Thanks to the wonders of Twitter, I came across this article over on ZDnet where the author talks about the top social media fails of 2009.  I don’t necessarily agree with everything that she says, but I don’t disagree with everything either.
I should mention, that the use of the word “fail” like that comes from a very successful site called “failblog.org” where they highlight things that have failed.
Here’s an example of something over on failblog.org:

see more Fail Blog
Back to my point, I think that overall the Zdnet article does a …

If you’re new to the social media scene, then you know that there are some terms that are thrown around by everyone as if everyone knows what those terms mean. Here’s a short list of terms and their definitions, mostly separated by the platform:
Myspace
Myspace was the original big social network, and a lot of the items on facebook got started on Myspace. I know friendster and others were first, but seriously Myspace was the first “BIG” social network. Having said that:

BulletinsThese are messages that you send out to all …

One of the neatest things about Twitter is that it is easy to automate many functions. One of the most misunderstood and misused functions on Twitter is the direct message.  There are third party services that let you automatically message people that sign up to follow you on Twitter, I do not believe that you should auto direct message people when they follow you.
Let me say, that I used to auto-message people when they followed me back in my early days on Twitter. I thought that a quick welcome message …

In case you don’t know, by default twitter allows you to follow up to 2000 people before limits start to kick in. Some of the limits are based on the number of followers that you have, and other limits are based on things like API calls and whatnot that only the uber-geeks among us understand.
Most people won’t care about the 2000 people follow limit since they have no interest in following more than that number anyway. Regardless, I think that a lot of people will want to know how …

Y’all know that saying right? Give a man a fish and you’ve fed him for the day, teach that same man how to fish and you’ve fed him for a lifetime.
That’s my philosophy when it comes to all things online and social media related. I believe that too many people are beholden to other people because they have not learned “how to fish” so to speak.
I would like the opportunity to teach you how to fish, and at the same time, I think that my own skills will …