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Helpful resource for Blogging & Social Media

Sree’s Twitter Guide Helpful Twitter tip: make your tweets 120 characters so people can easily retweet Other tips from Sree: Blog in your own unique voice on topics that you have expertise in. Strong opinionated posts tend to get more attention. Especially when they are about provocative topics. Now if we all just had 24 … Read more

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Learned a few things!

I attended another American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) event last night—Profitable Social Media Networking for Writers. The panelists were a highly qualified bunch. I was impressed. These ASJA functions serve as excellent networking ops and a great way to meet people that I actually like! Us writers are such a cool bunch, eh? … Read more

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Secrets of Profitable Social Networking

I’m going to another ASJA event next week. I’m looking forward to it. Here’s some details: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 6-8pm CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Room 308, 219 West 40th Street. PANELISTS: Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia Journalism School Dean of Student Affairs and contributing editor, DNAinfo.com. A former technology reporter for WABC-TV and WNBC-TV … Read more

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Analytics to Make Sense of Twitter Links

“As Twitter grows, with an estimated 50 million+ live twitter accounts and it’s increasingly becoming an important source of traffic for many Websites. Tweetmeme already tracks a lot of this data for the most retweeted links, which is what it uses to determine the hottest stories on Twitter. It also gets a lot of data … Read more

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Bing and Microsoft updates

Within the next year or so, Bing will become Yahoo’s search engine, giving Microsoft a larger chunk of the search market to monetize. Within the next couple months, Bing is adding both Twitter and Facebook status updates into search results, giving it a slight edge over Google (who has a deal with Twitter, but not … Read more

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WEBSITES FOR WRITERS

I’ve been asked to speak at the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA). The topic is Websites for Writers and will include what is important for writers to know about websites, what writers need to know about hiring designers and what editors want to see on writers’ websites. This event will be in April … Read more

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Horribly Poor Taste for Halloween

outrageous and inappropriate costumes

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TV Stations Soon to Broadcast Directly to Mobile Devices

By Chris Nerney on Oct 16, 2009 05:07 PM New York Times Bits blogger Saul Hansell reports this afternoon that TV stations now can broadcast content directly to your mobile device. A group called the Open Mobile Video Coalition announced Thursday the completion of a standard that will let TV stations use a sliver of … Read more

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Everybody Wants to Know if Social Media Really Works

Here is a very helpful Social Media Marketing report filled with stats for anybody still on the fence about whether or not Social Media is worth the time. Click here for PDF.

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We Follow is a Twitter Directory

WeFollow is a site to easily find twitter users through hashtags (#). Hashtags indicate groups based on topics. What is great about WeFollow lists the most followed twitterers in lists by topic, i.e., Music, SocialMedia, TV, Tech, News, etc. It also keeps track of the Top Tags, meaning the tags that are the most followed, … Read more

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