I’ve been using social media tools for several years. I typically engage through Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, this website, and also discussion forums. It wasn’t until recently I’ve come across a social media measurement service that gauges your overall influence across the social media landscape. The service is called Klout (www.klout.com). I won’t go into a full review of
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Another day, another crappy user experience on Twitter. Sadly, failures have become de rigueur which leads me to longing for another option. Don’t get me wrong. I’m still having a love affair with Twitter, but the bloom is off the rose. The new car smell has faded. The moon has lost its honey. Gone are the gut-wrenching, mind-bending panic attacks.
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Do you view following as a commitment and unfollowing like a broken promise — or worse — a divorce? Do you watch your follower count and immediately unfollow anyone who has unfollowed you as if to say, “AHA! You don’t deserve to have me as a follower when you don’t follow me!” What does following mean to you? Most
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What do geeks do when their Twitterverse implodes? It’s no longer breaking news that there was a series of DDOS attacks on the internet last week. I didn’t notice it so much on Facebook because (1) I’m not on there as much and (2) Facebook often seems slow and bloated to me. But my beloved Twitter? Oh yes, I knew
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Dear Twitter – This Sucks Twitter is an immeasurably valuable tool for networking that has become an incredible lifeline for me and for our business. Or it was. Today, Biz Stone in a Twitter Blog post, informed the Twitterverse of a “small settings change“. We’ve updated the Notices section of Settings to better reflect how folks are using Twitter
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It’s called Social Networking I know a lot of people don’t get it. They don’t get the Web. They don’t get the blogosphere. And most especially, they don’t get Twitter. Numerous people in my so-called “real” life have been led to believe that I lost the last bit of sanity I possessed because I dared to espouse the virtues and wonders of
