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Want to Meet My First 221 Twitter Friends?

Oct. 3, 2009

Short of sharing details of their lives, here’s the next best thing. Courtesy of the fine folks at Sxoop Technologies, I want to share with you the below Twitter Mosaic of the first 221 tweeps I am following, interacting with, and learning from.
Plus or minus a few additions and subtractions, these are educated and intellectual [...]

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Delivering the Loop of Government

Sep. 28, 2009

Launched by Department of Homeland Security employee and Young Government Leaders co-founder Steve Ressler in May 2008 as a hobby, GovLoop is the largest social networking site for the government community–whoever they are in role and wherever they are in geography.
Steve was smart. He recognized there was no single portal for government-centric individuals to share [...]

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Raking for Relationships

Aug. 4, 2009

Imagine you are outside with a rake–or a broom or a snow shovel or a hammer or a paint brush or any other workbench tool–and during your task, you strike up a conversation with a passer-by. Sally, the woman walking by, admired your front lawn flowers or architectural style of your porch–or she asked you [...]

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How Unfollowing May Increase Twitter Productivity

Jul. 27, 2009

If you’ve used Twitter long enough (and only you can define what “long enough” means), you’ve probably accumulated a hefty number of people and organizations you follow, right?
Unless if you have no life, you’re not staring at the incoming Twitter stream 24×7 but glance at it once in a while, whether 3-4 times a day [...]

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How to March in the #FollowFriday Twitter Parade

Jul. 27, 2009

I’m in 10,825th place in the #FollowFriday Twitter parade. Where are you in this mess of people?

Known to North American English speakers as a number sign or pound sign, the rest of the English speaking world calls the # sign a hash sign–which is preceded before certain words on Twitter for tracking purposes and identifying [...]

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Guest Post by Craig Kessler: Building Blocks of Me

Jul. 27, 2009

I don’t remember when I first found Ari’s blog. I recently moved from New York to the Washington, D.C. metro area to take a job helping with being the community manager of BudgetPulse, a free personal budgeting software web start-up that I knew nothing about and wanted to try something new within the internet [...]

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Is Twitter Stupid?

Jul. 24, 2009

Steve Huff of the American Society of Shitcanned Media Elites provides evidence that Twitter is stupid relating a trending series of Twitter messages last week about an Idaho girl abducted.
As people retweeted each other’s messages about an Amber Alert, Steve dug around the web and discovered that people were 1) retweeting a hoax; and 2) [...]

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