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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.

January 18th, 2010

How NOT to use Twitter for Marketing and Sales

An example of social network marketing #FAIL.

November 30th, 2009

November 2009 Links

Links for the month of November.

October 31st, 2009

October 2009 Links

Links for the month of October.

October 16th, 2009

Twitter’s Report for Spam Feature

Block and report with one simple click.

July 24th, 2009

Your Twitter Experience is What You Make It

An analysis of two kinds of Twitter accounts.

June 17th, 2009

Why I Stopped Following You on Twitter

Breaking up is hard to do.

May 31st, 2009

May 2009 Links

Links for the month of May.

March 31st, 2009

March 2009 Links

Links for the month of March.

March 16th, 2009

Five Tips for Composing a More Effective Social Networking Bio

Is yours saying what you really want to say?

March 13th, 2009

Twitter Primer: @Reply vs. DM

Get ‘em straight! Use ‘em right!

February 10th, 2009

Twitter Etiquette: What Do YOU Think?

Help me write a blog post about Twitter Etiquette.

January 31st, 2009

January 2009 Links

Links for the month of January.

January 4th, 2009

December 2008 Links

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November 30th, 2008

November 2008 Links

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February 12th, 2008

Video Blogging with Viddler and WordPress, Part I

What’s this all about?

January 13th, 2008

January 12 Links

Links worth following.

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. (I’ll explain how to

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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 it was

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