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Archive for May 2009

Cool New Tool for Finding and Sharing Travel Information

Some cool people I know have produced a cool tool for creating short map links for your email, Twitter, social networks and blogs. aMAP.to is a tool to guide people to destinations with travel-related information for their trips. If you have ever gone through the process of trying to send to someone, successfully, a link

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5 Basic Rules for Creating an Effective About Page

This short list of basic rules for creating an effective About page has been prompted by my frustration with the number of blogs and other websites that either do not have an About page or, more commonly in my experience, do not put their About page to work effectively in the interests of their business.

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Twitter-Generated Business: China Travel 2.0

I have to admit I have no idea how pervasive the online social networking site, Twitter, is in China, let alone its current relevance for doing business in China. This post is about one instance in which Twitter seems to have served a good business purpose – i.e. putting a couple of entrepreneurial people together,

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Gary Vaynerchuk on Making Money with Social Media

Like many others, presumably including most or all of his 397,080 other followers on Twitter, I’m a fan of Gary Vaynerchuk. I admire his hard-won success and am inspired not just  by his passion (I’ve met my share of passionate dills in my time) but more by his amazing combination of passion for what he

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Social Network Friending and Following

How many friends do you have? Or should I ask, rather, “How many ‘friends’ do you have?” Any newcomer to the world of online social networking, especially anyone of the digital immigrant generations, could be forgiven for becoming confused about the terminology of “friends” and – the new verb courtesy of the social networking phenomenon

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