Submitted by The Puck
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I’m constantly amazed at the number of articles written about how to gain more followers on Twitter. And the number of people who spend considerable portions of their day following this advice by trolling for extra followers and trying to boost their "numbers."Because like the current real estate mess that hedged on the err (Read More)
: I don't know that I would call it a ponzi scheme - it's just the typical land grab. Some of it pans out, some not. Some audience sticks, some doesn't. There's nothing new - which is, I guess the point of the article, so I agree to a point. Nice perspective!
Submitted by The Puck
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One of the tools of the SEO trade has apparently been axed by Flickr. It seems like every SEO conference I have attended since Flickr went live included recommendations that Flickr photo submissions be treated much like HTML pages. The title of the photo, description, tags and any links in the description text work just lik (Read More)
Submitted by Jack68:
Future of Social Media roundupBy internetworldSo, after all the build-up, the Future of Social Media finally took place yesterday (does this mean it’s STILL the Future of Social Media?!) with an extremely healthy crowd of over 250 delegates in attendance. And what treats they had in store, as the international speaker line- (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
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A little storm-in-a-teacup erupted online today around a press release issued by Matt Bacak. The release was almost comically self-promotional, evidenced by the headline:"The Powerful Promoter Promotes Himself Straight to the Top of Twitter - Matt Bacak Achieves Another Social Networking Milestone"Quoting the release:"Anyo (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
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A trend I'm seeing develop on Twitter is the use of automation for such things as auto-follows, auto-responses (which often include a pitch...visit my blog at www...) and scheduled tweets.I think this is a terrible trend that should be avoided at all costs. To me, Twitter is the most personal and conversational of all s (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
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Photo by NimagesDRNo. Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, a question asked by the Give and Take blog. YES! Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. Some holy grail metric (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
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Health information social networking site DailyStrength has been acquired by HSW International, the digital content company which is a spinoff from HowStuffWorks.com (which later got acquired by Discovery Communications). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.DailyStrength raised a seed and a first round, both from Redpoint (Read More)