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The CS guide to avoiding Twitter (and any) Phishing Scams

Josh S Peters

Look at the url on this one: videos.dskjkiuw.com does that really look like a trustworthy URL with the garbled mess in the center? If it isn’t a shortened URL and contains a string of letters like that, chances are it’s no good. The links usually hold some clues as well.

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HOW TO: Build your own link shortener | Shuaism

Josh S Peters

This works as a subtle promotion tool for my blog and hopefully helps build value through everything I share (including my own content). Often times I do my blog reading in a block and I find a lot of good content I want to share, but I don’t want to overwhelm my followers with a huge blast of links.

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Getting Ready for LeWeb, Need Your Ideas

Almost Savvy

Blogging Between Hot Flashes New Tool Makes My Email Work Harder and Smarter Social Media Stats – It’s Raining Content! Firefox users, get the plugin ‘Long URL Please’ to show the complete URL before you click. Related articles which may interest you: What is Your Favorite “Real-time&# Tool?

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

If Your Story is Inconsistent, At Least Leverage Your Content Ouch. And perhaps most inexcusably, they haven’t even gotten a Facebook URL, and now facebook.com/timberwolves and facebook.com/twolves have been poached. But, it’s widely disparate content usage across social outposts that’s the real mystery.

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4 Steps to Drive Sales with a Social FAQ | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

The key is to create meaningful content that answers those questions, and propagate that content throughout the social Web, making a visit to your site unnecessary. I recommend starting with six, because it’s a meaningful amount of content and will address the tip of your question iceberg. Here’s how it works: 1.

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Blogs: I'll Show You Mine if You'll Show Me Yours

Almost Savvy

If you have a blog, here’s your chance to share a bit about it with an audience who may not know about it yet: What is the URL? Your content about leadership is extremely valuable. I’ve enjoyed your Marketing Safari blog for some time now and look forward to more great content. What is the primary topic?

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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The url reads montessorY instead of montessori. Caveat to membership and community participation is that one can spend so much time commenting and interacting that he/she doesn’t spend the time developing their own content (confession). Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. Again, super post!