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9 Ways To Build A Twitter Community With Substance

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Ah, Twitter. I keep seeing all these people saying “Yay! 1,000 followers!”. And then I get sad, because I think they’re really missing the point. Connecting with people is great, but don’t you want to connect with people who will enrich your experience overall? Everyone uses Twitter differently and I Read more »

Clique, Clique…BOOM

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Brain Athlete Basket case Princess Criminal We didn’t leave cliques behind in high school—we build them every day. Don’t think so? Look around you. Look at whose blogs you read. Whose attention you want. Whose influence you chase. I mean, how often do you really go outside and seek a Read more »

The Taboo (But Critical) Community Skill

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When we talk about community or social media people in business roles, we talk about a lot of things. Their ability to communicate, to interact. To be helpful. To be a diplomat and a conversationalist and a steward of the brand. But because it’s so often a taboo subject in Read more »

A Brief Epilogue

Ugliness exists all over the place. It happens around us every day, and irrationality abounds. Human nature, I suppose. On Twitter, though, and more largely throughout all of social media, it happens in the bubble for the whole Twitterverse to see. Calling someone out doesn’t require a letter to the Read more »