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Social Media: Too Much of a Good Thing?

I’m honored to be hosting this week’s #socialmedia chat on Tuesday at noon Central time. Our topic is Determining the Tipping Point in Social Media. Be forewarned that I don’t have a definitive answer, but I’m acutely aware of the questions and always in pursuit of ways to enable companies to effectively manage their social media [...]

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Use Facebook Friend Lists to Create Custom News Feeds

I’ve recorded a short screencast (just under 3 minutes) to show how to create and use Friend Lists on Facebook. Each friend list you create has its own news feed, which allows you to keep up with people whose updates tend to get lost on your home page news feed. For example, I have 700+ friends [...]

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Site Downtime Expected

Note from admin: We are currently in the process of transferring our EveryDotConnects.com domain to a new registrar.  Due to the way this works, the site could be closed for a few hours one day this week.  We apologize in advanced for the inconvenience.

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Hawaii Tourism Authority breaks the mold with a bloggers fam tour

The “fam tour” or “familiarization tour” is standard practice by which tourism boards and Convention and Visitor’s Bureaus (CVBs) introduce their destinations to media people. In the past, such tours have been filled with only print and broadcast media representatives. Not any more. One example in progress right now is the “So Much More Hawaii” fam tour [...]

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Social Media Blog Carnival – Your Best Shots

Welcome to the May 21, 2009 edition of the Social Media Blog Carnival. Thanks very much to the carnival “owner,” New Media Labs, for asking us to host. Next week’s host is Social Media Wiz, so send ‘em in. For this carnival, the host reviews all the submissions and then picks the post that he/she thinks is [...]

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