Social Media

Is Social Media Replacing Blogging? Will Micro-Blogging Destroy Blogs?

November 8, 2011 Social Media
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It is always great to have the opportunity to share your knowledge with others, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to do so at BlogWorld. As a panelist on the topic of Promoting Your Blog in the Age of Social Media, I dealt with many questions on promoting a corporate blog and [...]

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Falling Back Into Old Bad Habits: Blogging vs. Social Networking

August 20, 2011 Social Media

The eternal debate over moving your social identity from blogging platforms to other social media like social networks will never die (for the foreseeable future, at least), but I for one believe that you should never cede complete control of your personal brand to the innumerable social networks. A personal or business blog, hosted on [...]

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How Your Virtual Assistant Can Ruin Your Online Reputation

August 14, 2011 Social Media

One of the troubling trends that I’ve seen more and more of recently, is that people are outsourcing aspects of their social profile to Virtual Assistants (VAs) who are clearly unqualified for the task. I see the average Joe, large speakers and other personalities who participate online and use a VA to do so on [...]

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Reputation & Crisis Management Rockstars: Where to Turn When Things Get Crazy

March 10, 2010 Commentary

Brett Borders – Online Reputation Management I just finished responding to a bunch of interview questions about community building from a good friend, and social media rockstar, Brett Borders. If you haven’t had the opportunity to check out his site before, I strongly recommend going through each and every post, and of course, when the [...]

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A New Form of Twitter Spam: ReTweet Stories With Your URL

September 4, 2009 Social Media

Over the past week or two I’ve noticed a new form of what I would deem Twitter SPAM. I’m not talking about all the crappy auto-responder messages or the direct tweets that try to get you to visit a link. This new form of spam on Twitter is more devious. Examples: As you can see [...]

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Twitter Fail: Site & API Down AGAIN!

August 25, 2009 Social Media

It looks like our good friend, Twitter.com is down once again. Facebook has also been giving me problems for a few days, so my guess is that there is another attack happening . . . of course that is just speculation! Where’s the Fail Whale when you need him?

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The Twitter Epiphany: Why post on Twitter when you can post on your blog?

May 1, 2009 Blogging

I’ll admit that I’ve become accustomed to using Twitter (and other social media) throughout my day to share interesting information, links, articles, etc. I’ve been doing it for some time now, but I came to an epiphany yesterday that is going to change my behavior. I wasn’t sharing my every move like the guy in [...]

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