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How to Protect Your Privacy and Identity Online

There’s been a lot of controversy about online privacy lately, especially with Google and Facebook making major changes that affect privacy and automatically signing members up without warning.  As social media makes our lives more public, the responsibility for protecting your privacy and identity is left in your hands.  There are 6 ways you can start [...]
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The Famous Social Media Workshop Banana Bread Recipe

A couple of years ago I did a 6 week creative writing workshop with Chris Fraser.  Each session, I would turn up to her house which smelt like freshly baked cookies or some other delicious treat and during the break we would feast.  The homemade baking was a nice touch that I really appreciated. When [...]
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The Truth About Twitter Automated Direct Messages

When I was a teenager, my friends hated McDonalds pickles. Pickles aren’t really an Aussie thing. Or maybe they just aren’t a teenager thing. They would pick them out of their burgers and throw them against the wall to see who could get their pickle to stick for the longest. Automated Direct Messages (auto DMs) [...]
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Profile Photos

A good profile picture is essential for anyone using social networking as a business activity. Your profile picture is the first thing people see on social networking sites like Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook. The photo helps people make decisions about you – whether to add you, what type of person you are and even whether [...]
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How to Download Your Facebook Friends’ Email Address

Recently Facebook and Yahoo formed a partnership of sorts and with it came an exciting new feature – the ability to download your friends email addresses.  If you don’t have a Yahoo Mail account, you can sign up here. This is great for businesses owners because it means we can get our connections off Facebook [...]
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The 5 Stages of Using Social Networking for Reputation Building

Participating on Online Social Networking tools like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin can be an effective way to build your reputation and reach an expanded audience; if you connect with the right communities, share quality content and engage your target audience effectively. To increase your Social Networking effectiveness, identify which of the following stages you are [...]
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The Secret to Getting Great Linkedin Recommendations

Linkedin allows you to stay in touch with your network, build relationships and keep up to date with important changes to your contacts’ situation – such as employment changes or business developments. It also has the ability to help build your credibility with new connections and potential prospects using the Recommendations feature. Recommendations are testimonials [...]
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Top 5 Tweets of the Week – March 1st – 8th 2010

This week's top Tweets based on Retweets, click-throughs and comments include 4 seconds for your website, tips for treating your customers like friends, Getting the most out of Linkedin, Ages of Social Network Users and Social Media Monitoring ebook.
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The 5 Step Twitter Maintenance Guide

This week started to notice weird spam accounts Tweeting to my Twitter feed and since I check everyone I follow, I had a feeling some random application out there was adding these SPAM accounts, most likely an application that I had tested out and gave my password too (naughty, naughty me). So I’ve been motivated [...]
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