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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

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If you’re relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you’re limiting your potential for impact and influence. Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter. Guy Kawasaki.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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It’s been replaced by Facebook, Twitter and online collaboration. And a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal didn’t say so either. Tags: Social Media e-mail Facebook MySpace social media myths Twitter Wall Street Journal e mail twitter. Everyone knows e-mail is dead. Well, not exactly.

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Live Tweeting Requires Ethical and Legal Considerations

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I have a degree in journalism so I appreciate the need for journalists to incorporate information from third parties in their works. Another interesting issue journalists are contending with is how Fair Use applies to information published on Twitter. Multiple tweets could be used to convey an article, or a Twitter-based webcast.

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How the Economy and Social Media Are Ruining PR

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You know, “we send out a press release and the Wall Street Journal prints it above the fold on the front page, which is much cheaper than buying display advertising in the Journal.&# “Why pay a PR agency when we can tweet on our own Twitter account and post to our own blog?&#. Social media is now playing that role.

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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

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Any serious adult user of Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace knows these sites are both social and anti-social. Note: It was pointed out to me after I published this that the Wall Street Journal piece was written not by Walt Mossberg, but by Katherine Boehret, and edited by Mossberg.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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The blogosphere has been buzzing recently in response to a Wall Street Journal article declaring that e-mail is dead. Unfortunately, the Journal didn’t say e-mail was dead, but reported on Oct. Had I sent it to her via Twitter, it would have required 60 separate messages. E-Mail Is Dead. But its reign is over.”.

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Microworkers Paid Less Than a Penny for Writing

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In addition to facilitating this process, ShortTask often has questionable tasks like paying for positive product reviews and blog comments, Diggs, Twitter followers , etc. Tags: Business Communications Ethics Journalism Amazon Article Slash Mechanical Turk Microworking minimum wage piecework ShortTask writers writing.

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