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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 YouTube.
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Using Pull Marketing on Twitter (and how Push marketing won’t work)

31 May 2010
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You may have noticed from my last post that Linkedin is very like face-to-face networking in some ways. You’re not going to walk right up to a stranger and offer them your services (or shout at them for that matter). Instead you wait to be introduced. Polite.

Today I’m going to talk about Twitter, and in [...]

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A Very Innocent Rabbit

19 April 2010
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A funny thing happened to me on the way home from work on Friday.
I was innocently scanning the stream of people I follow on twitter when I noticed that @Innocentdrinks (the makers of the lovely Innocent smoothies my son loves so much) had a new ad, so iPhones being what they are, I clicked through [...]

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Why do some people automate their tweets? Misses the whole point of Twitter for me!

14 April 2010
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The title to this post is a tweet by Mark Waddell sent on to me by Keith Kelly who thought I might be able to answer it, so I thought I’d let you know my response and see what you thought as well.

There are some times when automating tweets makes sense…
1. You want to provide [...]

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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 direct [...]

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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.

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Using Twitter and Linkedin to get a Job – Paul Weston’s Story

16 March 2010
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“Its like a soap opera, it’s the soap opera of life” – Dave Monk BBC Essex
This morning my friend Paul Weston was interviewed live on BBC Essex radio by Dave Monk. Paul is a normal guy, an estimator from Essex who like many of his colleagues was made redundant recently. So how come he’s on [...]

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Twitter: No-one Reads Everything you Say (and that’s OK)

15 March 2010
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When first starting out on twitter, we follow our friends and people of interest, and some follow us back. Do you find yourself reading the whole stream – making sure you don’t miss anything?

What happens when you’ve found over 50 people to follow – do you still read everything they say?

This is the point when [...]

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What is twitter really useful for? [Survey Result Post]

11 March 2010
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In the last few weeks we’ve seen what twitter is not – its not a broadcast medium, its not a waste of time, its not trivial.

So what are people like you using twitter to do, and why?

Here are some examples given by respondents to my Twitter Survey in January. I’ve added in a few of [...]

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How to beat the Twitter Phishing Scam: FAQ

27 February 2010
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Or: what to do if your twitter account starts sending messages without your consent?

There’s a wave of phishing messages spreading out over twitter at the moment, and its very disconcerting. Suddenly you find that your friends are complaining that you are sending them rude direct messages on twitter, or someone tells you your account has [...]

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