July 2011
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June 2011
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Social Media Etiquette 101: Retweet Overkill
In a previous post, Social Media Etiquette 101: The Beauty of the Retweet, I discussed why it is imperative for social media users to give credit where credit is due. I discussed that this sort of interaction, and not stealing the credit, is what has caused social media to thrive in its early days. It brings together the community with a simple gesture of tipping your hat toward others.
The good...
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Instagram: Why You Should Care And How To Use It
Instagram has been growing very quickly, adding features often and scaling comfortably. But some are brushing aside the photo sharing service, not fully understanding why they should be using it. No, it’s not just another photo service. It’s a community. Yes, it has great filters to throw on pictures quickly that can be exported to other social media websites, but there is so much more to it....
May 2011
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Social Media Etiquette 101: The Beauty of the...
You can call it karma. You can call it being nice. But I would even go as far as calling it common courtesy. Something that is being lost in the explosion of social media is social media etiquette; which is unfortunate, because it’s part of the reason why we have some so far and so fast.
Having lived and breathed social media — as well as other internet innovations — for well over a...
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Welcome To My New Home
Back in 2005, I was forced to take “JoshMcConnell.net” since someone else had the coveted “.com” domain. I was bummed, but moved on. The good news, however, is that I was finally able to take over JoshMcConnell.com in November 2010 and now I’m finally putting it to use.
Despite using Tumblr off and on since its creation in 2007, I have decided to use it as the...