Your Turn: Comments and Free Books! Courtesy of Dale Carnegie Training to celebrate the release of their new iPhone app , I have 10 free copies of ‘ How to Win Friends and Influence Peopl e ‘ to give away as follows: Five will go to the first 5 people who add relevant comments. The remaining 5 will go to those with the best comments (to be selected by members of the AlmostSavvy fan page on Facebook ). Comments posted by April 13 will be considered. Additional comments powered by BackType Click ‘Like’ to join us on Facebook! Thanks! MORE >>

When you see something of interest, reply with a comment or opinion about their tweet (by clicking the arrow to the right of their tweet). Lots of great tips in the comments, too!). Tell me in the comments here, was this useful? An easy way to start is to follow people you’re interested in and then reply and comment on their tweets. Reply uberVU - social comments says: March 17, 2010 at 7:35 pm Social comments and analytics for this post… This post was mentioned on Twitter by TheCraigFisher: 11 Tips To Thrive on Twitter – Almost Savvy [link]. MORE >>

Will you like or comment if you see this message? Rather than summarize huge amount of feedback and suggestions for best practices I received, here is a small sampling of the comments: Clearly, I hit a nerve and many people have very strong feelings about: How they’d like their friends to consider them when deciding how to use the different networking sites. I already know most of you will be in one of two camps. Some of you will immediately feel my pain and totally get what I’m talking about. That said, bring on the controversy. Let’s get ready to rumble! Maybe. MORE >>

Additional comments powered by BackType Click ‘Like’ to join us on Facebook! “How can I get more people to follow me?&# “Should I have a public or a protected account?&# “What else should I know about that I don’t know enough about to ask?&# Twitter is growing quickly, at the rate of 5,000-10,000 new accounts per day, according to a new report from Hubspot called State of the Twittersphere.? There has got to be something special going on here. Do you know what it is and, more importantly, are you a part of it? There is no one best way to learn. MORE >>

Good uses of your inside voice: - Commenting on content posted by someone else. If you grew up with a mother anything like mine, many of your childhood memories include being shushed and reminded to use your inside voice. We had three voices, but the one we heard the most about was our inside voice. Heaven forbid we might say something too loudly and the neighbors would hear! Little did I know these voices would come in handy when thinking about Twitter. had a recent conversation with Laura of EzraTech on Twitter about the practice of sending DMs (direct messages) to new followers. MORE >>