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Social Media Twitter

5 Twitter Tools You Should Be Using

I thought I would share my list of Twitter tools I think should be in everyone’s bookmarks. These tools improve the quality and productivity of my account by organizing, searching and analyzing the twitterverse.

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Variable Video

Disney Jumps on The Variable Video Bandwagon

This is one of the most in depth variable videos I’ve seen. You can find some other variable videos and learn more about them here.

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Brazen Careerist Digital Marketing

How Blogging Changed My Life

I started blogging back in college. Bishport.com was my repository for all things Macromedia Flash related. At the time I was teaching an interactive media class at UMass Amherst. I tried to take what I learned as a teacher to my readers.

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Social Media Twitter

Proving The Value of Twitter

I am often assigned the task of showing our clients how we use social media as a tool to communicate with others in our industry in real time. I begin with my whole spiel about how Twitter works and how people find us etc.

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Social Media

Sticking Out in a Community

To get the best out of a community you need to stick out from the crowd in some way. Most good communities have some form of recognition for their more active users. You’ll see a lot of this on most popular ning sites.

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Blogging Social Media

E-Learning with Social Media

While I was living out in Amherst, MA I worked for the computer science department creating math problems in Adobe Flash (well it was Macromedia at the time). The project was called “Wayang Outpost”. It was a virtual SAT tutor that toned in on a students problems and presented exercises to help fill the gaps. […]

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Social Media

Micro-Blogging with Video – 12seconds.tv

My new favorite “funded by burritos” micro-blogging service is definitely 12seconds.tv. I guess one could argue that it is the natural progression of micro-blogging and status updates.

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Free Social Media

I Might Win an iPhone

I wrote about how to use search.twitter.com to find contests and giveaways. Well because of that very post I am half way to winning my very own iPhone 3G and a year supply of chocolate. I received a phone call from Newtree’s PR department about a week ago informing me that I was one of […]

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Social Media Twitter

Starting a Twitter Account from Scratch

If you haven’t checked out my Twitter Starter Page, you might want to go ahead and do that before reading this post. You have to have a pretty basic understanding of how to use Twitter before you can really start using it effectively.

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Digital Marketing Rant Social Media

Using Social Media

One of my favorite parts of my job is hearing the words “well I like what I hear, now put a fence around it”. I’d like to think that this is easier said than done these days as most people forget one essential truth when it comes to Social Media: