Posted June 17th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
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I'm going to make this short. Many of us want or have wanted to reach out and become the social media superstar that we know is hiding inside. It's scary though to become a consultant without being sure that you have the mad-skills needed to succeed as a consultant.
If you're unsure if you know enough to
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Everyone is all a flutter today about Twitter's value to the Iranians who are revolting against the latest Iranian Election.
I've been excited about twitter for quite awhile, even enough to program my own twitter app: TwtFollow.
I've also noticed twitter being used for many social changes, but think
TwtFollow.com is a twitter app that adds a multilevel approach to building followers on twitter.
TwtFollow.com allows you to refer people down 10 levels. Each person you refer then refer people who follow their referrer, and their referrer's referrers up ten levels.
But that's not where twtFollow ends. TwtFollow is working hard to bring
Posted June 6th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
It has been a few weeks since my last confession...errr blog post. Don't know where that came from, I'm not even Catholic.
I have been silent because I have been busy working on my first major php development project. It's not huge but for me it was quite an undertaking and I must say I'm quite happy with what I've accomplished so far.
I'm
Posted May 7th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
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Deltina Hay is a social media consultant and principle owner for the Independent press, Dalton Publishing. Her online presence includes social media sites like PlumbSocial, Social Media Power, and her publishing company Dalton Publishing.
Deltina Hay has presented for many social media and web 2.0 events.
This is the simplest tip I'll ever write about - it's also the hardest.
How can you guarantee more traffic?
WRITE MORE POSTS!
Did I say it loud enough for you? Fact: There are a million different things you can do to try and optimize your blog, but if you don't have the traffic it doesn't matter. Each blog post I write will bring in at least
Posted April 28th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
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Between Ashton Kutcher, CNN, Larry King, and Oprah the world is now buzzing over Twitter. I personally love twitter, and have used it to build up a number of web properties. (BTW Follow me!)
I love how easy it is to follow real-time trends. I love how fast a person can get questions answered. Sure you could use one of
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Notorious Punk'd Actor Ashton Kutcher has become aware that he has over 850,000 followers on twitter.
He is also aware that CNN(the #1 twitterer), has over 900,000 followers. He has issued a challenge to Ted Turner ceo of CNN, as well as the rest of the Twitter Community. If he gets to 1 Million Twitter followers
Posted April 13th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Announcements
Twitzap is a brand spankin' new web-based Twitter client, focusing on 3 major features.
1. Super Fast Tweets. Twitzap lets you tweet very fast (they claim under 800ms) even when Twitter is down. If Twitter is down, Twitzap will still relay your message when it becomes available again.
2. Search Channels. You can add easy searches to the
Posted April 13th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Announcements
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Apps are great, but sometimes we can get overloaded by them. Whether they're facebook apps, iphone apps, wordpress plugins, or myspace apps, sometimes more is not better.
In an effort to bring attention to only the best of the best apps, myspace has announced that they are rolling out a new "Editor's Pick" category in