Tag Archives: Social Media

Share Your Foursquare Memories for Teach Yourself Foursquare

Since the cat is out of the bag—Book Three Revealed! Teach Yourself Foursquare in Ten Minutes—that I’m writing about Foursquare for my third book, I want to pull the community into the book as well. Like all the social media … Continue reading

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Prediction: Hunch & Quora gather a ton of buzz, then fizzle out

You all know that I pride myself on trying to be helpful to people. I make time to answer questions, solve tech problems, offer insight without a thought of charging money for my sage wisdom. To be honest, I genuinely … Continue reading

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No one, not a single one of us, is immune to a phishing scam

We geeks like to laugh and shake our heads at n00bs who fall for phishing scams of one sort or another. We chastise out less-geeky partners and implore them to use better passwords. All the while we, the geekerati, feel … Continue reading

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Honestly, Do Any of Us Get Social Media?

Sometimes I have to wonder if we’re all nuts or something. We all talk about social media like there are “rules”, that we truly and honestly know what’s going on day to day. Emperor has no clothes? I’m not even … Continue reading

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Requsite Google Buzz Post

Yep, it’s interesting. We’ll see. EOM.

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Tiny Speck Brings Forth Glitch–Something New in Social Gaming?

Flickr is one of Vancouver’s greatest Web 2.0 success stories. Born in Yaletown, bought by Yahoo, and continues to go strong (at least me and my 14,000 photos hope so). Today (like “today” as in midnight Pacific time) Stewart Butterfield’s … Continue reading

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Dispelling Blogging Myths: Blogging Will Get Me Fired!

Getting fired for blogging doesn’t get as much attention as it did in 2004-2005. Back then, the media was a buzz about people getting fired because they were blogging, when, in truth, very few people were actually fired for blogging. … Continue reading

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Writing is harder than both teaching and doing, but is great for learning

Something came in the mail today, which has made this whole “book” thing very, very real. No, not money, the book! I won’t even get to hold it in my hot little hands for a few hours yet, but that’s … Continue reading

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Never say never–Facebook Fan Page and Adsense comes calling

Yeah, I’m a well known Facebook curmudgeon and haven’t had ads here on the site for years now, but yesterday that changed. Sigh. I’m willing to admit when I’m wrong, or at least when I need to wise up to … Continue reading

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My must have WordPress plugins

Even though it’s been the holiday season, work on Using WordPress hasn’t slowed down only a wee bit. Several of the initial chapters are now in the loving hands of my editors and I’m proceeding full steam ahead. Since crowd … Continue reading

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Walking a line of publicity and privacy. Where do you stand?

Public or private. Tell the world, tell a few, tell no one. This is one aspect of social media that I constantly struggle with in my life. This evening Raul, Guacira Naves, and I were chatting about this very topic … Continue reading

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