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The Medium Is/Is Not The Message

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Fax machines were still nascent and hardly being used by publishers, journalists and companies. Pitching stories to be published was a brutal affair of rejection. Pitching a story back then was the social equivalent to being ghosted these days. My content could reach everyone online, by simply publishing it. That's fine.

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Eight steps to thriving on information overload

Buzz Marketing for Technology

d post an article I originally published 10 years ago in the October 1997 issue of Company Director magazine. I wonder if the popularity of this post is a sign that few people are actually in control of their use of social media. In fact, I think that social media is creating a generation of social outcasts.

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The information processing view of humanity

Buzz Marketing for Technology

At the same time, the extraordinary rise of social media means that the thoughts arising from millions of conversations are now available to the world at large. Certainly the new array of social media and Web 2.0 Which means that those who use social media tools well are strongly advantaged. June 2003 (1).

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Dear Blog Comment Spammer: I Think Your Comment Spam Tool is Broken

Bill Hartzer

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Blog Comment Spammer Leaves Comment. Forgets to Spin the Content.

Bill Hartzer

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Why Google Loves WordPress | Bare Feet Blog

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I often get asked which blogging platform I recommend, combined with “what about Blogger, Squarespace, Movable Type, etc?&# Now is a good time to sign up to receive new articles by email as soon as they are published or subscribe to our RSS feed. I am a “WordPress hands-down, no question, no doubts&# kind of person.

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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

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We’ve also got Kelly Exeter, who’s brilliant on writing, editing, also design, self-publishing. When I first published it, I didn’t look like this. The web became a much more interactive space and this is the beginnings of social media. We’ve got mainstream media producing amazing amounts of content.

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