On Sunday nights, Mack Collier runs a Twitter-based group chat called #blogchat, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about blogging while hobnobbing with their peers. But, based on the defensive reaction to some of my comments from several of the #blogchat participants, I’ve realized that #blogchat is strictly a place [...]
What if our newspapers were filled with articles on how to write for newspapers? What if the only books we printed were books about how to sell books? What if TV shows consisted solely of monologues about TV? I doubt we’d have much use for them at all. So why do we accept it in [...]
Admit it: deep down, you’ve always known that the world works differently for The Important People. You just hate it when the world proves you right. Take Conan O’Brien, for example. The guy sends out a single tweet and he changes this girl’s life. Meanwhile, you desperately retweet your own blog posts 14 times a [...]
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Last year, I mentioned five “mistakes” I was making in my use of social media. Astute readers noticed I was being somewhat sarcastic, since I normally adhere to the adage that there’s no such thing as “doing it wrong” (unless you’re doing this sort of thing). But there is such a thing as “doing it [...]
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Last night, while I was conducting a Social Media 101 workshop at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance, my Twitter account was hijacked… by my girlfriend. I’d logged in on her laptop before the workshop began, and then I forgot to logout. Since she’d accompanied me to the workshop, she suddenly found herself with two free hours to [...]
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