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#followfriday @alisonrothwell 17 July 2009

17 July 2009 Twitterverse

Rather than Tweet my #FollowFridays I thought I’d blog about them instead so that I can tell you why I follow these peeps, so you can decide whether they’re your cup of tea too …
@bttradespace – I’m a big fan of BTtradespace – it’s Myspace for business!
@altepper – Green guru and all round nice guy!
@billhilton [...]

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Why I Won’t Follow You Back on Twitter

15 July 2009 How to Use Twitter

Automatically, that is…
I don’t subscribe to those automatic “follow back” pieces of software, I prefer to decide whether I follow peeps or not. If I’m not following you, this might be why…

Are you offering me a way to earn $10,000 a day, or recruit 10,000 Twitter followers in 24 hours? And that’s the only thing [...]

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What’s a Blog Carnival?

14 July 2009 Blog Marketing

Over at an online forum I hang about on, someone asked the question “what’s a blog carnival?”. It struck me that there may be peeps who are new to blogging who may be wondering what a blog carnival is all about and whether it’s worth joining in?
Firstly, a blog carnival is an online event. A [...]

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Why Small Businesses Should Try YouTube

13 July 2009 Social Media Marketing

Take a look at the Youtube video below. It’s a homemade video from a maternity clothes website. The owner, Joanne, is showing off one of her products – a baby change bag.
Ok, so it’s not a feature film, but it’s firstly more than good enough to show a prospective customer what they’re getting for their [...]

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HM Queen Now Tweets!

12 July 2009 Twitterverse

Official announcement from Buck House is that the Monarchy has now joined Twitter. You can keep up with all things Royal by following @BritishMonarchy.
Is it time to leave the Twitterverse, I ask myself?
photo credit: adria.richards
Social Bookmarking

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Where’s the # ???

11 July 2009 How to Use Twitter

Now I’m a pretty much paid up member of the “once you’ve had Mac, you never go back” squad, but with all my recent Tweeting I’ve had a puzzling predicament
Where’s the # ?
You see, my macbook, like the one in the pic on the left has no hash tag. Nada. I confess, I [...]

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#Follow Friday @alisonrothwell

10 July 2009 Twitterverse

Rather than Tweet my #Follow Fridays I thought I’d blog them instead so that there’s a more permanent record of my #Follow Fridays and I can tell you why I follow these peeps, so you can decide whether you’d like to follow them as well…
@bambinogoodies – The coolest baby product blog in the world – [...]

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The Truth About Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy

2 July 2009 How to Use Twitter

Oh dear, the tribute to the British comedy actress Mollie Sugden seems to have caused a bit of a stir out in cyberspace…
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/02/once-again-twitter-trending-topics-polluted-by-spam/
http://mashable.com/2009/07/02/spam-twitter-trends/
Social Bookmarking

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Best social media marketing posts from Jun

1 July 2009 Uncategorized

The social media world moves quickly – here are some social media marketing posts you may have missed out on:

Facebook to Introduce Personal URLs
Posted on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 in Social Networking – Comments: (0)
Facebook announced today that it would be letting users to register usernames and custom URLs on June 13th at 12:00 AM [...]

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Twitter – the Social Media First With the News

26 June 2009 Social Networking

Last night I had my first real experience of social media breaking an international news story.
News of the unexpected death of Michael Jackson reached me while I was working online and having a conversation on Twitter about what type of dog @ellaannounce should buy (general consensus seemed to be cocker spaniel).
I caught sight of [...]

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