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Quick Personal Note on the 35W Bridge Collapse

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Thank you to everyone who emailed inquiring about the safety of my family following last week's tragic collapse of the 35W bridge here in Minneapolis. Thankfully, my family and I are safe, as are our close friends and relatives in the area.

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Social Media, Cell Phones and Online Shopping: Is Big Brother Us?

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It isn't just overweening or Orwellian government agencies that may take advantage of the increasing amount of voluntary online exposure of personal information of course. Facebook can even get a person killed. So what's a person to do? But be careful about how much and what type of personal information you post.

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Update on Pageflakes

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Pageflakes lets you create a personalized start page on the web, similar to Netvibes , TopNetPix or My Yahoo. Finally, and possibly most relevantly, users can create public Pagecasts as well as personalized ones. First, Pageflakes is working with schools and educational boards to help them organize their class schedules.

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Don't They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Critical

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The emergence of social media changed all that of course, so now that person can vent online to, essentially, the entire world. This Time, It's Personal What these CEOs and other executives also need to appreciate is the importance of their personal brand. While you're at it, spend the $95 to own your personal LookupPage.

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7 Reasons Every Business Needs to Twitter

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To Give the Business a Personality Business websites are, necessarily, one-to-many communication. Again using the example of Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh has been successful on Twitter by sharing his personality. Unlike a company website, Twitter is immediate, informal and personal. Twitter is a much more casual and conversational.

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The Four P's of Effective Business Blogging

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Personality: the best blogs have a personality all their own: factual, thoughtful, helpful, smart, amusing or something else. The blogosphere is littered with dead blogs that haven't been updated in three, six, twelve months or longer.

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SEO Is Not Dead, Just Changing: What This Means

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It is changing, however, as Google's plans for search personalization are rolled out. As I noted in my comment to comment Michah's post on Learn to Duck, articles like this have been appearing since at least 2003, so if SEO is dying, it's an awfully slow death. There will be more to come on this soon.

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