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 [...]
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Top 9 Social Media Fails of 2009, so far
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The lingo dance
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 [...]
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How To Twitter: To Auto Direct Message, Or Not Auto Direct Message
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 [...]
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How to Use Twitter: How to Unfollow People That Don't Follow You
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. [...]
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Teach a man to fish
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 [...]
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