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Sunday Night Twitter

Written by Andy on November 9, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Social Media

Love him or hate him, and his x-factor productions, you have to admire Simon Cowell’s commercialism to keep interest in a story running.
The ‘Jedward’ saga generates so much media interest for the X-factor that Simon could not bring himself to judge them out of the competition (no matter how much he claims to hate them) [...]

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Will You Be My Friend?

Written by Andy on November 6, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Social Media

Since we were apes, we have always had a strong desire to belong to social groups and to network (communicate) with others. Throughout our existence we have grouped ourselves into specific groups and communities with other, like-mined, people for support and to share experiences.
The Internet has allowed social networking activities to evolve on a scale [...]

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Some twits just don’t get it!

Written by Andy on August 25, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Social Media

Some people just don’t get the idea behind Twitter and their Direct Selling (no, it’s not Direct Marketing, it’s selling!) makes me want to scream. I’m scanning through my messages and am wondering what people are thinking about when they send me this stuff.
Listen, I don’t want to make $4,000 per month with Twitter [...]

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Social media network

Written by Andy on August 18, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Social Media

Before just jumping in and building blogs and Twitter and facebook and Linked-in etc, think about the end in mind; how are you going to engage with people, what tone are you going to use, what type of content are you going to publish and the frequency. If you think and plan the network through [...]

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Facebook Vanity URL’s also for Pages

Written by Andy on July 28, 2009 - 0 Comments
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As of June 29, 2009 , Facebook fan pages with over 100 fans can now also get their customised/vanity url. To do this go to http://www.facebook.com/username/ and select the username for any fan pages that you administer.
As an example, a page that would originally have be fount at
http://new.facebook.com/pages/the-harcombe-diet/100265415
is now at
www.facebook.com/theharcombediet.
I like this feature. It makes [...]

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