I received an email today that said I’m a “Twitter snob”. The reasoning behind it was that my follow-to-follower ratio was skewed – I had more followers than people I follow.
Therefore, I wasn’t using Twitter correctly; instead of following everyone back that followed me (which I should be doing, according to the email), I was [...]
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I’m a Twitter Snob? Maybe
Community Spirit
Image by Alex Osterwalder via Flickr
We all know things are tough at the minute.
Businesses are laying staff off or closing down altogether, contractors are finding less clients and people are finding it hard to make ends meet. And it’s probably going to get worse before it gets better.
So here’s an idea. A call to action, [...]
Still Not Convinced? Check Out Twitter’s FollowFriday
Despite its obvious benefits for communication, interaction and connecting, Twitter still finds itself labeled as a fad.
(And my apologies to Chris Brogan who asked us not to talk about Twitter in 2009 – my bad!).
Maybe it is a fad – maybe the detractors are right. But in the meantime, if you want to see why [...]
Clouding The Issue
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How well do you keep your personal and business life separate? Are you able to separate the two relatively easy, or do they crossover too much to have significantly different views? Or to put it another way, if you had a personal issue with someone could you still work with them [...]
Accentuate The Positives
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Can you remember when television was called the root of all evil? How it was blamed for desensitizing kids and breaking up the family fibre? American author and cultural critic Neil Postman wrote a book about it in 1985, called Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Postman’s argument was that television lessened the educational growth of [...]
Pale Blue Dots
Carl Sagan once spoke of our world as a pale blue dot. Of how its size was just a pebble against the vaster landscape that surrounds it. Most of all, he spoke of it as OUR world. It’s up to us how it’s shaped, and how those in it shape it. What part are you playing?
Turning Towns Into Cities
One of the Holy Grails for the online community is to involve the offline one more. Building bridges between those using technology and those who don’t see its worth. Finding ways to communicate the value of both communities to each other is key. Can it be as simple as bridging the differences between towns and cities?
The Best Way to Get Involved in Social Media
Finding your way in social media can often create as many problems as not being involved in the first place. Yet one thing that can’t be argued is that you should be looking at a social media presence. In this guest post from Jacob Morgan, he asks whether you should take your time or jump straight in.
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