Enjoying An Extended Follow Friday

Follow Friday lasts a while here! Living in eastern Australia, I’m ten hours ahead of GMT, and about 14 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time in the US. This means that I still receive #follow Friday tweets on Saturday! Not that I mind, because it gives me the chance to poke around, and see who … Read more

5 Quick Ways Not To Get Me To Follow You On Twitter or Plurk

And 5 more ways to get me to stop following you if I do! OK, Here’s the first list: Don’t include a real photo on your profile. Don’t include your real name on your profile! Show that you following thousands of others, but have made only three updates, or worse still, none at all! Have … Read more

Why Does My Plurk Karma Keep Dropping

Since I have been on this new social networking site, there is one question that is constantly asked: Why DiD my karma drop this morning? Plurk karma is a very clever way to draw people in every day once they have joined. Different levels of karma have different rewards, such as new emoticons, and different … Read more

The Death Of The Marketers Social Media Dream

Is social media the marketers dream? I’ve seen so much garbage about social media marketing that I’m just about ready to explode, because the concept as taught by many is a farce. A lot of material has been produced by people who really don’t have much of an idea about the topic. This stuff gets … Read more