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Liveblogging #Wordcamp SF 2009, Part 1

May 30, 2009

I am currently at Wordcamp in (not so) sunny San Francisco getting some pointers on good blogging practices and SEO. So far, some good tips:
From Tim Ferriss

Check out the plugin:
Cookies for Comments – Uses a cookie to keep spammers from directly commenting on your blog…keeps out automated commenting.
Change the term “Categories” to “Topics” to increase [...]

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How to Write For Video Games Part 1: World Plotting

May 23, 2009
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As some of my faithful readers from the old days at thePuckWrites may remember, I wrote the story, quests, and designed the classes for an upcoming online game called Ghostees!. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work, and since I know that many young creatives feel drawn to games (I know [...]

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Free eBook: Shua Peters’ and Jacob Morgan’s New “Social Media for Authors”

April 23, 2009

I love to plug great content that is overlooked, and Josh “Shua” Peters and Jacob Morgan have given us gold so that I, thePuck, can in turn pass on to you. Their ebook covers both of my pet subjects (writing and social media) and addresses issues like:

What is social media?
When Should I get Involved?
Why [...]

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How To Find New People On Twitter

April 22, 2009

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Well, as everyone has been noting, Twitter is now thoroughly mainstream. Once you have Oprah and her legions on a service, it has definitely left the exclusive realm of geeks and early adopters. Unlike some of my peers, I do not resent the presence and arrival of the celebrities and their virtual entourages. [...]

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Find Twitterers by Topic, Interests, Company, and Location with TwitterPacks

April 3, 2009

Well, it finally had to happen. Twitter is mainstream.
Twitter, and social media in general, have become mainstream. It gets talked about on international television, reported on in the mainstream media, and the service is enjoying the surge in users that all this attention has brought. But there remains a problem for all these new users…how [...]

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