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Search Linkedin status updates – new feature

3 February 2011

Over the last few years many of the social media platforms have been attempting to introduce successful aspects of their competitor’s sites, and today I heard about another example of this – Signal from Linkedin. Signal lets you search the status updates of Linkedin users for key words. You can then filter these results using [...]

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Seven First Steps in Twitter – 2: Finding People You Know – ScreenCast

13 September 2010

When you’re starting out using Twitter, your real life friends and contacts can be immensely useful. Apart from anything else they are likely to be the most sympathetic with your early attempts to understand the medium, and they’ll help you get started. If they are any good at networking they’ll also start introducing you to [...]

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Turn off Tweeting Via Linkedin – Screencast

20 June 2010

Do you find twitter updates swamping your linkedin homepage? Here’s how to turn them off. Also if you’re a discerning twitter user and want to be more discriminating in how you update your linkedin status, the screencast also shows you how to change your twitter settings on linkedin. You can also view this video on [...]

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Screencast – MrTweet Communities a Phishing Scam?

31 March 2010

Have you received a direct message on twitter like this: “I think you have great ideas for the xxx community. Check this out: [LINK]“? I thought I’d click the link to see what happened, and it wasn’t what I expected. Mr Tweet appears to be using only these DMs to publicise its new communities. The [...]

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Screencast – Twitter: Why Some People Give Up

18 March 2010

According to last year’s Sysomos study, 21% of twitter users have never posted a tweet. Its common for people to say, “oh yes, I tried that twitter thing. I don’t get it.” So why is that? This is my first screencast, a bit shaky! I’d be interested to know what you think of it. You [...]

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