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July 18th, 2010

How to Hide Farmville (and other Annoying Games) from Your Facebook News Feed

This should make Facebook a little more bearable for people who use it for business.

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June 21st, 2010

Five Retweet Abuses

Sure, it’s easy to retweet someone else’s tweet. But are you overdoing it?

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May 29th, 2010

Twitter Essential Training Now Online

2010 edition goes live.

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February 13th, 2010

Got a Keyboard? Use it.

A blog post should be more than just screenshots of what other people Tweeted.

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January 18th, 2010

How NOT to use Twitter for Marketing and Sales

An example of social network marketing #FAIL.

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November 30th, 2009

November 2009 Links

Links for the month of November.

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October 31st, 2009

October 2009 Links

Links for the month of October.

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October 16th, 2009

Twitter’s Report for Spam Feature

Block and report with one simple click.

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July 24th, 2009

Your Twitter Experience is What You Make It

An analysis of two kinds of Twitter accounts.

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June 17th, 2009

Why I Stopped Following You on Twitter

Breaking up is hard to do.

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May 31st, 2009

May 2009 Links

Links for the month of May.

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March 31st, 2009

March 2009 Links

Links for the month of March.

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March 16th, 2009

Five Tips for Composing a More Effective Social Networking Bio

Is yours saying what you really want to say?

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March 13th, 2009

Twitter Primer: @Reply vs. DM

Get ‘em straight! Use ‘em right!

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February 10th, 2009

Twitter Etiquette: What Do YOU Think?

Help me write a blog post about Twitter Etiquette.

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January 31st, 2009

January 2009 Links

Links for the month of January.

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January 4th, 2009

December 2008 Links

Links

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November 30th, 2008

November 2008 Links

November 2008 Links

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February 12th, 2008

Video Blogging with Viddler and WordPress, Part I

What’s this all about?

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January 13th, 2008

January 12 Links

Links worth following.

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August 2nd, 2007

Twit This

A service that makes it easy to post links on Twitter.

I recently found Twit This, a Web site that enables you to post any URL to Twitter as a tweet.

Here’s How It Works

When you browse to a Web page you want to share with your Twitter followers, you invoke Twit This.

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May 11th, 2007

Four Steps to Get the Most Out of Twitter

Some tips for taking the “yuk” out.

I first heard about Twitter a few months ago on either the MacBreak Weekly or TWiT (This Week in Tech) podcast. (Both highly recommended, by the way.) I immediately checked it out. At first, I thought it was kind of cool, but then I realized that

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