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The Strangest Protest I Ever Took Part In

Waxing UnLyrical

I certainly support several causes, but usually it’s in the form of changing an avatar, helping out with tweets, etc. And even though my day itself wasn’t really impacted by Wikipedia, Reddit, etc. Now, I’m not your typical “striker” (though you’ve probably figured that out by now).

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Facebook talks like a pirate. Movember and online community rituals

Laurel Papworth

Change your Twitter avatar to be Santa Claus. I photoshop my avatar to have a moustache -. - Talk Like a Pirate Day from Wikipedia : International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD ) is a parodic holiday created in 1996 by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon , [1] U.S. ,

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Election 2010: GetUp Tony Abbott Mashup

Laurel Papworth

This comment was originally posted on Twitter Reply More from author wyane says: August 10, 2010 at 9:52 pm send this to your mum: RT @SilkCharm Election 2010: GetUp Tony Abbott Mashup [link] #ausvotes This comment was originally posted on Twitter Reply More from author Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Non di solo Google.

Buzz Marketing for Technology

IL GURU di GURU e wikipedia. I must confess that the educational examples of the use of avatar based virtual worlds for student learning have consistently d. Invece che cittadinanza, abitanza. Abitare (lat: habitus) la rete come. dimensione espressiva, cognitiva e psicologica della persona. Decisamente. intelligenzaconnettiva.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Social media Donations it works for Wikipedia. Maybe nice avatars or backgrounds created by budding entrepreneurs and facilitated by Twitter? Anyway, I thought I would play around with Twitter business models, given the current interest in premium sponsored tweets in Search (and later timeline) on Twitter (see Fastcompany for more) .

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The Social Media ProBook

Social Media Marketing

And yes, it can now be revealed that the avatar I've been using on Facebook was in fact tied to this project. There's also a Flickr set with everyone's avatar , in case you'd like to see them a little more closely. They were responsible for The Social Media Playbook , the Blog Tree , and a little cartoon about hashtags.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

All the other sites I network in are usually done under another persona, but I am a very good friend to have and very supportive of my friends even though I don’t know anything about most of them beyond the avatar. (My My ‘offline’ friends think I’m absolutely nuts for all the digging and stumbling I do.)

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