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Digital Marketing Specialist, Social Media Consultant, and Tech Geek at Heart

How to Get an Influencer’s Attention

Influence is everywhere, but it’s up to you to spot it. As information flow is infinite, many find that it is of utmost importance to capture the attention of the select few who serve as influencers — these are the people who can actually stop their followers in their tracks to help spread your message. Perhaps this...

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The Thing About Friends and Digg: Hit up the Big Guns

Here’s the deal. If you’re real life friends with Kevin Rose, you have a new product website to launch, and Kevin submits the story for you, expect that the submission will make the Digg front page within hours of its submission. There’s preferential treatment to young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and their...

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Fatblogging: I Follow the Zawodny Hacker Diet

Jason Calacanis, entrepreneur and tech dude, who incites Internet riots, started a trend a little over a month ago called “fatblogging.” This was at a time when I was in the middle of a diet but didn’t want to call attention to it, since most of my diets have never been quite successful. Now, with some newfound...

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Twitter is Really Only an AIM Away Message for an Older Generation

I was well before my time when I began using AIM (according to Gaim, I’ve been a member since June 25, 1997). It eventually caught on as more and more people realized the value of “instant” communications online, but there’s a line that was drawn and not many people above a certain age group were really into...

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Successful Verbal Link Bait from the Mouth of Jason Calacanis

SEOs worldwide were shocked by the Search Engine Strategies Chicago Keynote of earlier today given by Jason Calacanis, who said “SEO is BS, if you generate a web page with good content Google will rank the page properly.” Despite the fact that many SEOs did get offended, I’m beginning to wonder if Calacanis had...

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