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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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Social Media Shows the True Identity of Americans

Social media has enabled us to find out exactly what we as Americans are obsessed with, what we love and what are we doing while we are online? Data shows that we are passionate about royalty, celebrities and routines. Our activities online display what our interests are and where we enjoy spending our time when [...]

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Timeline: The Reddit Invasion (Infographic)

(click to enlarge) via Sortable

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Infographic: When Good Twitter Accounts Go Bad

Image credit: Veracode

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The End of StumbleUpon? Blog Functionality Being Phased Out, Users Headed to Tumblr

Word around StumbleUpon is that the social bookmarking site, powered by its ever-popular and addictive toolbar,  will soon do away with their blogging functionality. User profiles will revert to the “thumbnail” view, erasing years of user-tailored blog pages, some of them carefully tweaked using basic HTML. Though StumbleUpon staff members are assuring everyone they’ll have [...]

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Subtle Digg Changes: Newswire Gone?

Not sure if this is just a temporary glitch, but it seems as if there are some subtle design changes going on at Digg. It also looks as if they’ve already ditched the Digg Newswire. If so, why? (click to enlarge)

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StumbleUpon Adds Suggested Search to Homepage

StumbleUpon’s search feature has always been a bit lacking, the results page leaving you with a seemingly unorganized list of relative content  (the results aren’t in order of popularity or by date of submission). StumbleUpon’s search is further handicapped by it’s inability to search by domain. StumbleUpon offers directions for searching by domain, but I’ve [...]

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My Google+ Experience

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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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Google Plus Cheat Sheet

Though Google+ is in its infancy and there are surely to be more additions to these, here’s a quick overview of the known Google+ hot-keys and styling options, along with some other tips. Image credit: Simon Laustsen

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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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