Tag: social media
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Real Names Are Highly Overrated!
Google recently reversed its “real names” requirement for members of its Google Plus social network. Good call, Google — and good riddance. It’s about time! In the Internet’s early days, being online was all about anonymity. You could create a mask. You could hide behind it in cyberspace. You could be — or appear to…
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Why Google Plus “Isn’t Working” for Gary Vaynerchuk
Celebrity marketer Gary Vaynerchuk is “almost willing to predict” Google will close its social network, Google Plus, within three years. Why? Because G+ (as loyalists call it) “isn’t working”. Is GaryVee right? Well, he’s certainly right that it isn’t working for him. We’ll discuss why in a moment. He’s also “right” in his “almost…
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The So-Called “Islamic State” Is Not “Islam”
It’s bad enough to speak of Muslims as if they all were terrorists. But isn’t it even worse to call terrorists and terrorist organizations “Islam”? Even if they call themselves Islamic. Especially then! Inflammatory references of just this kind are creeping into popular speech. They pop up in unguarded, off-the-cuff comments — the kind that disclose our real thoughts and…
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Format Text on tsū? Here’s How!
Text formatting on tsū, the new social network that pays for submissions, may at first seem impossible. It isn’t! Oh, tsū still doesn’t have the rich formatting options of Google Plus. (No bold or italic for example.) You can’t even divide your text into paragraphs, as you can on Facebook. Yet. I say “still” and “yet” because tsū is…
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See Me on tsū!
See Me on Tsu! Let’s connect on the network that pays us for what we post. Seriously, Tsu — pronounced “Sue”, as in — is a new social platform. It’s barely a week old. It’s hot. Need an invite? Use mine: http://www.tsu.co/GaryMatthewsWhen you sign up, Tsu will ask you to “enter a member’s shortcode”.…
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Google Plus: Track Posts and Comments
You’ve written a wildly popular post on Google Plus. People are talking. Lots of reshares, including some by social-media heavyweights whose followers greatly outnumber yours. You shared it first, perhaps, as a link to your blog, with a terse summary. You shared it again as a standalone article, with a great cover photo. Again with a…
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More Fancy Fonts and Special Characters
Brighten your social-media posts with fancy fonts and special characters! Like this: ℱᗩﬡᙅᎩ ℱOﬡ☂ᔕ and ϟ℘ℯ¢ḯαł ℭнαґα¢☂εґṧ. As ever-more publishing migrates to social platforms like Facebook and Google Plus, the apparent lack of formatting options becomes confining indeed. On Facebook we have essentially none. Google Plus users are lucky: There we at least have boldface, italic, and…
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Track Your Posts with Funky Hashtags
By incorporating unique hashtags into your social-media posts, you can track them in remarkably useful and powerful ways. With one click, you can (a) link to a given post, (b) summon up all shares and reshares of that post, and (3) collect on one page all the introductory remarks and comments belonging to those various…
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Circle Sharing on Google Plus
One feature of the Google Plus social network that confuses many newcomers is “shared circles”. Heck, it confuses more than a few old-timers. And the very concept of “circles” can itself be confusing! As soon as possible, I’ll update this post with some background information on Google Plus circles — or G+ circles for short.…
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Gratitude Plus, Google Style
This is a quick note to say “Thank you!” to the wonderful members of the Google Plus social network. G+ is an online community in which I’ve been active only for a few months. Maybe since late June or early August. It’s hard to say, because I’ve had an open account there for considerably longer;…