I have been running workshops on Social Networking, talking primarily about Twitter Blogs and Facebook. Once of the questions I am asked is which of these are most important, what should they focus on first. As usual, there is no definitive answer, but it becomes more about : What you want to achieve from social […]
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History has always been written by the victors. In the distant past this was often because no survivors of the losing side were left alive to tell. These days the advent of broadcast technology has allowed for both sides to get their stories to the masses. When the fallout of the Iranian elections was happening,
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For something a little different, my current fave Muse have a new album coming out on the 14th of September, what is interesting from a internet / technology point of view is the changing face of promotion of music. With all of the wailing from the record companies about piracy and copyright infringement, the ways
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As a web professional, I try to look at and investigate new ideas, trends, and concepts that appear in the industry. Not only because they may work for me, but also so I can give advice on these topics to my clients, coming from some if not much experience. Take as an example my Facebook
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Twitter is becoming clearer. Now I have TweetDeck, Twitter becomes a much better experience, I now know when someone I am following has posted something up, and it even allows me to reply from within TweetDeck. Now the thing with TweetDeck, is that it is a program you install on your PC, think of it
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Doubleday, the publisher of Dan Brown\’s new book has announced that a series of puzzles will be used to promote the new book. \”codes, cryptic trivia, puzzles, secret history, maps, aphorisms\” These will be made available through Twitter and Facebook. It is an example of the growing influence social media is having on the entertainment
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In the world of Twitter, ReTweets are becoming the defacto method of recommending content. While you can create your own Tweets and use a URL shortener like Bit.ly (my favourite) to point someone to a web page you like, ReTweets are the simple way to do it. However, the page you want to retweet needs
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No one knows if \”Persian Kiwi\” or PK has any connections to New Zealand, however, it has definitely captured the attention of some media in New Zealand. What it doe though is highlight how Twitter has become a key issue in Iran. With the Iranian Government stopping the access to social networking sites like Twitter
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Mathieu Bastareaud was attacked on the weekend after his tram has lost to the All Blacks on Saturday night. After leaving a venue to return to the team hotel he was attacked and suffered a suspected broken eye socket and needed four stitches to his face. What makes this interesting, is that since there appear
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TinyURL.com, bit.ly and the new su.pr from Stumbleupon are all tools you can use for shortening URL\’s, especially useful for Twitter and other micro blogging sites due to their limitation on each message. However, I had never thought of the possible implications of shortened URL\’s, primarily the ability to hide any references to bad sites
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