http://www.sucomments.com Help, hints, and tricks to optimize your Social Media experience. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:53:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After working hard to clear out my e-mails, and even now trying to cut down on the messages that are left (do I really need to keep over 1000 messages from my StumbleUpon inbox?), I've come to a conclusion. (Sounds of impending doom music playing in the background.) I don't like ... http://www.sucomments.com/2009/05/06/12-reasons-skype-is-better-than-e-mail/ Dear Friends, It feels so good to be writing to you again. I apologize for how long it's been. I should probably confess that during the winter months I tend to get a steady stream of migraines, to the point that coherent thoughts are sometimes difficult, much less putting them into writing. ... http://www.sucomments.com/2009/05/03/conquering-the-e-mail-monster/ Kwippy is a fun new service that allows you to post comments from Gtalk or Yahoo! It is very easy to get set up on kwippy, which is nice, and makes it a great site for introducing people to microblogging. So, let's get started! :) Kwippy is in private beta right now. ... http://www.sucomments.com/2008/07/21/10-minute-guide-to-kwippy/ By Guest Blogger: Marc Berry Marc and his wife write real talk about all areas of relationships, from sex to abuse to pure love and the language of flowers at The Incurable Romantic. Marc is also the author of techne-eikon, a blog about Web 2.0 and Internet Marketing. Follow Marc on ... http://www.sucomments.com/2008/06/06/10-minute-guide-to-friendfeed-part-2/ By Guest Blogger: Marc Berry Marc and his wife write real talk about all areas of relationships, from sex to abuse to pure love and the language of flowers at The Incurable Romantic. Marc is also the author of techne-eikon, a blog about Web 2.0 and Internet Marketing. You can also ... http://www.sucomments.com/2008/06/05/10-minute-guide-to-friendfeed-part-1/ I've been thinking about an article Allan Cockerill wrote a couple weeks ago, about anonymity on the web. In the article he talks about the cons of using an avatar or user name different than your own name, a discussion that struck home, since I actually use both.Now let me ... http://www.sucomments.com/2008/05/17/anonymity-do-the-pros-outweigh-the-cons/ Thanks again for all the blog links. I've enjoyed visiting all of them. The following are the ones I've included in my reader so far: World - International, National, Local, Editorials, History Hungry Blues - "My current research and writing is focused mainly on Civil Rights Movement history, racial violence in the ... http://www.sucomments.com/2008/02/01/what-my-rss-reader-looks-likeso-far/ Last night I deleted all of the blogs from my Bloglines reader. I kept the SU pages, since I know I'd be re-adding them anyway, but everything else is gone. This morning, I deleted everything from my Google reader. Currently they're the only two readers I've used. Now, I need some ... http://www.sucomments.com/2008/01/21/i-need-your-blogs/ A while ago I wrote a post explaining RSS feeds and how using RSS is like creating a newspaper with only the writers that you've chosen to read. As part of my New Year's resolution to get more organized, I decided to pare down the RSS feeds that I subscribe to ... http://www.sucomments.com/2008/01/20/starting-over-with-rss-readers/ Mahalo is a social networking site that I haven't really messed with outside of signing up for it. I've heard some good things about it, and I know that a few people on Twitter use it, but that's about all I know. Review: Every few days I get a message that someone ... http://www.sucomments.com/2008/01/15/10-minute-study-of-mahalo/