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Perplexin’ With This Wiexin
Well… actually it is pronounced (way-shin), but what is it about this app that is so appealing and what can we learn from it? To understand what this app is doing that we should do if we want to better utilize social media to reach fans and others; we must first look at what they’re doing. They strive to understand their audience. Wait… what? They want to know their audience? Yes, they do… Not only that, they try to accommodate them so they never need to leave the app to find whatever it is they’re trying to do. They introduce new functions or campaigns to try and satisfy their audience.…
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Orkut (no catchy title here)
No matter how hard I tried I could not find a catchy title for this post. I guess it’s just as well because there is no Orkut anymore. What? You never heard of Orkut? This was Orkut, originally put out there by Google after Friendster wouldn’t sell to them, (probably should have — oh well, hindsight and all). It emerged about a year before Facebook. Looks kinda similar, doesn’t it? It had an interesting run and actually took off and had 1.5 million communities within a year. Did I not tell you? Orkut’s original purpose was to help users find communities by keyword searching where they could connect with other…
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I Like It On My Desk
My purse of course… Does anyone remember the Facebook statuses that prompted women to put simply the color of their bra for their status, or the “I like it…” followed by the location of your purse? The goal was to raise awareness for breast cancer, and it was meant to draw attention and get people to ask what it was all about. The post went viral and soon every timeline it seemed had the same post with no explanation as to the reason why. Did it actually raise awareness for breast cancer or merely spur a lengthy litany to follow about bad dates. Something that we might want to note…
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Where’s Your Eggs?
Have you ever heard the old saying, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket?” Well, I’m here to tell ya’ there is truth in them words. This past week has been a bit hectic. Let’s forget for a moment we are all cooped up like caged animals [pretty sure my animal is a chicken], all of us going stir crazy lurking about the internet and social media like it is our only connection to the outside world. School has just been finishing up for me and I finally got everything done with that. It’s also no secret that I write. This here batch of chicken scratches on the page…
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The Indie Author
Much Ado About Self-Publishing Writing in the indie world is an uphill climb. Many excellent writers, glorious storytellers with magical mysteries flowing onto pages, are never seen. Manuscripts being sent for review with high hopes. The only response received… rejection after rejection. Dashing hopes, and sometimes silencing dreams for good, these struggles plague many authors.
