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10 Twitter Users Share Why They Use Twitter

Nov. 20, 2009

As a follow-up to my December 2008 blog post describing Twitter in 14 ways, and countless articles since, I feel there is no better time than the present to revisit the question why people use the social media tool.
Why do you have a Twitter account? I realize this may be self-serving, but consider me curious. [...]

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How to Write Blog Content For Your Readers (or Why Metrics are So Important)

Nov. 18, 2009

Note: This blog post is graphic-intensive. If you can not see images below, you may want to visit the blog directly.

The most important aspect to consider when writing blog posts is you.
I’d be lying if I wrote anything different.
You.
When I write blog content, I keep of a mental log of who you are, what keeps [...]

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Why Unfriending is Important This Year

Nov. 17, 2009

You may not appreciate when someone unfriends you on a social networking site, but the action verb has a lexicographical importance to the New Oxford American Dictionary which announced unfriend as its 2009 Word of the Year.

From the press release:
“It has both currency and potential longevity,” notes Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary [...]

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Finish Her Sentence Anonymously

Nov. 15, 2009

You can see what Sarah Morgan wrote by clicking here.

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LinkedIn MySpace Facebook Twitter Time

Nov. 13, 2009

Amber Naslund researched social media job vacancies and, among her findings, wrote:
In my research, I saw several job descriptions (most, frankly) that focused heavily on how social media benefited or could impact the company and their aims to be better known. They were largely focused on tactics and tools, and few actually referenced anything from [...]

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From One to Two and Back to One

Nov. 6, 2009

Columns, I refer.

Why must your blog be designed with two or three columns? Everyone’s blog looks like that! I keep experimenting with a single-column look and I keep nixing and changing it. I think it’s time to keep the single view, don’t you?
I awoke this morning to a 2-column design at AriWriter. I will sleep [...]

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Reviewing Twitterville

Nov. 2, 2009

“Wherever you live, chances are you think your government could do a better job,” writes Shel Israel in the opening sentence of chapter 13 of Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods.
Shel explains the background to the book’s title, published earlier in 2009, in the introduction, some 200 pages earlier:
Twitterville connotes a [...]

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