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Why I Do Not Tweet About Politics

In a social media workshop recently I shared that while I am keenly interested in politics, I choose for business reasons not to buy into political topics on Twitter. The comment at the time was an add on to the workshop, not part of what I’d prepared. Since then, I have asked myself just what

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Social Media Tune Up: Twitter Part 4, Hashtags

In my update last week on the Social Media Tune Up series, I promised another in the sub-series on Twitter, to look at hashtags (#) and lists. Hashtags and lists are features of using Twitter which help explain to the interested enquirer why there is far more to Twitter and Twitterville than people sharing breakfast

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Social Media Tune Up 2011

Last year I started a project I thought would be fairly straightforward, a social media tune up. It proved to be a more challenging task than I’d envisaged. The intention was to go systematically through my main platform-basedsocial media presences, with the aim of refining and generally improving what was there. Although I thought the

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Social Media Tune-Up: Twitter Part 3

In my Social Media Tune Up series, this third one on Twitter goes into a bit more detail on my approach to the “follow/unfollow” challenge and may need to be read in conjunction with the Part 2 post in this series. For the benefit of people new to Twitter, it’s probably worth mentioning the “No

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Social Media Tune Up: Twitter Part 2

Yesterday, as part of this Social Media Tune Up series, I wrote about Twitter and shared some general thoughts about how Twitter fits into my business strategy. In this second post on the topic I focus on my approach to the whole business of following and being followed on Twitter. I emphasize that it’s my

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