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Another Nail in the RSS Coffin

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By creating a newspaper out of the Twitter users you follow, Flipboard offers an incredibly convenient way of reading what they recommend. By drawing its content from a Twitter feed, Paper.li You don’t even need a Twitter account to use Paper.li. applies a personally meaningful filter to my reading. list view (click to enlarge).

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Social Media and Ethics: An Interview with B2B Editor Maureen Alley

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Like Steve, she is an outspoken advocate of social media and an active blogger and Twitterer. Do you use your personal twitter account (@MaureenEditor) in your professional role as editor of Residential Design + Build ? I do manage RD+B ’s Twitter account plus my @MaureenEditor account. I also manage RD+B ’s Facebook page.

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“Content Is Power”: Q & A with Mark W. Schaefer

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But on Twitter and his blog he ranges far more widely than what we usually think of as marketing. Even when he wasn’t yet the expert on social media that he is now (see his excellent primer, The Tao of Twitter , for example), his dispassionate looks at new-media platorms and personalities were both entertaining and informative.

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Three Ways to Turbocharge Your New-Media Career

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Our traditional mass-market culture and ways of doing business are built around serving the mass, the normal. If you choose Twitter, for instance, you might pick a number of tweets to do each day and a number of people to retweet. Pick a platform, set a goal for how to use it, and stick to your plan.

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Why Publishers Need Early Adopters, Annoying or Not

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But they’ll also bring to light valuable new platforms as well, like Facebook and Twitter, and perhaps even Google Plus. But they might just save your business. Will they sometimes wax too enthusiastic about new tools that turn out to be dead ends, like Jaiku , FriendFeed , or Google Wave ? Yes, such enthusiasts can be annoying.

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A Boring But Mandatory Redesign Announcement

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Though its default design is overly busy for my taste, its many options allow CSS wizards to transform it dramatically. The Really Simple Twitter Feed Widget to show my recent tweets in the sidebar. I like the minimalist look of this widget much better than the gaudy excess of the official Twitter widget used in the previous design.

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Do B2B Editors Get Twitter?

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As with other business-to-business content creators these days, there are few trade press editors who don’t have—and at least occasionally use—a Twitter account. But how many use Twitter not just for promotion, but for its most valuable benefit, social engagement? I found seven who met this standard. Total Posts.

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