Tag: Twitter
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Recruiting Collaborators for Social Media Experiment #2
I have lots of opinions about Social Media (OK — to be fair, I have lots of opinions about almost everything…), but among them are: It’s still new — so new that no one gets to call themselves an expert at it. If we forget the “social” aspect of Social Media, we’re doing it wrong.…
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Social Media Experiment #1: TBaaS
I would have to say that two distinctly different things in me came together to bring about this particular experiment. First, I continue to maintain that social media is still brand-new. That means that nobody gets to call themselves an “expert” at it. That means that nobody can actually offer “best practices”, merely “here’s some…
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The Why of the Follow
Regardless of your medium of choice for social media — Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, blog posts — the first, and easiest, measure of success is the number of followers you have. There are a lot of social media articles out there that offer tips and techniques for building your followership. This isn’t one of those articles. Instead, I’d like to explore why people choose to follow someone. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and, as far as I can tell, when people follow you,…