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Garrison Keillor On: When everyone’s a writer, no one is

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Interesting piece in the Baltimore Sun by Garrison Keillor on the death of publishing and intellectualism. Keillor takes on the self-publishing movement (as might any author of a “real&# book): “And if you want to write, you just write and publish yourself. No need to ask permission, just open a website. No problem.

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Social Media Isn’t Conversation, It’s Publication

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None of this applies to the so-called online conversation: Anything you publish online could potentially be visible to millions of people. If you publish a tweet via Twitter, even if you delete it, some search engines maintain cache, a kind of memory, and will retain the information contained in the tweet.

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My Brief List of 54 Twitter Rules (Did I Miss Any?)

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A formal RT is not required for widely published mainstream items that everyone has probably already seen. Get the sender’s permission before publishing DM content on the public timeline. Don’t publish tweets like “Must. This was originally published as My Brief List of 53 Twitter Rules. Don’t send auto-DMs.

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Live Tweeting Requires Ethical and Legal Considerations

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But have you ever wondered whether it’s “OK” to copy and publish someone else’s words and ideas? My publisher generally allows me to grant permission to people who request the right to reproduce content from my book as long as the material constitutes less than 10% of the book.

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Network World: SocialCorp “Must-Read” Social Media Book

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This morning’s Network World offers a list (also published in Computerworld ) of five “must-read&# social media marketing books and suggests it’s “time to get smart with these 5 essential books.&# I’m very pleased my book, SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate , is on the list, and Computerworld writer Todd R.

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Harmless Twitter Prank or Malicious Act?

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People may not realize that every tweet is visible across the web the instant it’s published. I hope this is someone’s idea of a joke. If it’s for real, I hope Twitter shuts it down soon. Even if a tweet is deleted, it might still be visible in Twitter search and elsewhere.

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Six Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Based on the comments the piece received, I’ve updated it and Talent Zoo published it this morning. About a month ago, I wrote about my five social media predictions for 2010.