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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 [...]

Wow, a lot of good articles this week in my Google Reader feed! It’s been very tough reducing the list to a reasonable length, but I managed it in the end – happy reading!
Is it Time to be Ditching Traditional Marketing? by Karen Skidmore
Karen argues something dear to my heart – that traditional marketing is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Howard Mann, author of Your Business Brickyard wrote the following in Seth Godin’s free e-book ‘what-matters-now’ available here
“There are tens of thousands of businesses making many millions a year in profits that still haven’t ever heard of twitter, blogs or facebook. Are they all wrong? Have they missed out or is the joke really on [...]