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Cleaning My Social House: Part 2

14. January 2010

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When I wrote Cleaning My Social House, I just wanted to focus on how clearing out some clutter in your social networks can make them much more efficient in the short term.  A comment from Lauren Fisher brought another great point to light. She said, I think this helps us to remember that social networks [...]

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UpYourSocial Is With COCO

13. January 2010

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I’ve been a huge fan of Conan for many years now, and I am not the only one. Lots of people around the Internet are joining the I’m With COCO campaign. This campaign was started when Mike Mitchell created the image you see to the left. This image is starting to pop up all over [...]

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Sacrificing in the Name of Social Media

12. January 2010

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Recently, I had a conversation with @thenewsrookie about blogging and social media.  We talked about a lot of things, then somewhere in the conversation I talked about all the things I had quit doing in order to continue blogging and playing around in the space of social media.  His response to this was “sacrificing in [...]

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My Zappos Experience

29. December 2009

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Zappos has built a great reputation as being all about customer service.  Until recently, I had only heard of their reputation, because I’ve never bought anything from them before.  Based on all the good things I’d heard, I decided to use them to order my next pair of shoes.  Once the shoes arrived, my biggest [...]

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Cleaning Up My Social House

2. December 2009

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Today, I did a little sping winter cleaning (Who does winter cleaning?) of some of my social media profiles.  I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked, but I did make it a little easier to navigate around my profiles. The cleaning was needed badly, because I kept adding recommended friends, friends [...]

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Acknowledging Readers is Powerful

28. October 2009

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Lately, I’ve been looking around the Problogger forums to find useful information about blogging and a few new blogging friends.  The good news is that I’ve found both and more.  Part of the more is some great new blogs.  One of these blogs is RobsWebTips. The content is good, but that isn’t what makes the [...]

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Links Build Love

8. October 2009

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That’s a very Kumbaya headline, I know.  But the truth of it is that linking to other people whether on Twitter or on your blog will get you noticed.  Why is that the case?  Well, do you check to see who is linking to your or your blog?  I know I do.  I like to [...]

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