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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

While the problem doesn’t solely lie on the shoulders of the developers who have been implementing the tools in these web applications, the responsibility for accurately monitoring true interest in submissions does. With no incentive to click through to the source, we’re ridding content creators of their hard-earned payoffs.

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Top 20 iPhone Apps for Bloggers

ProBlogger

You’ll find it’s an awesome tool for organizing your digital life. If PayPal is the official financial service of bloggers, Twitter is the official microblogging service. In fact, it’s not a microblogging service anymore. Okay, so your blog is not on WordPress? Then it must be using TypePad.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They hear about tools, put forth a miserable effort, and are either too busy or just lazy. A response came from a business owner who had the perfect answer on her website and directed the original poster to the website for a detailed reply. When I reviewed the poster’s account, I understood why.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

They issued memos to their users telling them that this collaborative tool that they’ve all been clamoring for is now available. 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. Then they waited.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

However, no matter how fantastic your material is, you’re not going to get far with any senior leader unless you have an understanding of these tools yourself. I won’t stop preaching that social media isn’t about the tools. I’m going to show them how the tools can make a difference in their day. The Whole. :

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

Does your organization have an internal microblogging service (Twitter is most likely too public for most)? Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? Development professional development prsa public relations public sector scary smcedu social media sports tools Twitter web 2.0 The Whole. :

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Major problems upgrading to Wordpress 2.9

The Way of the Web

140char.com will be evolving into more co-ordinated project to effectively cover microblogging across Twitter, Plurk, Tumblr, Posterous etc in a better way. Meanwhile my new project will launch soon and it’s aimed at a very specific area which it may be possible to monetise fairly effectively.