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Spambots & Twitter: Removing Spammers from your Followers

There have been several conversations in my tweet stream lately about spammers on Twitter so I thought I would give you a few ways to rid your stream of them.

Blocking Spammers in TweetDeck

If you’re using TweetDeck you can hover over the offender’s avatar and click the gear icon (bottom right), and go

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February 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Tips, Twitter | 3 comments

Twitter is Social – Who to Follow on Twitter?

I’ve been working on the content for my Twitter 101 class more the last week or two and one of my slides is entitled TWITTER IS SOCIAL. Why do I say that? Because Twitter is:

  • Humor
  • News
  • Connections
  • Knowledge Sharing
  • Local

The screenshot of the slide below offers a few examples of

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January 18th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Tips, Twitter | Leave a comment

Posting Tweets in your Blog is as Easy as Blackbird Pie

If you have a WordPress.com account you’ve probably noticed the integration of  Blackbird Pie which allows you to grab the URL of a tweet and upon inserting it into your post have a screenshot of the tweet appear in your blog post. TechCrunch has a post about WordPress.com enabling Blackbird here.

Before this integration

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January 11th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Social Media, Tips, Twitter | Leave a comment

Claim your “Place” on Google

Have you claimed your Place on Google? Your Google Places page that is.

If you haven’t, why not? It’s free!

Your Places page is the page that shows up with a map and hours and other information when a Google Maps search is performed on your business. (See the Six Degrees Web Design Google

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January 10th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Tips, Web | Leave a comment

Auto-Post to Facebook

While I don’t recommend auto-posting everything to Facebook as you need to have some personality shine through on your fan page,  I thought I would start my Facebook Friday blog theme by mentioning one way you can have your post automatically pushed to Facebook.

Networked Blogs is a service & Facebook app I found

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January 7th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Facebook, Social Media, Tips | One comment
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