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Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category

The most famous blog post ever

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Last month's Inc. Magazine had a story on Evan Williams, the creator of Twitter.  The story was interesting on its own, but one of the things I enjoyed the most was the reference to an early blog post by Williams called "Ten Rules for Web Startups."

Business Week talks Twitter

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

A recent Business Week article discusses the Twitter. Lots of interesting links. One of them was Ellen Petry Leanse's blog (from the comments); contains loads of Twitter-tips and advice.

Chris Brogan talks about LinkedIn

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Social guru Chris Brogan wrote an article about how he uses LinkedIn which I thought was quite interesting. He advises being generous in connecting but restrained in recommending, which is consistent with my thoughts about best practices. The only point of difference I have with his article is that he ...

Reputation Management

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I've read a few interesting posts recently about reputation management - a fancy phrase for "pushing the bad stuff off the first page of Google." Andy Beal (Marketing Pilgrim) here - and here too Site Creations.com Monitor This - a reputation management OPML generator; import the result into your feed reader The big boys ...

The Golden Rules of Twitter

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Tweet unto others as you would have others tweet unto you. It is more blessed to follow than to be followed. These are my rules and I'm sticking to them. The motivation for number two was this article by the irrepressible Robert Scoble.

GetElastic on the importance of catablogging

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Got a cart? You need a blog. Heck, I think you should be twittering too, but that's just me.

CaRP - software to display RSS feeds on your web page

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

I'm a big fan of CaRP from GeckoTribe - I use it to display posts from this blog on That Software Guy's Follow Me page. I just updated to the latest version - sweet!

Why Tweet?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

In the words of business blogger Dave Taylor, My Twitter account is  http://Twitter.com/DaveTaylor  and if you look at my page, you'll see I have over 700 people who pay attention to what I'm sending out. That means that when I write a blog post now, I promptly twitter about the new ...

Twitter 101

Friday, April 4th, 2008

I have recently started using Twitter, and I'm enjoying learning about leveraging as an idea-generating tool. Question: if you Tweet for business, is it T-Commece? :)

Why you REALLY NEED to moderate reviews on your cart

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Because if you don't, you'll get reviews like this one. Hat tip to software guy Andrew Duffy for finding this and discussing it in his insightful blog post, Amazon – a case study in abusive social networking.

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