January 28th, 2010

Mine is 17.
Your magical retweet number is the amount of characters you need to leave at the end of your tweet in order to get retweeted. It will be different based on your Twitter name. Here’s how I came up with the formula for the magical retweet number:
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Tags: Communications, Retweet, Social Media, Social Networking, Tips, Twitter
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January 27th, 2010

Taptu is a mobile search company based out of the UK. They recently contacted me to redesign their blog. Their goal was to integrate the blog with their overall branding and incorporate the various social media tools used by the company. Some of the features of the new blog are:
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Tags: Blog, Blogging, Design, Online, Portfolio, Social Media, Social Networking, Taptu, Twitter, Web, Website, Websites, WordPress
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September 16th, 2009

Hopefully you went out and got yourself a Gravatar after reading the last post. Now we can move on to Social Networks. There are literally thousands of social networking services out there, so this can’t be a full-blown review of all of them — or any for that matter. What this post will do is show you the main types of social networking sites that are out there, and give some recommendations on how to use them.
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Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Online, Social Networking, Social Networks, Tools, Tutorials, Twitter
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September 13th, 2009

There are many people that I talk with that are a little overwhelmed at the massive social universe on the web. Many would love to start digging in, but don’t know where to start. This is part one of a five post series I entitle “Get A Life (Online)”. During the course of this series you will learn how to begin to build your social presence online.
Today’s lesson will be show you how to quickly join the online conversation, and show you how to do it with style.
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Tags: Avatars, Commenting, Comments, Gravatars, Online, Social Networking, Tutorials
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