In other news, Dell computers revealed that it is seeking out a typewriter company to take over. According to this Mashable.com report, Bloomberg has purchased BusinessWeek for a sum of money that is somewhere between $2 million to $5 million. That’s right M-I-L-L-I-O-N D-O-L-L-A-R-S. As in the joke from the Austin Powers movies. Did...
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Social Media consultants (including me) like to tell you all the rules that apply to using services like Twitter. But the fact is that without innovation from the grassroots users, many of the features that are standard on Twitter now would never have existed. Take RT (retweeting) for instance. This was a practice started...
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By Lon S. Cohen True geeks were up to count down the seconds until Facebook opened up its newest feature on Friday night. The ability to grab a vanity URL for your Facebook profile became available at midnight on Friday, June 12th. Curiously, Facebook never instituted the standard of allowing users to sign up...
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I wrote a piece on the best people I follow on Twitter for Mashable.com. These people are smart, resourceful and informative. I give a list of my favorite people and why I follow them. Never before in history has it been easier to glean from the knowledge of others who will give it away...
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My latest article on The 7 Ways to Approach Twitter is on Mashable.com. In this article I offer an overview of the different strategies people use to communicate on Twitter, even if it having no strategy at all. There are plenty of strategies for approaching Twitter. It’s getting more complex each day, but in...
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