How to Embed a Tweet In Your Blog Post

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If you look at the bottom of this post, you will see an embedded Tweet. The purpose of embedding a tweet is to make it easier for your readers to follow you on Twitter, and to retweet or favorite your post. You want people to share your articles, and they want to share them! But you have to make it easy for them to do so. First, head over to Twitter (of course). Then open the blog post you … [Read more...]

7 Basic Terms for the Twitter Newbie

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I've received a few emails in the last week or two about Twitter. Simply put, some people just don't understand this social network at all - but they know it can be a powerful tool for their business, so they want to get started.  Setting up an account is fairly straightforward, so let's start with some basic Twitter terms you should know. I'm assuming you have Facebook, so I'm going to try and … [Read more...]

What is Klout and How Do I Get Some?

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What exactly is Klout and why does it matter? Klout measures influence across the social web. Once you sign up for Klout, you are assigned a Klout Score from 1 to 100 based on your ability to drive action. Klout then finds your most influential topics, your influencers, who you influence, as well as other stats surrounding your influence. Think of it as a social credit score, or street cred for … [Read more...]

8 Twitter Tools To Help Build Your Business

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Yikes! There are tons of articles talking about all the great tools to use with Twitter. How do you know which ones to use? TweetLater – TweetLater lets you schedule your tweets for a later date (or time), which means you can schedule your tweets for the week on Sunday and not have to worry about them again until next Sunday. Also handles multiple accounts. Tweetbeep – Get Twitter … [Read more...]

What is Social Networking and How Do I Use It?

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Social networking is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities.  (wikipedia) With social networking, it's easy to do many things: Get together with groups of your friends online from all over the world. Make new friends, by introducing yourself … [Read more...]