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Location-Based Networking Is Coming, Get Ready

  • Posted on February 22, 2010
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You may have heard the recent hullabaloo (love that word) about Please Rob Me. If not, get this: the site gathers check-ins from Foursquare and Twitter that blatantly show you are not home and your house is open and ready for robbing.Scary, right?Not so much.…
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Just Say No to Mafia Wars!

  • Posted on February 10, 2010
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OK, listen, I know we are all freaked by the new Facebook user interface. And with good reason. Some of it seems like they just went, "oh yeah, we forgot we needed that!" and stuffed it in their suitcase last minute and had to sit…
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Twitter Tip: When You Start With An @Name

  • Posted on January 6, 2010
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I have noticed this a lot lately, so I thought I would be a know-it-all helpful and maybe shove some advice down your throat help you... if I may, that is.OK, here goes.If you start a tweet with someone's Twittername, it will only appear in…
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Building Community

  • Posted on December 9, 2009
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So remember the other day when I said there were a ton of reasons why I blog?Well, in the very beginning, 4 years ago, which is like eons ago in technology years, this blog was just a diary for me. Plain and simple. But it…
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What’s Your Story?

  • Posted on October 12, 2009
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Recently I got an interesting email from Leslie Flinger, waxing poetically about the subject of... writing. It sparked an interesting discussion and I will let Leslie talk about it at length sometime since it was her topic - but what really happened for me was…
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Watching Your Mouth Online

  • Posted on September 1, 2009
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Oddly enough, right before I saw this article come across Twitter, I had several in-depth conversations with friends in real life about the boundaries and sometimes lack thereof within social media, and how disturbing it can be to watch sometimes. I have a close friend…
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Vacation Guest Blogger: Laurie Writes

  • Posted on August 14, 2009
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I was saving the best for last. Because my very good friend Laurie exemplifies all that is wonderful about becoming blog [*and REAL*] friends with someone across the cyber wires. Read on to find out why.=================A Baltimore-ish Song for Aimeeby Laurie WritesSo I jotted down…
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