Category Archives: Social Media

Adding To Your Twitter Value

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I love Twitter, it’s a great networking tool and the perfect way to keep your finger on the pulse as a designer and social networker. With 140 characters you have to be succinct but informative, but it’s easy to be […]

Twitter #hashtags And Why #themethursday Is Great

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As Twitter matures as a service it’s becoming far more useful as a tool. The use of #hashtags to allow flexible search and monitoring of topics means you can find relevant information in the massive amount of updates. TweetDeck’s search […]

I Don’t Like Being Berated

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We all sign up for a lot of stuff on the internet. New services, betas, forums, etc. Some of it we test out for a day or two, and never really use again. When a service starts sending out sarcastic […]

Only Cute Girls Make Me Stumble

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I’m pretty active on StumbleUpon. Have been for the six months I’ve been a member. I’ve rated a bunch of pages, I have a reasonable number of fans. And no reviews of my StumbleUpon home page.

In the grand scheme […]

Take Less Time, Do More Stuff

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There is not enough time in the day. I recently worked out my time commitments over a twenty-four hour period. They came to twenty-five hours. That’s not a recipe for anything other than stress. I cut my time commitments from […]