Koka Sexton

MAY 8, 2009

The four founders were all team members at Google and helped to launch such products as Google Maps, Adsense, GMail and Google Groups. Once a dormant social site that I used only for aggregating my rss feeds has now become a full fledged community. Set it and forget it. Looks like things are changing though.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 30, 2009

Dear Ma.gnolia Community Members or Visitor, Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 31st, Ma.gnolia experienced every web service’s worst nightmare: data corruption and loss. Most importantly, I apologize to all of you who have made Ma.gnolia a home for your bookmarks and community.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It’s not quite journalism, it’s full of opinion and bloggers live by their own rules even as the best of them do their utmost to adhere to FTC guidelines. Do a Google search for Bryce Keane, one of WUL’s regular guest-bloggers. It helps you understand the medium. Blogging is a strange beast. Read All About It!

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The Way of the Web

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Libraries – knowledge and community hub? Traditionally a geographical community has a few hubs – the church and the pub being most noticeable in the UK (look at any old village and count which buildings were a place of religion or drinking, even if they’re now converted to homes!). Is Amazon reading this blog?

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

link] – This Contra Costa Times is my local newspaper and though they have a pretty low level community platform on their website someone thought far enough ahead to set up a Twitter profile. This is because CNN has mastered the art of sending updates about any news that comes across their desk.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

link] – This Contra Costa Times is my local newspaper and though they have a pretty low level community platform on their website someone thought far enough ahead to set up a Twitter profile. This is because CNN has mastered the art of sending updates about any news that comes across their desk.

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

This caused such an outcry by the Facebook community that several groups formed almost immediately calling for Facebook to change their terms of service back to normal. This didn’t seem to be enough for the community and the people kept complaining. One of the reasons we updated our terms was to make this more clear.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 25, 2009

After a quick Google search we found a site using the Twitter API that can calculate your Twitter Ratio in just a few seconds. You might be a thought leader in your community. If you have 10,000 people following you and you only follow 10 of them, you must have some in demand Tweets. A ratio of 2.0 You like to hear yourself talk.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 25, 2009

After a quick Google search we found a site using the Twitter API that can calculate your Twitter Ratio in just a few seconds. You might be a thought leader in your community. If you have 10,000 people following you and you only follow 10 of them, you must have some in demand Tweets. A ratio of 2.0 You like to hear yourself talk.

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Koka Sexton

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Depending on how many other people are writing in your community, you have the chance of pissing off a few people. It’s completely focused on the city and community. You know your city well enough to do a Google blog search for people places and things in your area. Starting a local blog is not for the faint of heart.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We help people in need share their “epic&# true stories in innovative, creative and profitable ways to help them acquire the financial resources they need to create positive “change&# in their communities. I understand that many people think “We need schools and money for things in America.&#.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

But I don’t need that to get the blog becoming the central hub for the community, which is the plan. I’m comfortable with WordPress as a platform (That’s what this blog is too) but I don’t know all the backend stuff that could really make it shine. Once someone starts talking.htaccess I’m lost.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. Get the Community Involved One of the best things I did when I started a local blog was reach out to local businesses that I frequented. town and city. I do this for free.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. There are MANY other sites like these and I have gotten great results from a lot of them. These are the two places I got my start. town and city.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. Get the Community Involved One of the best things I did when I started a local blog was reach out to local businesses that I frequented. town and city. I do this for free.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 8, 2009

Once you start getting more involved with the Twitter you will see that it is really a community of people that just want to give constant updates to people that are following them. Twitter Etiquette As any community will tell you, there are unspoken rules of etiquette that you should follow. Tired of copying and pasting endless URLs?

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

But I don’t need that to get the blog becoming the central hub for the community, which is the plan. I’m comfortable with WordPress as a platform (That’s what this blog is too) but I don’t know all the backend stuff that could really make it shine. Once someone starts talking.htaccess I’m lost.

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Koka Sexton

JULY 27, 2009

He said my background would be something interesting that the community may want to read about. The writer André Gensburger who is also the co-publisher for the paper first entertained the idea of talking with me a few months ago. The topic of the article was to talk about how I have adjusted post Iraq.

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The Way of the Web

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

It’s not to say it’s impossible – by building and engaging a community, taking direct paid advertising, or occasionally finding an actually lucrative affiliate deal, bloggers can still build a mini media empire. Why you shouldn’t pay: Having a budget to spend on paying bloggers to post carries some risks for both parties.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 1, 2008

While writing that post, I started getting more involved with the StumbleUpon community and started looking through other peoples profiles for great sites I had never come across. Much love for the StumbleUpon community Many people on StumbleUpon do not blog anywhere else and use StumbleUpon as their primary micro blog of sorts.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 26, 2007

Here are some of my favorite social Archives Categories Blogroll October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 January 2010 December 2009 October 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 Notice : wp_list_cats is deprecated since version 2.1!

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Concerts, Movies and Shows Many communities offer a wide variety of free entertainment through local park districts and organizations. List it on Freecycle , a nonprofit community group that encourages users to give away old items instead of throwing them away. It’s on my speed dial as a token of my love for Google.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Using MyBlogLog To Expand Your Community Quality vs. Quantity in Social Networking Why I Twitter (And Why You Should Too) The 4 Elements of Getting Videos to go Viral Using Social Media to Meet People How to Run a Successful Competition on Your Blog Defenition of Viral Marketing and Success Stories. Mihaela Lica’s last blog post.

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Concerts, Movies and Shows Many communities offer a wide variety of free entertainment through local park districts and organizations. List it on Freecycle , a nonprofit community group that encourages users to give away old items instead of throwing them away. It’s on my speed dial as a token of my love for Google.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 26, 2009

It’s also been grabbing all the headlines – in the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , Wired , and myriad others. It’s also been grabbing all the headlines – in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and myriad others. tags: government2.0) [.] link] Ari Herzog Agreed. Heroes At the Gov 2.0

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Koka Sexton

MAY 22, 2008

Blacksmith2 of the StumbleUpon community discovered my post and added it to his favorites. So I found a geeky picture to add to the post and put it up. I specifically put the post in a low level category of my site thinking it was not worth any attention at all. I was wrong. Then the shit storm started brewing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Examples include: Instant Domain Search (with its AJAX glory) Website Monitoring Tests Think about it this way: MyBlogLog has a widget , statistics, and a community. I have blogrolled you. I will be using these to promote my journal. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Koka Sexton

AUGUST 17, 2010

This was great to saturate our community with news and promotions. Their functionality to schedule tweets was extremely easy and you have the ability to send one message out through multiple twitter profiles at once. Well…maybe the process is easier than actually getting a job offer but Koka Sexton dot Com: [.]

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Koka Sexton

AUGUST 17, 2010

This was great to saturate our community with news and promotions. Their functionality to schedule tweets was extremely easy and you have the ability to send one message out through multiple twitter profiles at once. Well…maybe the process is easier than actually getting a job offer but Koka Sexton dot Com: [.]

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

In universities, VLEs often act as secure gateways to digital indexes and research journals. Hence, they prefer the more limited view of PLEs as a configurable extension to a VLE, especially when they continue to see themselves as the monopoly technology service providers for their learning community (eg online enrolment, email addresses).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 22, 2008

For readers of my subscription-based journal, The Information Advisor , it serves as an online supplement to the March 2007 Knowledge Management Supplement article â??Social re more likely to find other people tagging the same page, and surface others with similar interests because of the size of the user community. Google Search.

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I did some of the homework before officially starting and it was mainly about jumping with both feet and starting to engage with the community. Getting up to speed on the social media needs of the company hasn’t been difficult. We are focusing on the big 3 social media channels; Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn.

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Koka Sexton

MARCH 24, 2009

Created by Federated Media, in partnership with Microsoft, ExecTweets is a platform that aggregates the tweets of top business execs and empowers the community to surface the most insightful, business-related tweets. ExecTweets is a resource to help you find and follow the top business executives on Twitter.

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Koka Sexton

MARCH 24, 2009

Created by Federated Media, in partnership with Microsoft, ExecTweets is a platform that aggregates the tweets of top business execs and empowers the community to surface the most insightful, business-related tweets. ExecTweets is a resource to help you find and follow the top business executives on Twitter.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 29, 2010

So I searched PRWeb ’s press release archive for a selection of overused terms, buzzwords and marketing speak using a “site:prweb.com” search on Google, for example: I opted for Google over PRWeb’s internal search because internal search results are not typically very good. I chose PRWeb over PR Newswire, Business Wire, etc.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

Help Us Build It.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

Help Us Build It.

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