Tips for avoiding social media compulsion

Chris Brogan’s blog post, Your Blog is Not Your Job, contains some great tips on how keep blogging and social media from overtaking your primary work and focus. These include: Use an egg timer. If you’re going to venture out onto Twitter, time it. Keep a sticky...

How to monitor your blog’s comments using Twitter

Unlike my Twitter conversations, blog comments often take a day or two to hit my radar. Since Tweetdeck (my Twitter client) is my de facto engagement hub — the place where I engage in online conversation — it makes sense for me to track other conversations in that context. To that end, I’ve figured out a setup that pulls comments on my blog posts, plus blog posts about my writing or speaking, into Tweetdeck.

5 reasons to send Direct Messages on Twitter

In answer to a question posted in LinkedIn, I’ve offered five reasons to use Twitter’s DM function — including to communicate something that is too short to be worth emailing.

Enrich your content with Zemanta

I’m writing this blog post with the assistance of Zemanta, a web service that claims to enrich your blog posts and emails by inserting links, related pictures, articles and tags.

Love your leaks

How do you create a site that keeps people on your pages? By creating a site that's easy to leave.

Searching sustainably at happyfrog

There’s a great big gorgeous frog in the centrefold of the latest issue of SharedVISION now hitting Vancouver’s streets, along with the URL happyfrog.ca… so I guess the frog is out of the bag, and it’s safe to tell you about our latest project....