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Social media for journalists: 9 feeds for your iGoogle dashboard
Oct 28, 2010 | Productivity, Career
Back When Social Media Was Human…
Oct 27, 2010 | Community
Lisa Barone made my day with an extraordinary blog post, Back When Social Media Was Human… She jumped off from the piece I post this week on the Harvard Business Review site, on The Devolving Meaning of Social Media, and pointed to one particular quote that she...
LinkedIn for journalists: 5 reasons to shoot for 500+ connections
Oct 27, 2010 | Productivity, Career
Social media for journalists: 10 ways to use Evernote
Oct 26, 2010 | Productivity, Career, Top Career Posts
A social media resource for moms (and dads)
Oct 25, 2010 | Family
Nicole Cottrell has undertaken a three-part blog series, 15 ways moms can use social media. Judging from the first part, which went online today, it's going to have lots of great ideas. Here are a couple of my favorite parts: Try using your personal Twitter, Facebook,...
A new social media platform for gay rights reminds us what’s possible with social media
Oct 22, 2010 | Community
A "developer wanted" posting on Drupal.org pointed me towards a new start-up that plans to use the power of social networking to advance LGBT rights. Here's the more descriptive pitch on the FriendFactor website: Once we launch, people who are LGBT can set up profiles...
Talking about grown-up love online
Oct 21, 2010 | Relationships
One of the great miracles of my life is the affection between our two kids. As an only child myself, I always feared the prospective challenge of playing referee among multiple offspring. From what I could see of multi-child families, parenting siblings looked not...
The 10 best tool collections for delicious users
Oct 20, 2010 | Productivity, Toolbox
Last week I celebrated my sixth anniversary. No, not my wedding anniversary (we hit number 10 this summer); and not the anniversary of our business (our fifth birthday was a couple of weeks ago). Last week was my delicious anniversary, and after six years I can say...
The small organization’s guide to investing in social media
Oct 19, 2010 | Community
How a small organization can build a content-driven social media presence
Oct 18, 2010 | Community