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Facebook talks like a pirate. Movember and online community rituals

Laurel Papworth

Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or a blog or forum, always a great idea to agree in advance on viral spiked activities. Change your Twitter avatar to be Santa Claus. I photoshop my avatar to have a moustache -. - First, Changing Facebook to Pirate Speak. How do I change my language settings? so do thousands of others.

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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

ProBlogger

Having said those things, I want to talk about these nine things that have helped me to accelerate the growth of my blogs over the years, things I wish I knew back in 2002 when I started out and I hope that that will help you in your journey as well. I started blogging in 2002. Gradually over time, I began to deepen my avatars.

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213: Blogging and Content Marketing: 10 Things To Know

ProBlogger

For me, it all started in 2002 with an email from a friend. Okay, It was 2002 and I got this email and it had four words in it and a link. Some people would call them personas or avatars today. I know some people like personas and avatars, other people don’t. Whether you’ve got an avatar or not, understand these things.

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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

ProBlogger

” Now, I started blogging in 2002. It was a mind-blowing question to be asked because everything has changed in my blogging since 2002 except for the fact that a blog is pretty much the same thing. There’s lots of things have changed since 2002. The way we’ve been in 2002 is changing.

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Social Media "Pioneers" Tell Why

Diva Marketing Blog

In fact, some companies thought we were a bit crazed to encourage brands to embrace concepts like transparency, authenticity, honesty and the most radical of all … customer-to-brand, peer-to-peer conversations in public forums. Neville Hobson - Neville Hobson.com @jangles Began blogging 2002(UK) .

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Add an avatar and a bio at the minimum. And well, they say that social media is the new link exchange, so instead of asking for an old-fashioned link (which might have worked in 2002), consider using a more viable strategy for this modern time period. There is no reason to make a personal request. Not humanizing your profile.

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