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Why Popular Science Killed Their Comments And The Huffington Post Should Too

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This past week was also the ten year anniversary of my blog, Six Pixels of Separation. Prior to the mass popularization of social media, there was an interesting functionality for blogs called the trackback. This would inform the original blog post that you have added to the discourse in another location. Or whatever?

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The Small Wins From Social Media

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This type of scenario is being played out across the social media channels in getting followers and retweets on Twitter , views, subscribers and positive reviews on YouTube , receiving comments and sharing of blog posts and beyond. It''s not just about social media marketing, either.

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Time Spent Is The New Impression

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Did they like the content so much that they would be willing to acknowledge it to their social graph (a "like" or a favorite)? . Did they like it so much that they went off and created their own piece of content inspired by it (a blog post, a podcast, a video on YouTube )? content curation. social graph.

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Brain Crack, Innovation, Leadership | Bare Feet Blog

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What new developments are a vanity project and what ends up as a wonderfully curated featured list. It’s the brevity, lack of necessity to “friend&# and the fact that it’s free for everyone that defines the quality of the social graph I can develop within it. The primary goal is no longer making money.

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Will You Abandon Your Friends to Seek Real Relevance

Convince & Convert

You have to keep up your blog. But number two, part of the onus of improving your own online experience, your own digital experience, is becoming a very critical curator of those experiences through relationships, through information that you share and consume. That was the most challenging part of writing this book. Jay: Absolutely.

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The Liberation Of Comments And The New Storytelling

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People leaving comments on a Blog has changed. The primary reason that people leave a comment on a Blog is to add their perspective. Many will point to comments as the key differentiator between what is a Blog and what would otherwise be known as an article. If it hasn't changed all that much, it's going to.

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38+ Cool Social Media and Web Tools and Reviews

Webbiquity SMM

A free app for Apple iOS devices that enables users to manage multiple social media accounts at once. A users can post to his/her Facebook wall, send a Tweet, share photos to Flickr and TwitPic, upload a video to YouTube, post a blog entry and manage other social accounts all from a single login and tool.

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