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#Selfie Is The Word Of The Year

Firebelly

Oxford found that “selfie” was first used in 2002 on an Australian online forum but gained popularity in 2012 after becoming an integral part of social media platforms like Instagram. One of my very few attempts to take a selfie with my best friend Allie.

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Finding Readers Week: Corinne Talks Commenting, Engagement, and Are Forums Right For Your Blog?

ProBlogger

Corinne introduced forums at the beginning of the year and has seen that engagement increase sharply. Point of difference: Adding forums for your readers. Top 3 benefits to creating the forums: Great for traffic – people will click my profile and then go to my blog as well as click links I leave on the forum.

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A Community of Practice Is More Than a Website

Social Media Strategery

Unfortunately, social media has also given rise to zombie communities filled with content on blogs, forums, and wikis, but which lack any actual human interaction. What are you building? Snyder.

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10 Things I Wish I Had Known About Blogging When I First Began

ProBlogger

I’ve learned some pretty huge lessons along the way, and back when I started in 2002 there were quite a few things I wish I’d known! In today’s episode , I’m going to talk about some important lessons, and identify ten things that I wish that I had known when I first started blogging in 2002.

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RSS Reading Habits

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Participating in chat rooms or forums (remember???this this was done in 2002, prior to Facebook and the explosive growth of blogs, etc.). stay up-to-date??? or be entertained. Transacting ???Using Using the web to execute a transaction, such as banking or shopping. Communicating ???Participating Housekeeping ???Using

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Digital Literacy, Pragmatism and the Social Construction of Reality at dougbelshaw.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Or, to put it more formally, in the words of Berger & Luckmann (2002:49-50), What is taken for granted as knowledge in the society comes to be coextensive with the knowable, or at any rate provides the framework within which anything not yet known will come to be known in the future. Technology. Productivity. Everything Else. Talk to me!

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The information processing view of humanity

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Executive Forum ) for his own sake, making his blog a repository for personal reference, by the by creating something that others can find useful. December 2002 (2). November 2002 (1). October 2002 (9). November 2003 (2). October 2003 (1). July 2003 (1). June 2003 (1). May 2003 (2). April 2003 (2). March 2003 (1).

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