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What Happens in Vegas… (Or How to Ruin a Reputation With Just One.

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To manage our online reputation, we must ask ourselves one question before we click that button: “Am I OK with my mom, my boss, my professors and CNN seeing this?&# Don’t send, update, share, tweet or publish. Reputation is reputation after all, however it is packaged. Deleting – not so easy.

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Ready for Yet Another Social Platform? Here Comes Google Buzz

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You will be able to connect with Twitter, but only to pull in content, not to publish tweets (at least, not yet). TechCrunch has also published a pos t on why Buzz may gain traction in ways Wave has not yet been able to achieve. As of now, it will integrate will services including Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, and Google Reader.

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New to Social Media? Step 1: Be a Consumer | Almost Savvy

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Have you taken the time to be a consumer of content first before being a publisher? This meshes with #1 on my list of 11 Ways to Thrive on Twitter. With a strategy in place, execution is more focused and more likely to succeed. Is there a downside to taking such an approach?

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

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yet powerful platform to build a brand, control one’s online reputation?and I want it to help market the novels, which I should be doing more to get in front of agents and publishers. Who doesn’t have a blog these days? and engage with those interested in what you have to offer. What is your take on blogs?

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I Don't Care Where. You. Are. Right. Now. | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

If it works for you, your friends and audience to publish your check-ins to multiple sites, I hope you won’t take it personally if I’m not around to keep tabs on where you’re having lunch today. The website you reference is but one of many reasons I don’t publish every detail of my whereabouts online.

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The Re-Branding of Me: Website Under Construction | Almost Savvy

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Though it is not yet finished, I asked Kimberly to publish the site as is to give those of you interested in how a site comes together a chance to peek behind the curtain. She’s a creative genius, in addition to having wicked coding skills. What you see here is a work in progress.

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Dear Ex-Facebook Friend… | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

I, too, was recently challenged publicly [on Twitter] as the result of “one Tweet&# stating my opinion about TechCrunch’s publishing of the Twitter docs. Kudos for taking a negative situation and transforming it into something beneficial for yourself and others.

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