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How Many Times Should You Tweet Your Blog Post?

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve argued previously that Twitter is a new form of curated RSS and in many ways it is. But it is a transient RSS reader. They just consume Twitter when they’re hungry for a conversation or some news right now. I left the panel thinking that Guy was off base but realizing he had somewhat of a point.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

I reached out to Michael after their surprising day at the top of Hacker News during early September. The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. According to Michael, the Hacker News exposure was completely unplanned.

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Social Media for Service Professionals

SoCal CTO

Value of Blogging I started the presentation talking about the value of blogging. Tom Peters No single thing in the last 15 years professionally has been more important in my life than blogging. But from a value perspective, it really comes down to the numbers I showed for my eLearning Technology blog. This is that post.

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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

InfoChachkie

As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Similar to their prior guerilla-marketing stunt, their April Fool''s Day posting topped Hacker News. We didn''t ask people to tweet it, they just did.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Entrepreneurs Now Start Hyperlocal Then Go Global

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Give people a way to follow news around a particular block. Geographic customization.