Paul Gillin

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Another useful service that I initially dismissed when I saw a year ago is dlvr.it , an RSS syndication service. monitors any RSS feed you specify and automatically posts items to social media accounts such as Twitter and Facebook. You really come to appreciate RSS readers when you have a lot of topics to monitor.

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Paul Gillin

MARCH 10, 2011

LinkedIn gets none of the buzz of Facebook, and no one’s going to make a movie about it. Spamming isn’t a problem, particularly in the moderated groups, and there’s none of the frat boy histrionics that you find on Facebook. Facebook is about mass, but LinkedIn is about focus, which is one reason it rocks for B2B. Find People.

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Paul Gillin

JULY 29, 2010

Keyword filtering has all kinds of shortcoming and RSS feeds are little better than headline services. Connections to popular content management systems make it possible to automatically publish content to a website and even syndicate it to Twitter and Facebook without leaving the CIThread dashboard.

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Paul Gillin

APRIL 13, 2011

Regardless of the size of the event, set up a Facebook page or create a dedicated event sub-page under your Facebook page. The average Facebook member has 130 Facebook friends. Use a unique tracking code with each promotion and make sure to use a different code for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and e-mail.

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Paul Gillin

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Now that everyone knows the basics of Facebook and Twitter, things start to get interesting. In early 2004 Technorati counted about a million blogs on the Internet and Facebook was just getting off the ground. We have achieved a goal Bill Gates coined 20 years ago called “information at your fingertips.”

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