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The Social Media Pitfall of Assumptive Collaboration

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The first was instead of creating “a website&# we decided to create it in WordPress so that we would have the latitude to “turn on&# commenting for starters. I had suggested Worpress and a specific WordPress developer.

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Leverage Multi-Social Media Platforms to Tell Stories

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The advent of open source blogging platforms like a Drupal or a WordPress, and the creativity that Youtube has allowed, have given users the ability to tell these rich verdant stories of their lives, our lives, and the myriad ways in which they touch us and we connect with them. Rich stories.

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Social May Artificially Validate Motivation and Intent But…

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You know about Google’s algorithm, you understand how to optimize for search, you know that you will be using WordPress because of it’s ability to add plugins and content on the fly. You’re a marketer, you’re tasked to sell something online.

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Should Everything be Free Online?

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Does Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Youtube, Tumblr, WordPress, Posterous, Typepad, Flickr and Evernote amongst others, charge to use their platforms at an entry level? It’s actually been gasoline on an open flame.

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The Problem with the Social Web

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I’m generalizing blogs, but if you insist, I could go with WordPress, Typepad and Blogger. Those are your so called starting points in social and then everything else sorta falls into lockstep behind them. The point is this. Right now we are stuck in the Me too phase of social.

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Protecting Children from Social Media

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Create a blog on WordPress. We are, and even more importantly they are, in the digital age. They can: Text with their phone. Online Chat via AIM. Create video on YouTube. Comment on YouTube. Comment on any blog anywhere. Create a song. Create a network via Ning. Upload music and comment on the music. Upload an audio podcast. Tweet on Twitter.

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10 more social media sites, links and posts you might have missed this week

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Convert PSD’s to WordPress with Divine, though I have yet to play around with it. When I tweeted about this my tweet essentially said that my faith in the coolness and greatness of UGC has been restored. Watch this one year walk/beard grow time lapse and smile when it’s done. 9) This little site/tool certainly has potential.

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