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Social Media and Social Networking are fun, rewarding and can be very time absorbing. Sooner or later though, you have to ask yourself a fundamental question: why am I doing it?
All you bloggers – why do you blog? All you Social and Business Networking site addicts, why are you members?
Bloggers
Why do you blog? Is it [...]

One of the facts that gets quoted every now and then by people advising bloggers on how to write articles is that the top bloggers use the word “you” more often than “me” or “We/Our”. So I thought I’d take a look and see if this is true, or another Social Media Urban Myth.
As a [...]

Week 3 in the series – I had decided to try this for a month and see whether people found it useful. Next week is the last in the month – let me know if you enjoy the reviews and find them useful!
Social Media misconceptions: 1. I don’t have time. by Nick Tadd
English blogger Nick [...]

Wow, I’ve read over a hundred really cool articles this week (thank goodness for Google Reader)!
Again, in no particular order, here’s my pick of the week.
Will The Business People Please Stand Up? by Amber Naslund
I have to confess up front, I like Amber’s blog and could easilyhalf  fill this post with her articles. But this [...]

Sometimes we can feel buried under the avalanche of blogs on SM issues. Below, I’ve detailed ten of the best that I’ve found from the last week, and listed them in no particular order – happy reading
Louis Gray on Blogging for Business, Social Media Sales, Strategy
Louis recently published three more short videos, including sales advice [...]

I’m sometimes asked to recommend a book on social media and social networking and thought I’d post a few ideas here; these are all books that I’ve read in the last 2 months!
Trust Agents – Chris Brogan, Julien Smith
This is in some ways similar to Penny’s book in that the focus is clearly on creating [...]