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Social Media

Liveblogging #Wordcamp SF 2009, Part 2

May 30, 2009

Matt Mullenweg is giving the state of the word and has told us about upcoming features:

A completely redone widget backend, complete with an API for development.
A theme browser just like the plugin browser, which allows you to search, preview, and install themes from Wordpress.org right from your install.
Backend features and improvements out the wazoo! He [...]

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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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Dynamic Fiction Through Microblogging

October 18, 2008

As a follow up to my last post, “Picking a Genre in New Media “, where I listed out several of the major genres of writing common in blogs and other forms of new media, I thought I would approach some of the genres and try to share some writing tips. Then I saw this [...]

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