I have a troll. Do you? Trolls slither over the internet. They start as lurkers, then get brave, creep out and spit things at you. 10 out of 10 trolls feed on attention. Negative or positive – they don’t care. Attention is the oxygen that keeps them going. Here’s the story of how I found my troll and what we may do next?
Entries Tagged as 'Social network'
How To Handle A Troll & Beat Them at Their Own Game
March 15th, 2010 · View Comments · How To
Tags:Facebook·Identity·Linkedin·Personal Branding·Social network·Troll·Twitter
5 Reasons You Should Leave Facebook and Join LinkedIn
January 11th, 2010 · View Comments · Facebook, How To
I’ve started to use my social networks more strategically rather than adopting a ‘shotgun approach’. In other words, I try to leverage each site by seeing the opportunities it offers and then using these. Recently, I’ve started to shift away from Facebook and moved to LinkedIn. What does LinkedIn offer that Facebook doesn’t? Here are five reasons to Leave Facebook and join LinkedIn instead.
Ten Tips & Tricks to Get the Most Out of HootSuite
January 9th, 2010 · View Comments · Facebook, How To
If you have multiple Twitter accounts, want to schedule your tweets, want to see stats on your tweets, and want it all in a new user interface, then try Hootsuite. I used to use TweetDeck but have moved to Hootsuite as it offers better stats and integration with Facebook. Here are 10 tips to get the most out of this desktop twitter client.
Tags:Add new tag·Facebook·HootSuite·Linkedin·Social network·Tweetdeck·Twitter
IBM: How To Monetize Your Social Network & Why Every Email is worth 948 dollars!
November 28th, 2009 · Comments Off · Social Media
How do I make money from my Social Network? IBM has the answer.
Mark reports here that IBM researcher Ching Yun Lin gave an interesting talk about the monetary value of having friends today at Web 2.0 Expo in New York.
Tags:ibm·Monitization·O'Reilly Radar·Social network·Strategy·web 2.0
10 Best Mistakes I Made in 2009
November 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Career, Technical Writing
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. If you don’t know your mistakes you’re going to repeat them. Here’s my best mistakes.
Tags:contracts·Facebook·GTD·India·Podcast·rates·Social network·Twitter
Dustin Curtis says: You should follow me on Twitter
October 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Social Media, Technical Writing
Dustin Curtis likes experiments. He re-arranged the words Follow Me on Twitter and the position of the hyperlink to see if it would increase the number of followers, i.e. click-throughs. Changing the text increased the clickthrough rate from 4.7% to 12.81%. Here’s how he did it.
Tags:Clickthrough·Command·Follow Me·Hyperlink·Lower case·Online Communities·rates·social media·Social network·Statement·Structured Writing·Twitter·Usability·web·Writing Techniques
How to Get Your Email Answered
October 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Productivity
Chris Brogan (read and bookmark!) just hit a new milestone.
He’s now getting over 600 emails a day on average. 50% were people asking me his time, 25% were “really nice people,” 20% were business opportunities, and 5% were friends. A quick bit of math: if he answered 1 email a minute, 600 emails would take [...]
Tags:Chris Brogan·email·Facebook·google·google docs·Google Spreadsheets·Productivity·social media·Social network·Time-wasting·Twitter
How To Mind Your Grammar On The Web
October 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
Ben Parr (Mashable) asks: “Say your project manager comes to you with his proposal that will be going out to investors, business partners, and potential clients.
Then you find that your manager has used “4” instead of “four”, “r” instead of “are”, and abbreviations such as lol, atm, and idk.
How would you react? “
Tags:Arts·Business·business writing·Facebook·Grammar·guidelines·Jargon·Mashable·Social network·Style Guide·Technical·Technical Writing·TLA·Twitter·writing
