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Social Network Mass Unfollowing is an Empty Gesture

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Recently a couple of people told me they were thinking about unfollowing all of their social network friends and starting over. Sometimes it’s done as a “grand gesture&# to convey to the world that the quality of social network relationships matters more than the quantity. Jason Calacanis also did it.

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Five Things Jesus Looks for in a Blog Post

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People write what they write to draw readers, because they participate in affiliate advertising and get paid for clicks, because they are attention whores who get personal validation and an adrenaline rush from increasing blog traffic, or both. So a certain style of titling blog posts and articles has evolved.

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Five Easy Steps to Social Media Karma

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It's a tough world out there, and you, as a regular user of social media and social networks, have the chance, every day, to make a difference in someone's life. Here are just five suggestions for how to do that: Leave a comment on a friend's blog. Commenter identity systems have.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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The concept that e-mail is in decline, rather than dead, is too complex for many bloggers, and the technique of declaring things “dead&# is a tried and true blog traffic generator. and went on to cite statistics that show both e-mail and social networking use on the increase. The CEO Needs to Blog.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks. Location-based applications like Foursquare and Brightkite will not be the darlings of social media as some predict, but will instead turn into features and dissolve into general social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

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Why Every Brand Should Have a YouTube Channel

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Companies and brands create video content wherever you look, distribute it on its blogs and social media. This is one of the most significant advantages of using YouTube since most content posted on some other social network will last between a couple of hours and a couple of days. YouTube is a hub for video content.

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Judge Confirms: You Have No Privacy. Get Over It.

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All of the social networking leaders have stumbled. Yet how many blog posts tell us how to adjust our Facebook privacy settings? Facebook has made one privacy screw-up after another. Google compromised user information with the launch of Buzz. They are all repeat offenders with little possibility of rehabilitation.

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