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Keeping the Social in Social Media

11 September, 2008 (09:24) | Social Media, Social Networking

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Last night I was talking with NowSourcing. He has an experiment going on where he’s taking social media “to the streets.” For the next 10 weeks, he wants to start meeting the people that he’s interacted with, bringing a [...]

Building Online Friendships The Right Way

16 August, 2008 (08:28) | Social Media

This post was written with the help of my Plurk friends, and contains some insights from them that may just help you to build strong online friendships.

I began by asking a series of questions over the past day or so about their relationships on Plurk, and other sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
Contrary to the [...]

Introducing Allan Cockerill

13 August, 2008 (10:56) | Allan Cockerill, Facebook, Social Media

When Allan told me he was thinking of making some changes and moving different topics to new blogs, I knew the perfect place for his social media writing. :)

Allan Cockerill is the Facebook expert I call on whenever I have questions. He has been instrumental in bringing attention to much needed changes in some Facebook apps.

Are Your Stumbled Pages Sticky?

30 July, 2008 (13:49) | Plurk, Social Media, Stumble Upon

My favorite thing about StumbleUpon traffic is that for the most part it is directed traffic. When you register on SU, you select topics that you’re interested in. If you click the stumble button and visit a new site, you are taken to a site that fits one of the topics you’ve chosen.

Second Life, Plurkshops, and Immersive Experiences

29 July, 2008 (15:25) | Plurk, Plurkshop, Second Life, Social Media, Social Networking, Virtual Reality

Over the years, I’ve been told multiple times that I needed to get on SL. I don’t know how many times I’ve downloaded the program, ready to start, but for some reason I’ve never once completed the registration to use SL (or if I have, it was so long ago that I’ve forgotten and the system has erased me).

A Plurky Idea

29 June, 2008 (10:52) | 10 Minutes, Hacks, Plurk, Social Media, Social Networking, Tricks, social networks

We really needed a way to know someone else has referenced us. Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about coding, so can’t write a program to do it. I do know about hacks though, tricks you can use to enhance your experience with a program or site.

10 Minute Guide to Plurk - Part 3a

23 June, 2008 (22:57) | 10 Minutes, Emoticons, Plurk, Social Media, Social Networking

Barbara decided to test out plurking from her phone. It might be bearable, she decided, except for one thing. There was no list of emoticons for her to use.

Save the Fail Whale, Block a Twitter Spammer

16 June, 2008 (13:26) | Friends, Help, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

A couple days ago, Mousewords mentioned that there was a guy on twitter who kept unfollowing and refollowing her. I said that following numbers had been going up and down for a lot of people, so maybe it was a twitter issue, and she sent me to this page, which discusses “The unusual case of [...]

Design the Perfect Social Networking Application

12 June, 2008 (09:51) | Social Media

What elements would the ideal social networking application have? What things are there that you can’t live without or wish someone would hurry up and add? What would your ideal communication application look like?

10 Minute Guide to FriendFeed - Part 1

5 June, 2008 (20:53) | 10 Minutes, Beginner, FriendFeed, Guest Bloggers, Marc Berry, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

FriendFeed is an aggregator for all your online social activities. It brings all your friend’s network activities under one roof.