Archive | June, 2010

Twitter Used

June 28, 2010 Written by Social Media

Recently, Sam wrote a post about the usefulness of Twitter. Some of the inspiration for his post came from this article by Dan Schawbel. Dan reckons Twitter’s power as a marketing platform is declining,  essentially because too many people are broadcasting and it’s too cluttered for new messages to be seen. This made me think about how I use [...]

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Too Busy To Write A Post

June 25, 2010 Written by Social Media

I’ve downloaded Klok and I’m setting it up with all my projects. I’m going to track all of my time and get rid of the things that are needlessly time consuming!

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Is Twitter Useless For Most?

June 22, 2010 Written by Social Media

Last month I hit a minor milestone – my 3000th tweet. Ok so I’m not as prolific as some tweeps but my time on Twitter has been more than fruitful – so fruitful in fact that I had to write a post to help me take stock of all that had happened since I started [...]

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Managing Commenting Energy – An Experiment

June 18, 2010 Written by Social Media

The problem is the time involved. Reading loads of posts until something sparks your interest enough to sit there and craft a well thought our comment is an enjoyable but incredibly inefficient use of time.

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What’s The Best WordPress Comment System?

June 11, 2010 Written by Social Media

Since we’ve re launched our site a number of you have suggested features and tweaks that we should be making. @Jansa020 & AlexWhalley have been particularly helpful in suggesting things that we need to consider and we’ve incorporated a number of their ideas – thanks guys! Two days ago Alex suggested yet another thing that [...]

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Under The Hood Of My Writing Process

June 7, 2010 Written by Social Media

Last week I wrote a post about why I persist with blogging even though I’m a sub par writer. I was fortunate enough to have a few wonderful comments, one in particular probed into what my writing process actually was. As a result I’ve written this post to explore what actually happens before I hit [...]

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