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Custom Facebook Addresses

Sorry for the delay. Facebook kept loading sans graphics for me yesterday, which made it a bit hard to get screenshots.

Have you seen the custom page addresses on Facebook, but don’t know how to get one? It’s simple, really. Get 25 people to Like your page and you can have a custom

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March 12th, 2011 | Category: Facebook, Social Media, Tips, Twitter | Leave a comment

Who Sees Your Tweets?

Earlier this week someone asked me who sees what when a tweet is sent from a public account. My Twitter stream has also been full of controversies such as the fiasco that is Charlie Sheen and retweets of Charlie Sheen on Twitter (Tiger blood or #winning, anyone?). There have also been disagreements between users

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March 9th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Tips, Twitter | Leave a comment

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

The Twitterverse Cares

Have you noticed the trend? Twitter isn’t just for news, status updates, and Follow Friday’s anymore. People on Twitter are starting to realize that the platform can be used for social good.

There are international campaigns to get fresh water in Africa (@charitywater) which has spawned tweets by people urging others to donate in

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February 11th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Social Media, Twitter | One comment

Linkedin has InMaps, what about Facebook?

Linkedin recently released a new feature in their labs called InMaps which visualizes your connections giving you a visual element to who knows who where. Kind of a visual version of the six degrees of separation game with Kevin Bacon, which I apply to Linkedin when describing it to people new to social media,

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February 4th, 2011 | Category: Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media, Twitter | 8 comments
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