All too often, I come across blog posts that are simply a regurgitation of some breaking news or someone else’s earlier thoughts. Shouldn’t a blog be more? I sure think so. Sure, sure…content is king. But shouldn’t it be original content? As we are nearing the 1 year anniversary of Collective Thoughts, I wanted to […]
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StumbleUpon one of the collective thoughts team favourite social media sites has been getting a makeover and the features are slowly being rolled out beyond the beta group according to TechCrunch. The new features have been slowly being coming along for beta users for a while, these include: Expanded use of ratings via the 5
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Photo by LifeHouseDesign Empathy is the ability to understand the depth of another person’s feelings. Empathy comes through conversation and building relationships. Empathy is something that our parents and grandparents showed us how to feel, relate, respect and love others. It is very important for any business to have Empathy, but it should not be
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Our 3rd week of Collective Wanderings draws to a close. This time around, we’ve added a thought to compliment the regular roundup… Enjoy your weekend!! Brian’s picks Essential Skills of a community manager – Chris Brogan Web networking photos come back to bite defendants – Yahoo News If your blog’s ranking is falling, is that
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(Image credit:allspice1) IBM was well known for having golf course privileges for its employees. Quite a perk, right? Well it paid off for IBM, as it kept employees going on talking shop on the golf course. Enter social media. Corporations and draconian IT departments out there often block many or all social media sites from
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An intimate guide for the socially inclined Unless the rock you’re hiding under has been blocking that Wi-fi signal you were pinching, you’ve likely heard of the latest Social Network in the fray – Plurk. And those of you not in the quarry would know its like Twitter’s friendlier sister who’s got a full featured
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We all know that Avatars are important. Having an Avatar in a community means that you are planning on taking that particular Community seriously. If you are using a default Avatar in a Social Networking Community not only will they not believe you are there to take their community seriously, but they probably will never
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People like to talk about social media sites in terms the amount of traffic sent by getting on the front page, backlinks, profile backlinks, and passing pagerank. Image credit: sara.musico Today, we’re going to have a little fun with it. We’re going to take the web 1.0 metric of time on site and go a
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(image credit: iPhotograph) When it comes to hearing about success in social media, we’ve all heard the mantra everyone uses: “content is king.” And yes, there is truth in that statement. How can anything be expected to virally spread like wildfire with crappy content? Imagine, if you will…the content court jester. How many times have
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Image credit – understanding tjsize This is a guest post by one of our Social Media Ninja winners Social media is getting too popular – more and more effort is needed to get noticed there and make friends and fans. Beside being loyal, consistent, truthful, etc, etc, there is one proven technique to gain power
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