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» 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know

Whatever the reason for ending our Facebook friendship, I figured that many people would benefit from a thorough overview on how to protect your privacy on Facebook. Below is a step by step process for protecting your privacy.
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know.

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» The Ten Commandments of Twitter | James R. Dickey

These Twitter commandments will help you live a long, happy and successful Twitter life if you follow them exactly.
The Ten Commandments of Twitter | James R. Dickey.

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» Searching Twitter for Sourcing and Recruiting | Boolean Black Belt

Searching Twitter for Sourcing and Recruiting | Boolean Black Belt.
Although Twitter wasn’t designed for sourcers and recruiters to find people with specific skills and experience, there are a couple of ways to attempt to pull this off.  For this post, I will focus specifically on searching Twitter through Twitter’s search interface as well as x-raying Twitter using the [...]

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» Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers

Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers.
This guest post is written by Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and the cofounder of Revision3 and Pownce. Kevin, who has over 88,000 followers on Twitter (making him the second most followed after President Obama), also “bloggs” at kevinrose.com. He is an investor in Twitter.

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» Twitter’s hunting for a moneymaker | The Social – CNET News

Another sign that Twitter is finally growing up: The company has put out a job posting hunting for a product manager to help it start raking in revenue. The San Francisco start-up, flush with venture funding and media hype, has yet to make a cent.
Twitter’s hunting for a moneymaker | The Social – CNET News.

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» Why Does LinkedIn Still Have Facebook Envy? – ReadWriteWeb

Commentary on this week’s management changes at LinkedIn implied that a shake-up was needed to make LinkedIn more like Facebook. As somebody who has used LinkedIn extensively and spoken to many people who have also found it very useful, this is a plea to listen to users and not the Valley cognoscenti. Sure, when Facebook [...]

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» Link Building Tips

10 Content and/or Link Bait Examples
* Breaking news…be the first to break some news.
* Create a List like the Social Media list at Traffikd.com.
* Controversial posts…pick a side of some controversial issue and state your points.
* Resource posts for your particular niche.
* Host Internet tools like the tools at Webconfs.com.
* Videos – write a video [...]

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» What is DoFollow? What is NoFollow? Follow Along and See.

If you’ve been doing any kind of reading about link building, then you’ve probably seen people mentioning “nofollow” and “dofollow” links. These are very important terms to understand when you are trying to build great links back to your site in order to increase your search engine rankings. But, to the person who is new [...]

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» HOW TO: Use Twitter for Social Bookmarking

Mashable reader Patrick de Laive over at Fleck, at the suggestion of our fearless leader Pete, put together a simple bookmarklet that posts URLs to Twitter in a shortened form, of course and then saves that tweet as an easy to find bookmark in your browser.
The tool, Fleck Lite, looks pretty slick and it doesn’t [...]

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» Blog Archive 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not «

10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not
Dave Winer talks about why FriendFeed hasn’t gotten super popular yet. He thinks there’s space for a new service between Twitter and FriendFeed. Everyone knows I’m FriendFeed’s #1 customer, but I’ve been studying the two services for a while and have found 10 reasons why [...]

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