Category: Social Media

The Web’s New Transparency

A few days ago I emailed the owner of a forum I have participated in for 5 years and asked about his policy on changing member names. I was hoping I could change my member name to John_Lessnau from my anonymous member name. As I suspected, the forum does not allow member name changes and [...]

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Twitter – Time to Start Building Followers

So far I only have 39 44 followers built up over my first few weeks Twitter. Of course, this blog is brand new and I don’t have a herd of blog readers to ask for a follow on Twitter. So most of my current followers are people I have met at conventions and know online [...]

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Alltop and Truemors – Powered by Guy

Would these sites achieve success without Guy Kawasaki? Guy has such a large following, he can put up just about any site and hawk it to his 10,000K+ followers on Twitter and other social marketing avenues day after day and make it a success. Sites like AllTop and Truemors have been done many times over [...]

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My First Week On Twitter

For me, the jury is still out on Twitter. While there is the occasional nugget of information from industry insiders. Most ‘tweets’ are fairly inane (..just woke up) or spammy (…finished my latest e-book, check it out). The twitter game seems to be to get as many followers as possible and throw an occasional link [...]

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