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Mediaite.com and Why You Should Know About It…

January 18, 2010
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If you’ve not yet checked out Mediaite – and its PowerGrid, then you definitely should. From the site itself, “Mediaite’s “Power Grid” objectively ranks media professionals across a dozen categories based on their real-time relevance. Power Grid rankings rely on an array of metrics, including anything and everything from circulation to Twitter followers to Google [...]

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Create Your Own Mini Biopic on Animoto

December 3, 2009
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Because part of the focus of this blog is to always provide inexpensive or free ways for authors to do their own PR/marketing, I would be remiss if I did not encourage you to create your own Animoto.
I was up last night like a little Animoto elf creating some and I like this one best. [...]

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Oprah Leaving Television – Ding Dong the Oprah insiders are dead!

November 24, 2009

By now we’ve all heard that Oprah is going off the air to found her own Oprah-dom on cable which we know will be amazingly successful.
The announcement has filled me with glee, when I consider that all those Oprah-esque PR insiders who provide you tons of tips, insider secrets, oprah-show advice etc. will also hopefully [...]

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Building Your 2.0 Platform Does Not Require High Heels

October 21, 2009

“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.” (Sandra Day O’Connor)
It’s really time to stop worrying about how you will “look” on the Web if it’s preventing [...]

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Your Mom Called and She’s Googling You

October 16, 2009

Six Ways To Help Her Find you Faster…
1. Stop being sheepish about your accomplishments and build a truly savvy and transparent profile for yourself on the Web.
(Oy vey – you’re not tooooooo olddddddd to be on the Web. Seriously.)
2. Use Twitter for good, not evil. As mega-celebs close down their Twitter accounts it just [...]

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Six Ways to Expand Your 2.0 Sociability

October 2, 2009
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Six Ways to Expand Your 2.0 Sociability…

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7 Ways To Beat Bloggers Block

October 1, 2009
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1. Make writing your blog a part of your day just like anything else. Don’t wait to be inspired. Set aside 30 minutes three times a week to write a blog post.
2. Read other bloggers – you’ll be inspired and it helps you understand what you can also add a topic that has not yet [...]

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Don’t be a Naked Emperor…

August 31, 2009
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In Web 2.0,  no matter what anyone tells you – you can’t simply put up a shiny blog  and expect that milions of people will suddenly arrive to gaze at its beauty.
Just grabbing a Twitter account, polishing up your Linkedin.com account and reading one or two other bloggers is not enough either.
In that same vein, [...]

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Cool Twitter Resources

July 7, 2009
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Here are some very cool Twitter tools to check out sent to me by my pal Steve Kayser.
www.twitoria.com  — shows you followers who are inactive or lame – so you can manage your follower base.
twubble can help you find followers and so can twellow and tweepular .
Steve’s favorite app for  Twitter is either itweet.net ( [...]

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Twitter Elves Busy…Add More Tools To Twitter-User Stockings!

June 30, 2009

Image via CrunchBaseGreat post on Mashable.com today about the Twitter tech elves and what they’ve added in terms of functionality to the platform.
“For example, on the page listing your followers, Twitter now shows a check mark of the people you follow back. There’s also a pull-down menu that includes options for direct messaging them, sending [...]

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Twitter Funding, VCs and Tweet-perspective

June 30, 2009

Twitter…if they fund it, will it succeed?

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Can you say the world’s a Twitter?

May 23, 2009
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Can you say the world’s a Twitter? NYTimes and New York magazine..

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