Book Review: Me and My Web Shadow

You don’t need to be a tech­nical genius or have to hack into Google’s servers to make sure that your online rep­res­ent­a­tion shows your good side. All you need is to be diligent; create a plan and stick to it.

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The Trouble with Social Content

Researchers from Psychster created social media mar­keting content in a variety of formats to see which worked best. They used the allrecipes.com and Facebook social networks, con­ducting surveys with users after they’d been exposed to the content.

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Time for Miniblogs to Get Different

As you know, the rumour is that the cool kids aren’t blogging anymore. Oh no, they’re microb­log­ging (Twitter, Facebook), or what I’m going to call min­ib­log­ging (tumblr, Posterous, Soup.io). Miniblogging is more than status updates, but not as onerous as a fully-​​fledged blog.

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Six Reasons to Allow Anonymous Comments

While we slept and watched England #fail at sport over the weekend, our American col­leagues were having a rousing dis­cus­sion of the rights and wrongs of allowing people to comment anonym­ously on news sites, blogs and forums.

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Two Free e-​​Books on Social Media

Two more down­load­able social media guides that caught my eye over the last couple of weeks.

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Lies, Damned Lies and Twitter Usage Statistics

Twitter users come in two colours according to recent reports: over-​​​​sharing or silent. Last week, audience research company Nielsen released figures sug­gesting an enormous polarity between active and inactive members in the UK. The graph shows that 79% of time spent on the site comes from just 7% of its members:

Only

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