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A Social Media Party Guide: Wallflower to Swinger in 6 Stages

A Social Media Party Guide: Wallflower to Swinger in 6 Stages

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Social Networking Requires Relating

Social Networking Requires Relating

The more I think about what some people are doing wrong with social media, the more it occurs to me what other people are doing right, and how it can be emulated. I’m also realizing that I’m assuming that people know how to relate to each other, but that’s not necessarily true either.

I’m A Digging, Sphinning Plugger who will Bump or Stir You Into the Mixx - How to Solicit My Vote

I can dig it, no pun intended. You want me to vote for your story on Digg, StumbleUpon, Sphinn, PlugIM, BumpZee, StrrdUp, Mixx, or my save on del.icio.us, Facebook, etc….
I know I said my vote isn’t for sale. But, paradox that I am, my love don’t come for free either, baby. The currency ain’t legal [...]

Buying Social Votes Misses The Point, Or Why My Vote Is Not For Sale. Or Loan. Or Lease.

Buying Social Votes Misses The Point, Or Why My Vote Is Not For Sale. Or Loan. Or Lease.

Before I get started, let’s get two things straight.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t offer to fairly compensate the people whose advice you’re seeking. Just the other day I requested that a well-known social media personality help me think through a tough scenario for another party, and I demanded that said party kick in the dough [...]

Tool Time Friday | Lord have mercy! Is this the GIMP we’ve been looking for?

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching (boy, do I need that one), image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. Sacre bleu, mon ami.
GIMP is an acronym. It has many capabilities. [...]

Tool Time Friday | 8 Web Developer Must-Have Firefox Extensions

Again, with keeping the same sort of thread that ran through Tinu’s posts dealing with JV-ing (it’s not really a joint-venture, it’s more like joint sharing) and commenting (it’s the commenting that made these tools available to you), as discussed in the earlier Tool Time Friday post today, I again ran across a great site [...]