Effective Participation in Facebook for Business

I first wrote this post for the SAS blog Conversations and Connections. SAS has been awesome enough to let me repost it here. So you’ve heard that Facebook is a great platform for business, and you’d like to use it, but don’t really know what to do past the initial step of setting up your

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A Social Media Apprentice

I read a post today by Christopher S. Penn called “Apprenticeship, little things and formulae for success”. It starts out by explaining how apprenticeships worked in old Japan. For instance, an apprentice to a master blacksmith might have been charged with sweeping the shop for four years. In doing so, he would have had the

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Tweet Spam

Spam drives me nuts. Sometimes, when I go into my spam folder to clean it out, I scan through the subject lines to see just what kind of spam I’m getting. It’s ridiculous, and at times pretty funny. Like the ones with my name in the subject, advertising for a product I don’t even have

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