As usual, I am coming in on the tail end of a controversy. This post has to do with thoughts that started off, anyway, in an Agent Genius post. No, I take that back. It did not start there- it started maybe 2 months or more earlier in the planning stages …Read the Rest
Factors that Determine a Tweet’s Authority 1. Following: One way Google deems your tweet valuable is by the number of followers you have. Therefore, tweets from a user with 1,000 followers will have more authority than tweets from a user …Read the Rest
Lists of good follows for twitter have been floating around lately. There have been many discussions about the validity of these lists, whether a list of followers does anyone any good, and even the motivations behind creating a list. And …Read the Rest
I wanted to post a few things coming up that some people had asked about: Oktober 10: Oktoberfest Tweet-up in Maine- Smugglers’ Den Campground, Route 102 – Southwest Harbor, Maine, to be exact Next we will be in Delaware: October 13: …Read the Rest
We were on the Social Media Edge Radio show yesterday. I say “we” because EVERY SINGLE MEMBER of the show was a TwitterQueens except Ken Cook, who became one halfway through. Lesley, Maya and I all spoke, and the audience …Read the Rest
From Mike Mueller’s blog/website: If you missed the show today – they were great! You are not completely out of luck though. You can listen to the archives. Just go to the Facebook Page, become a Fan, and click on …Read the Rest
It’s funny- just as I was settling in to write this, the Mashable squirrel scampered past, so of course I had to follow it to the Information is Beautiful blog. These are the graphical depictions (based on the data from previous surveys …Read the Rest
Coming home from Inman Connect San Francisco, I had a lot to think about. We heard a lot of information that people brought in and shared. Even more importantly, when you get clusters of smart people together, you can almost …Read the Rest
I saw a great title for a post today. It was: [from {grow}] The post discusses, among other things, the difference in thinking about social media results as ROI or Impact. It can be difficult to quantify exactly where business …Read the Rest
Regarding social media: …marketers need to bring a little balance to the justifiable demand for performance accountability… when you’re in a competitive market that demands innovation, you have to get in the trenches to help innovation along, instead of just …Read the Rest
I was sitting outside today with my daughter and a person working for the local newspaper drove up- giving away copies of that paper. I was surprised at how thin the paper in general was, and when I glanced at …Read the Rest
Twitter itself is hard to follow and sort unless you have untreated ADHD, which may be another reason that I like it (Hey- is that a squirrel?). But most people download a client to help sort things out- like Seesmic …Read the Rest
Today I will have posted my 25,000 tweet on twitter. I’m not that much of a numbers gal. I am very competive with myself and a few other people who just seem to press that button, but that’s a different …Read the Rest
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