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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Location-based applications like Foursquare and Brightkite will not be the darlings of social media as some predict, but will instead turn into features and dissolve into general social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Twitter recently rolled out its Geotagging capability on a limited basis. The conventional Web 1.0

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AUGUST 1, 2009

This gives Technorati its coveted “business model&# (everyone wants to be the Digg of Twitter), but it has numerous shortcomings in terms of presenting users with useful and interesting content. I have a great tool I use for following the top bloggers on Twitter. It’s called Twitter.

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MARCH 19, 2010

The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn’t Prove Influence on Twitter, on Read Write Web , cites a recent survey that found “Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to determining influence.&# The conclusion? “Retweet influence&# ? of others.&#

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

If you accept that customer experience is an important component of your brand, then everything posted about your company on Twitter, Facebook, a blog, or anywhere else online is a tiny part of your brand. If you’re a larger company, look into more sophisticated monitoring tools like BuzzLogic or Radian6.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Nick Sobrak-Seaton and I, and maybe a few surprise guests, will be on KSCO Santa Cruz AM radio this Saturday talking about social media as a marketing and communications tool for businesses and non-profits. Some of the topics we’re thinking about covering include: Developing your brand online. Video, such as YouTube and 12 Seconds.

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JULY 7, 2009

We’ve recently had an obsession with brevity in the form of Twitter, and shortened URLs for example. Yesterday afternoon I was having trouble with my Flip video, which I haven’t used in a long time, and complaining about it on Twitter. Social media just got faster.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

A friend of mine pointed out the Twitter account of Mirko Gosch , who is identified in his profile as “Translator, Level 2.&#. There have been all kinds of rumors about Twitter some day rolling out translation. According to its Twitter Translate page , the company is working on Italian , French , and German.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

But I’m not talking about social media gurus or mavens, or people with 20,000 followers on Twitter. McLuhan clearly foresaw the whole phenomenon of blogging, Twitter and Facebook status updates. And on Twitter, when someone clicks “Follow” in our profile, they are subscribing to our updates, not following us. Marshall McLuhan.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

When I first joined Twitter, I could not imagine what it would be like to have 10,000 followers, or as I prefer to describe it, to have 10,000 people subscribe to my updates. Twitter users have subscribers. When I signed up in June, 2007, Twitter, launched publicly in July, 2006, was less than a year old. Jesus had followers.

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MARCH 3, 2010

of a particular site or tool. Facebook offers status updates 420 characters in length, easy sharing of links, videos and images; commenting, tagging, a one-click “Like” button, blog networking to display personal and business blog updates on Facebook, connections to Twitter and other social networks, and so on.

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