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Venture into the world of social media with news, commentary, and reviews, from social media maven, Muhammad Saleem.
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conversations about social media - friday, may 30, 2008
here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. how to improve your presence on the social web are we social or anti-social? the ultimate yahoo pipes creation list reflections on flock, the social browser friendfeed and noise filtering what is friendfeed? is social media …
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note to digg: use redirects
when digg released their new comment system about 2 weeks ago they also made an update to their url structures to bring them in line with a previous update where they had implemented a universal taxonomy. The universal taxonomy allows you to submit any type of content (news, pictures, videos) to any …
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conversations about social media - thursday, may 29, 2008
here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. which social media site are you most active on and why? flock - the mozilla-powered social browser twitter will die, heres why friendfeed rooms are like forums 2.0 how to run a blog from within a friendfeed room friendfeed …
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conversations about social media - wednesday, may 28, 2008
here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. facebook to open source platform friend connect and the end of the fragmentation era microsoft jumping into social bookmarking old media needs to get over its control issues if you like what you’re seeing, drop by the ro …
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conversations about social media - tuesday, may 27, 2008
here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. economics of new media: pay to play or free? the best way to get noticed on the social web how to manage your time across social sites how fast is social video growing? the shareaholic firefox add-on in twitters scoble prob …
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conversations about social media - monday, may 26, 2008
here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. what social media podcasts should you be listening to? why is friendfeed more popular than jaiku comments wordpress plugin twitters business model newspapers missing the benefit of social media social networks sway may be u …
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conversations about social media - sunday, may 25, 2008
here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. twittermania: 140+ more twitter tools! digsby = im + email + social networks twitter blaming issues on 3rd party api based tools blog me up! how to find friendfeed rooms with google web 2.0 and the hype factor if you l …
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conversations about social media - saturday, may 24, 2008
heres a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. keep your eyes on friendfeed: it may be the google of social networks twitter at the crossroads the dream of one online identity what will become of delicious? the impact of rooms on friendfeed engagement understandably …
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do you want to talk about social media?
rss definitely its place on my computer and in my workflow, but have you ever wanted an incredibly easy way to share your musings and get feedback on them? how about easily receive other peoples thoughts and discuss them live? and finally, the ability to aggregate all your activity across the social …
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guest post at read/writeweb - knewsroom: a look at the latest social news site
i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb on what couldve been the future of the social news space. the way we create, interact with, and share information on the web is continuously changing, and at a very rapid pace. the end goal, most would argue, is the create a medium that completely democrati …
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guest post at read/writeweb: the decline and fall of quality on digg
i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb on how the content promotion algorithm is making the quality on the front page of digg suffer. note: this isnt meant as an attack on any user and his or her submissions. all the users mentioned and displayed on the graphs are my friends and i respect their …
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guest post at search engine land: the elevator pitch is dead. introducing the twitpitch
i’ve written a post on search engine land on the future of your companys pitch. the landscape of corporate public relations is changing fast. first the press release died and we told you how to write a press release for the social media audience. now the elevator pitch is dead and heres how to ada …
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’social media and simplicity’ - part 10 of 10
part 10 in my 10-part series on ’social media and simplicity’ is up. so many new services are launched everyday that you can hardly keep up with all of them without completely losing sight of your actual goals. at the same time, it is hard to ignore these services and not feel as if you’re out of th …
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’social media and simplicity’ - part 9 of 10
part 9 in my 10-part series on ’social media and simplicity’ is up. your mistakes and your failures are what force you to strive to better yourself everyday, and nothing is more valuable than that. head on over to freelance switch to simplify your social media workflow today. Technorati Tags: blogg …
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’social media and simplicity’ - part 8 of 10
part 8 in my 10-part series on ’social media and simplicity’ is up. trust is one of the most important elements of any relationship. whether it be the relationship between a writer and her audience, a consultant and his client, or an individual and his fellow community members, without trust, the sy …
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is the ‘vote button’ robust enough?
before we discuss the button, here are the positive and negative voting options on the 4 main social news sites: digg allows people to either ‘digg’ the story or bury it as duplicate story, spam, wrong topic, inaccurate and ok, this is lame, propeller allows users to either vote on a story or ’sink’ …
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’social media and simplicity’ - part 7 of 10
part 7 in my 10-part series on ’social media and simplicity’ is up. not everyone has to like what you have to say. not even most people have to like what you say. if you can get enough people to love you and hate you enough to be interested in what you have to say and respond to it, you’ve accomplis …
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how to make twitter ‘people search’ actually useful
note: follow me on twitter. twitter launched an updated version of their people search earlier today, but unfortunately its not very useful in the absence of the following features: 1 - more sorting options - by default, it seems that the results are largely randomly ordered. right now im seeing peo …
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guest post at search engine land: why mixx hasn’t gotten the following it deserves - yet
i’ve written a post on search engine land on the past, present, and future of mixx. mixx, a social media submission site, is a newcomer on the scene, so it understandably will take a while for it to catch up with older sites like digg, propeller, reddit, and stumbleupon. that said, this article look …
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’social media and simplicity’ - part 6 of 10
part 6 in my 10-part series on ’social media and simplicity’ is up. based on the previously discussed rules, you should by now have a fairly good idea of what tools you should be using. while each of these tools (social bookmarking, networking, etc) ultimately help you accomplish your goals of incre …
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