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Twitter for Dummies – Part 3: The parts that makes Twitter work

In part 1 of this series, I described what I use Twitter for. In part 2, I highlighted Twitter as a social networking tool. In this post, we will go slightly more technical: looking at the parts in the engine that make Twitter really useful.

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Twitter for Dummies – part 4: The Geeky Art of Nerdy Tweets

You have successfully created your Twitter account. You read part 1 of this series and have some pretty good idea what you will use Twitter for. You understand the importance of building social communities, and which tools can help you with those tasks… And then… the blank Twitter prompt is staring in your face. What [...]

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Twitter for Dummies – part 5: 10 tips for effective tweeting

You have successfully created your Twitter account. Through part 1 of this series you got some pretty good idea what you will use Twitter for. You understand the importance of building social communities, and which Twitter tools can help you with those tasks. Part 4 in this series thaught you the basic syntax of a [...]

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Twitter for Dummies – part 6: The Most Frequent Questions You Will Be Asked

This series all started from the basic question “How do you explain Twitter to someone who is completely ignorant about micro blogging and social media?”. We went through the moves of explaining the social networking side, what you can use Twitter for, the software components that make Twitter work, the technical syntax of tweets, and [...]

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Social Media and the Iran Protests

Iran held their presidential elections on Friday June 12. Late that evening, the current President Ahmadinejad was declared the winner. His rival Mousavi called the results a “charade” and on June 13, thousands of protesters took to the street. That Saturday June 13, I was sitting in Rome, Italy. Thousands of miles away from Tehran. [...]

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Driving traffic from Twitter to your blog: TechCrunch’s example

I posted before about how to use Twitter to drive traffic to your blog, and illustrated the principle with a simple case study. TechCrunch, a hugely popular resource for us webgeeks, just published interesting statistics about the impact of their Tweets onto their main website traffic.

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How to make Twitter work for your blog in 3 easy steps

I previously published a post on how to increase quality traffic on your blog using Twitter. Here is a second simple case study on how Twitter can complement your blog and increase interest for your cause and traffic to your blog. In October 2008, I started several pain vanilla blogs on Tumblr, a simple and [...]

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How to increase traffic on your blog using Twitter?

Here is a small case study on how you can use Twitter as a social networking tool to “create” a new loyal public for your blog. Hello, my name is Twitter As an experiment, I started my own Twitter account about six months ago. Sure, I heard about Twitter, as a micro-blogging platform, limiting any [...]

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The Diagram of a Social Media Network

click for a high res view. In a previous post I explained in laymen’s terms what RSS feeds are, and what they can do for you as a reader, and as a blogger. A more technical post, described some of the technical tools I use to “transform” RSS feeds to different platforms. As my “network” grew [...]

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