In honor of the Annual Day of the Ninja, we here at Collective Thoughts wonder if you, the reader, have what it takes to be a social media ninja. So, don’t just sit there. Tell us. Comment in 250 words or less why you think that you’ve got the stuff. Mind you, this is not
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Today I would like to address the similarities of how social media marketing is like a fishing tournament with an emphasis on the social voting sites. Many of you already know that I am somewhat of a fishing fanatic. Everything I do has some relation to catching the fish of my dreams! First let’s look
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Nominations are now closed! – To vote for your favourite see here The Open Web Awards are now open for nominations until the 6th December, and this stage of the proceeding is quite open plan. The current 30 blogging partners (increasing daily) have been provided with a list of categories to accept nominations for, and
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With me today is Chris McGill, founder of the latest and greatest social news site, mixx.com. Mixx, only a 7 week old community that’s still in beta, has really taken off as of late, and has been featured in TechCrunch and other prominent blogs. 1 – You’ve got an impressive looking background. Can you tell
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<rant> The sheer propensity of mainstream humans to congregate in targetable, virulent, and roaming electronic social packs has resulted in spawning a beautiful new breed of working class public relations heroes: “The Social Media Czars.” A social media Czar is a true, brilliant, and presumably selfless influencer whose authority was born out of peoples’ revolt,
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…or more importantly, the way most people seem to be going about it, including me at times. Social Media is currently being touted as the answer to life, the universe, and everything online, but there is a lot more to it than just hitching a ride. Lets take a look at some of the things
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Greetings all – thought I would start off by setting the record straight and rebut the post from Brian that Twitter is just for useless cat updates. Even Mashable seems to poke fun at my brethren. The nerve! You’ll find my not so useless Twittering activity here, as I am regarded as a thought leader
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Steampunk laptop by Datamancer.net Some people are hopelessly late. Are you one of them? Many people still think that search engine submission meta tag optimization keyword stuffing PageRank link exchange and similar SEO anachronisms straight out of the nineteenth century will get them website traffic and make it an authority. Wake up, you have been
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I don’t know about you but I often find myself wanting to do more with social media sites, I want to know when posts on my sites are submitted, what my friends are up to, who’s going hot, who I should be begging to submit my posts because their submissions always go hot. Like many
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When I became a Webmaster in 2001 the Web was so different than it is today. Becoming successful was much easier. I started making money fairly quickly. My rules were pretty simple as a Webmaster back then. Create a beautiful site, keep up with SEO and tweak my site often, create fresh content. But, what
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