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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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Defeating Search Engine Tunnel Vision

January 25, 2009

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Google is Training Us
I had the great privilege of chatting with Aaron Brazell at Wordcamp last summer, and he said something that got me thinking. Google has trained us to search in certain ways and leads us to basically similar sites. This is not just a dark web problem, this is a problem [...]

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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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Ten Steps to Being Everywhere in Social Media

July 25, 2008

So you want to be everywhere?
I think that to succeed in the social media world, a key concept is social density. I work towards this by constantly looking for new sites and services to maintain a presence on and being active in many different microblogging communities. I also manage to at times have a life [...]

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