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Listen to Advice on Social Media

Sep. 11, 2008

Reflecting on my recent series of articles about selected Web 2.0 heroes, I’d like to share with you an important piece of advice for learning about social media:
Listen.
Listen to my words. Read them aloud. Think about what they mean as one person’s perspective.
Listen to other people’s words. Click on links. It doesn’t matter where the [...]

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Why I Don’t Want to Be Added to Your LinkedIn Network (and What I Do Want)

Aug. 31, 2008

As Part 4 of my Heroes series, I will tell you why I don’t want to be added to your professional network on LinkedIn…based on the following 10 assumptions about you:

I assume you have heard of LinkedIn and may have a profile on the site.

I assume you analogize LinkedIn as a job tool and nothing [...]

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Weekly Roundup: We Are the World

Aug. 30, 2008

This issue of my weekly roundup focuses on everyone on the World Wide Web who wrote about me or linked to me over the past seven days. This is about you.
With inspiration to every Araneidan around the world and their spinneret glands which produce silky threads that form spider webs, I thank you for sharing [...]

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How I Organize My Life Online in 3 Simple Steps

Aug. 29, 2008

If you’re like me, you visit lots of websites, read lots of blogs, watch lots of YouTube videos, listen to lots of audio broadcasts, laugh at lots of online cartoons, and link to lots of links.
Maybe you don’t do what I do. That’s OK. I understand. You can stop reading right now if you want.
Because [...]

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Meet the Bloggerati at Technorati

Aug. 28, 2008

Welcome to the 2nd installment of “Heroes,” a series of stories explaining how and why I use social media tools to enhance productivity and better my life. My thoughts are interspersed with the words of industry leaders who are the people behind the tools. Their words are extracted from the book, “Web 2.0 Heroes,” by [...]

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Understanding Web 2.0 in 5 Minutes

Jul. 14, 2008

The above video was a project of assistant professor Michael Wesch of the department of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University.
Titled “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” the video is about Web 2.0 and has been viewed about 700,000 times in the past 16 months.
You should understand the basic concepts of Web 2.0 in about 5 [...]

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