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siliconANGLE editor Mark Hopkins: Managing the online sphere

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Oct 21, 2009

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A Q&A about developing online communities . . .

Mark Hopkins is editor of the tech blog siliconANGLE and the former editor of the social networking blog Mashable. He has built the online communities for Mashable, blipmedia, 5Tribe and Intel.

Q: From the time you were associate editor at Mashable to now running siliconANGLE, you’ve followed social media technologies very closely. How have tools like Twitter made bloggers’ voices so much more powerful?

A: Twitter has been a great equalizer for content producers, making individuals the ultimate wielders of the power, as opposed to the larger organizations. Twitter became a ‘thing’ for content producers during my tenure at Mashable. When I signed up for the service, I was the only guy at Mashable utilizing it, and quickly became the one with the largest social graph. I had caught a tweet from Marshall Kirkpatrick stating that the last few scoops he blogged had come from Twitter, so that made me start paying better attention to it.

Interacting with others and syndicating my Mashable and personal blog posts

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