

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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 sometimes feel like I’m spreading myself a little thin. I recently became the National Republican Examiner, plus I have about four other blogs I update pretty regularly, including my “home blog”. This one has been sadly neglected, I’m afraid! I also spend way too much time on Twitter – turns out I have a [...]

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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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