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Better Google Plus: Google+ Cheat Sheet

By now nearly everyone has heard of and probably seen Google+. Yet most are still lost when it comes to actually using it expertly. With so many functions, Google Plus can be a difficult social media site to master. Thanks to Eric Welke we can now cheat at Google+ like a pro… via holykaw

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Take a Better Look at Browsers: What an Average Web Surfer is and Your Users See

Many things have changed online over the years, even more with average web surfers specs. Mostly since the internet became available to the public and personal computers became commonplace. Monitors went from 13” into the 20″+ range, color depths went from 8bit to 32bit on average, connection speeds went from dial-up to broad band and [...]

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Social SEO Flashback Circa 2006: Social optimization is the new hot SEO technique

Social optimization is the new hot SEO technique, but is it really white-hat SEO? As usual there is more than one answer to the search engine optimizers question.

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Android App Attack: Search Social and Stats to Go

Sometimes you really don’t need a computer at a meeting, let alone those stray run ins face to face when you just don’t have one. Tablets although an option can be just as cumbersome and difficult to have ‘in the moment’ when you need it. Your phone on the other hand… well if your at [...]

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For Hire Media South by Southwest: New Media For Hire SXSW 2011

Look for Nick Mich and Conrad running through the crowds or catch For Hire Media online to see where we will be daily. Hope to see you there but always glad to meet her there or anywhere.

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The Social Media Alphabet

A: Always on, APIs,Agencies B: Brand, Blogging C: Content, Curation, Community D:Dialogue E: Endorsement, Entertainment, Exceptional F: Facilitation, Fake, Filter G: Genuine, Graph [Social Graph] H: Honesty, Hype I: Intelligence, Instant J: Join, Judgement K: Karma L: Links M: Marketing, Monetisation N: Natural, Network O: Opinion, On & Offline P: Personal Q: Quality / Quantity [...]

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New Media Crash Course Video Sessions In Social and Digital Media

New media… a big idea. A New Social Media Revolution has Already Begun Social Media Revolution 2 is a refresh of the original video (http://www.socialnomics.com) with new and updated social media & mobile statistics that are hard to ignore. Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman. …and now that you know the facts, take [...]

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How to Make a Custom WordPress Feed For New Digg Publishers Accounts in 2 Seconds

While setting up a ‘New Digg’ account for a network site, we noticed a small problem. Digg asks for a special feed. Most websites only maintain one feed, although many may offer various formats like rss and atom feeds. Few have more beyond comment feeds, if even that beyond the main feed. After a quick [...]

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100 Free Cutting-Edge College Courses For the Unemployed

100 Free Cutting-Edge College Courses For the Unemployed Just because you are unemployed doesn’t mean your day can’t be filled with productivity and learning. With so many college courses available free of charge, there are plenty you can be taking to improve your skills and expand your knowledge to help you become a prospective employee [...]

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Rock Paper Scissor or Digg Hide Bury (Report) Digg Psych 101

or Dr Bury meets Mr Hide and Removal of Digg Stories on Command Ok, so this is quiet possibly the most controversial change the ‘New Digg’ has brought to the table. Goodbye bury brigades, end of story. Some people  (an ebirdy told us they used it, HEAVILY) are outraged at this. Others are confused or [...]

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Twitter Unfollow Profile

Greasemonkey Userscript to automatically unfollow anyone who’s twitter profile you open. We have humorously dubbed this one the “Avian Assassin”…

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Page Follow

Automatically follows all users on a page 1 by 1 in a Twitter friendly fashion.

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