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Follow Friday Protocol

On Twitter, an interesting, entertaining and extremely useful ritual takes place every week on Friday.
FOLLOW FRIDAY is a chance for you to recommend other people on Twitter that you think merit being followed – for any reason at all.
The result is often a mish-mash of suggestions. Some folks are cryptic, just listing user names [...]

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Here Comes 'Real Time Web'

I’ve been thinking about Marshall Kirkpatrick’s exciting blog post at Read Write Web about the potential value of the ‘Real Time Web’.
At first read, the concepts were pretty abstract, and frankly I didn’t grasp much of what was possible using it. But upon reflection, a few ideas did strike my mind.
Looking at it from [...]

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It's a REAL World Online

I’ve been using the Internet and World Wide Web since 1995.
Over 14 years, I have seen sublime acts of sacrifice and support, generosity and greatness, heroism and helping.
But unless you’re a Polyanna clone, you’d have come across instances of the ‘flip side’. Horrifying acts of deadly depravity, distributed worldwide through the frictionless Web.
Nasty things [...]

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What Technology?

On Thursday, at dinner, my teenage niece was aghast at what I had just done. My cellphone beeped, indicating a message had arrived. And I IGNORED IT!
She was visibly agitated. “Aren’t you going to see what it is? It’s on YOUR cellphone!”
And became even more so when I replied: “I [...]

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DON'T Twitter…

At least, don’t Twitter for ‘direct response’ effects.
Why not?
Because while Twitter has mostly been pretty poor for direct response style marketing, this has become MUCH worse recently after it hit the mainstream and has millions of new users signing up.
This is my theory of why it might be happening.
With many new Twitter users, all of [...]

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Twitter – As LIFE!

This was the tweet that set off the thought that caused this post.
Twitter – like life – has never been a ‘popularity contest’… regardless of how hard some folks have recently attempted to make it one. That’s why, when I tweeted this last night, so many picked up on it and retweeted the note:
Live [...]

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Mindless Media, Limitless Possibility

This blog post has been ‘composting’ in my brain for 2 days.
During that time, there has been a mindless media frenzy about an actor named Ashton Kutcher getting one million followers on Twitter ahead of media giant CNN, which was (from what I hear) quite a contest to win.
I wondered why.
Frankly, I didn’t see any [...]

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Twitter Change

I test many things, try different ideas and end up embracing the ones that work, dropping the others. And no, I’m not afraid of being wrong – or accepting it!
These are the changes I’m going to make to the way I use Twitter. (With 2,749 followers, I felt that merited a blog post!)
1. [...]

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5 Things I DON'T Do On Twitter

I DON’T Auto-follow
‘Auto’ NOT based on ‘technology’ but as in ‘automatic’ – that is, reflexive, unthinking, reciprocal.
Over 2,500 people follow my account. But I only follow around 40 myself. That’s by choice. It enhances my Twitter experience.
I DON’T Auto-DM
‘Auto’, this time, YES – based on technology. As in ‘automated welcome DMs’ [...]

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5 Things I DO On Twitter

Read tweets of all those I follow
I see this as mandatory, as otherwise why would you FOLLOW someone?! And because it’s impossible to read tweets from many people, I limit the number of folks I follow to a modest figure – and use Twitter Search to browse the tweet-stream for other interesting stuff.
Respond to [...]

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