In the previous two blog posts I wrote about Facebook’s unwritten rules which, if broken, can get you banned from Facebook. In today’s post I’m wrapping up this series with some additional thoughts on the subject. Getting Banned Isn’t the Only Issue If you follow ethical networking strategies on Facebook and focus on quality rather […]
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Yesterday I wrote about things you might do that could get you banned from Facebook. The main reasons people seem to be getting banned is not that they are doing specific actions, but they are doing them too much. So how much is too much? That’s the rub. There doesn’t appear to be a permanent
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Monday morning I saw a Tweet from internet marketer Kathleen Gage; she’d been banned from Facebook. I was surprised to say the least. I know there are spammers and unethical types on Facebook and elsewhere on the web, but Kathleen isn’t one of them. I’m connected to her in multiple social media sites and know
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Sunday night I was watching Conan O’Brien on Inside the Actor’s Studio. During the interview Conan talked about how as a university student he plastered the campus with caricatures of himself. When people asked him why, he told them it was advanced advertising for the Conan O’Brien Show he planned to have some day. The
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This week’s host of the Blogging Boomers Carnival is Barbara Weibel at Hole in the Donut blog. Barbara’s personal story is one that many baby boomer entrepreneurs can relate to. After years of working in jobs that paid the bills but didn’t inspire, an outside event forced her to take a closer look at her
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I assume that anyone who is blogging wants to build traffic – increase readers. And if you’re blogging for business, not for pleasure, there’s nothing to assume. But not all blog posts are created equal. Some get tons of traffic and some are ignored. Some ignite a ton of comments and some leave you wondering
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Since I’m new to social bookmarking myself, I thought I’d ask my LinkedIn network for their thoughts. As always, I got some great ideas from them, including strategies I might not have thought up myself. On of the main uses of social bookmarking is sharing of links. Whether it’s for people using multiple computers (one
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Like all things social media, social bookmarking is something I have known about for a while but have hesitated using because I didn’t really understand it. However recently a few friends have convinced me of the benefits. I’ve spent some time using both Delicious (formerly Del.icio.us) and StumbleUpon, added plug-ins for both sites to my
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Thanks to Janet Barclay’s Tweet this morning, I’ve discovered an interesting new tool called Loaded Web. The folks at Loaded Web are “trying to be the first purely geo-based blog directory. This means we want to organize blogs primarily by geography – where the blogger is from.” They are doing the same for Twitter. Why
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This week’s host of the Blogging Boomers Carnival is Dina at This Marriage Thing. Dina writes about the ups and downs of marriage in your boomer years. In addition to Dina, this week’s Blogging Boomers Carnival includes posts about Barbara Weibel’s foray into opera, alternatives to the middle-aged mini skirt, moving away from anger, responsiblity
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