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Data Flow

Identify the roles in your social media strategy

December 9, 2009

This is the 3rd post in my series, “Know the Flow: tools and theory for distributing social media content”.
To effectively share your content though social networks you have to identify the roles of each service you employ. You can’t design a distribution strategy without understanding where your content resides and how it travels.
Most web properties [...]

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Why your Social Media Data Flow Matters

December 7, 2009

This is the 2nd post in my series, “Know the Flow: tools and theory for distributing social media content”
It’s no secret that social media has changed how people discover the web and as a content creator you want to invite people to engage you and your work.
Social media data flow may not be a concept [...]

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Know the Flow – Socializing Content

December 4, 2009

This is the presentation and tools post in my series, “Know the Flow: tools and theory for distributing social media content”
If you take the time to create good content, take the time to share it well. There is no magic formula, only thoughtfulness + tools.
Know the Flow is my approach to social media data flow.
Over [...]

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RSS is Dead, Long Live RSS

July 13, 2009

Why you should dump 50% of your RSS feeds & a few quick tips to help you get there.
RSS is a wonderful technology that allows us to keep track of hundreds of websites without ever leaving our RSS reader, however, many of us have abandoned our bloated RSS subscriptions.
I am one of you.
For [...]

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Prevent your Twitter stream from becoming a flood

February 24, 2009

Loic Le Meur, a high profile geek and founder of Seesmic, took drastic action yesterday and unfollowed 23,000 twitter users via an unfollow script. He simply became overwhelmed with the spam, robots, and noise so he decided to unfollow everyone and reboot his twitter stream. His newly imposed criteria for following a twitter user is [...]

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My Yahoo! Pipes

December 10, 2008

I love RSS and I often use Yahoo! pipes to help filter and manage some of my feeds. Since I find these useful I thought I’d share a list of My Yahoo! Pipes.
US-Cert Combined Pipe (RSS) – This pipe combines the US-Cert summary and alert feeds.
SearchSecurity.com Combined Pipe (RSS) – This pipe combines 4 of [...]

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Toluu.com – OPML Sharing returns

May 29, 2008

Toluu.com – “Import, Share, Discover.”
The function of the website is to create an RSS feed discovery community. A user will import their RSS feed subscriptions via OPML file to Toluu.com then the site will lead you to other users of similar interests and you can discover blogs from their subscription list.
Although I’ve yet [...]

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