The Future of Scribnia

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This is a guest post from David Spinks. David is the Community Manager for Scribnia.  With a passion for the power of social web communities, he has utilized his knowledge of community building to establish a professional career in the social media field. He authors a blog at www.davidspinks.com and contributes to the Scribnia Blog.… [Continue Reading]

From Twitter to Blog – #FollowFriday Vol. 1

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Last week, I wrote about why I was moving my #FollowFriday recommendations from Twitter to my blog. I suggested why it should be more than just a name and a link on Twitter. So, here are my recommendations for this week. I hope you check them out – they’re more than worth getting to know.… [Continue Reading]

Gosh

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One of the people I connect with online, and whose blog I read regularly, is communications whiz Arik Hanson. Arik has a very savvy mind on him and has actually guest posted here before. A couple of weeks ago, Arik opened up the first Annual PR Readers Choice Awards for blogs. After the initial nomination… [Continue Reading]

You Are Not The Story

You are not the story. You never have been. Not even in the “bad old days” before social media were you ever the story. You may have thought so. You may have fooled your clients into thinking they were lucky to have you because everyone listens to you. You may have blinded them with newspaper… [Continue Reading]

Is #Journchat Losing Its Fizz?

Back in November last year, #Journchat was launched by PR maven Sarah Evans. Its aim was simple – use Twitter to bring journalists, PR professionals and bloggers together on Twitter in a weekly chat format. Since then, #Journchat has gone from strength to strength and brought in special guests from CNN as well as regularly… [Continue Reading]

Because #FollowFriday Isn’t Just for Twitter

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A few months ago, #FollowFriday was introduced to Twitter. It was a great concept – recommend people you’re connected with to others. It led to new discoveries, new friends, and quickly made #FollowFriday a Twitter mainstay. Lately, though, #FollowFriday seems to have just become an endless amount of names and no more. While the idea… [Continue Reading]

Better Twitter (and ROI) with Topify, Seesmic Desktop and bit.ly

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People talk about Twitter and ROI (return on investment) and how there’s no real definable way to measure success or use the tools to your best advantage. At least, not unless you put a whole load of time into it. While that can be true depending on your needs, there are also plenty of ways… [Continue Reading]

I Want to Fall in Love With You

I’m a romantic. I think that love is the one constant that we all want to be in. We want to love and be loved; being in love is infinitely more preferable than being alone and unloved. You, as a business, want me to love you. Or you should. You should be wooing me big… [Continue Reading]

In Case You’re Interested…

… I was recently interviewed by David Holliday for his Totally Incorrect Media series. It’s an audio interview, and you can either download the mp3 file or catch the recording over at David’s blog. We discuss social media, blogging, 12for12k and a whole load more good stuff. David was a very genial host and I… [Continue Reading]

A Tale of Two Twitters

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It’s been quite a few days for social networking site Twitter. Many users are up in arms about a recent change that Twitter implemented regarding replies to other users. I’ll be the first to admit that, originally, I thought it was a major overreaction on the part of the users who were complaining the loudest.… [Continue Reading]