So now that you set up a twitter account, do you know what to do? When to do it? Why you are doing it when and how you are doing it? Follow Follow those who follow you. There is a magic threshold of where you follow more than follow you that will have you marked as a spam account. You
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I really can not add more to this great discussion from Q on CBC Radio than what is said below: Clay A. Johnson argues that if you feel like you’re suffering from information overload, the real problem is probably your own bad habits. In his new book, The Information Diet, he makes the case for mindful media consumption. He advocates
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From time to time I receive requests for measurement tools to measure the reach of a twitter account and it’s efficacy when it comes to the tweeting. While there is no one tool that can give you all the information you need, the following do a good job as a collection to let you know how you are doing. All
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I listened to The Current on CBC Radio with some interest this morning. They were talking about the national Liberal Party convention in Ottawa over the weekend. It seems that that party is trying to be more open and inclusive. What struck a chord with me is that the attendees were treated to some social media learning. They had a
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All too often in Facebook I see posts as the following format. There is wasted opportunity by posting in this manner and also the inclusion of the URL is just plain ugly. Facebook has not made it easy to figure out, but you can make this a lot better. Not to mention I don’t even see the post title
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Don’t focus on fancy apps; focus on creative status updates. The newsfeed is the goldmine. Only 10% of fan interactions happen on the actual page Wall, while a whopping 90% occur in the newsfeed. What makes an effective status update? Here are some essential elements: Keep updates short & sweet. Ideally no more than two sentences or people won’t read
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Organic search results are listings on search engine results pages that appear because of their relevance to the search terms, as opposed to their being advertisements. In contrast, non-organic search results may include pay per click advertising. Unlike a website, we do not have full control over the optimization for search engine ranking on Facebook, however there is some things
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“Don’t tweet checkstop locations, police ask. Calgary police are asking people not to use social media to alert others to checkstops.” So starts a story on cbc.ca from Calgary. While I admit that there is nothing wrong per-se with the force in Cowtown asking this, what I do see amiss is that there warning that “… the information becomes outdated
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