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Top 20 iPhone Apps for Bloggers

ProBlogger

If PayPal is the official financial service of bloggers, Twitter is the official microblogging service. In fact, it’s not a microblogging service anymore. If you need to manage several blogs hosted on several blogging platforms, you definitely need this app. It has become an official communication medium for online geeks.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Often, the turning point for me on FF is when I post something and there’s no engagement, thereby reinforcing the thought that FriendFeed is a self-serving (good for FF, bad for us) platform that doesn’t ever benefit the content creator. I’m sure you’ve seen my discussions on that.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom. If your organization already uses Instant Messaging, microblogging offers the potential to turn those one-on-one conversations into group collaboration. Think of it like an IM platform where every IM you send is open to everyone else in the network.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Before rolling out ANY type of social media application, whether it’s blogs, or a wiki, or microblogging, make sure that you do an assessment of your user culture first. Yammer is a microblogging application similar to Twitter, only it’s focused on businesses. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating?

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

platform – hello.bah.com. Does your organization have an internal microblogging service (Twitter is most likely too public for most)? And more importantly, was it successful? Pre-Conference After receiving approval to move forward, we established our “home base&# – a wiki page on our Enterprise 2.0

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How to Be a Problogger on Tumblr

ProBlogger

When it comes to blogging, a number of platforms have come and gone. Recently, Posterous was acquired by Twitter, signifying that a shut-down of the platform was imminent. utilizing smart blogging and marketing techniques that work on any platform, and making your Tumblr blog more open to non-Tumblr users. Sound familiar?

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

and thank you, Tamar, for giving me a platform to reach more people in the social media sphere than i could have on my own. Around here, we see an amazing proliferation of very high-quality posters of sad-looking children. Reply dotlizard July 22, 2008 at 1:13 am thanks to everyone for your kind words.