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The Strangest Argument I’ve Ever Had On Social Media

Waxing UnLyrical

The points he tweeted back basically amounted to just one: social media cannot be used to sell anything, so why deceive people with tips to help them do that? I’m not a social media evangelist, and I’m very cautious about how I engage in this space. Photo credit: havi , courtesy Flickr, CC 2.0.

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The Social Media Vibe Theory

Waxing UnLyrical

It’s not enough to pick one of the “personalities” under which social media users have been classified and run with that, because a) no one’s purely one or the other, and b) you can’t differentiate yourself by working a label. Image: amonja via Flickr, CC 2.0. But your vibe lives independently of those categories.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2005: Flickr. Do I want to treat Flickr as a serious base for showcasing my photographic works? It started in 2002. From Singapore I’ve watched the social media world develop its identity and characteristics. I arrived here in 2002, as the debris from the dot com crash was still being cleared away.

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What To Do When The Box Flips Inside Out

Waxing UnLyrical

Now just about everyone on social media wants to make money. To some, social media marketing is as foreign a landscape as the dark side of the moon. Image: id-iom via Flickr, C C 2.0. Facebook used to be the only company making money off Facebook (go ahead and laugh). What happened?

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The Serious Goings-On Behind The Social Networking Scene

Waxing UnLyrical

The vibe I got via our communications on social media was just right. Being social on social media provides you the freedom to choose what level of “social” you want to give to each of the thousands of people you run into on any platform. Photo credit: Nicola Corboy , courtesy Flickr, CC 2.0.

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What Information Is Not

Waxing UnLyrical

Otherwise, I’m doing the social media equivalent of watching National Geographic. Photo credit: Gerald Hng , courtesy of Flickr, CC 2.o. Based in Maryland with roots in New York, she’s been crafting effective marketing copy as a writer and polishing many forms of prose as an editor since 2002. I heard it.

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The Danger Of Doing Business Vicariously

Waxing UnLyrical

Photo credit: Simon , courtesy Flickr, CC 2.0. Based in Maryland with roots in New York, she’s been crafting effective marketing copy as a writer and polishing many forms of prose as an editor since 2002. But that’s not all that’s out there to keep you busy. You should, too.

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