Social Media Roundup: Toluu, FriendFeed, and Twhirl Updates
Services are updating like crazy this week! The new updates should keep fans and users excited for the rest of the week and also help with user productivity. Here’s a look at the recent changes from some of my favorite services. Toluu Adds More Tabs Toluu, my favorite social RSS discovery service, has rolled […]
Read moreMy Blogging Burnout Experience
For the past week I’ve been experiencing blogger burnout. Keeping up with blogging is a tough thing to do. My biggest problem was having nothing to say that hadn’t already been said. I don’t blog just for the sake of putting up a post. I like to have something to contribute and lately, there’s been […]
Read moreFriendFeed Gets Personal and More Manageable
Last night, FriendFeed quietly released another cool feature: personalized recommendations. You know how Benjamin Golub created the FriendFeed Shared Items filter using RSSmeme? If you haven’t, the filter tracks the most shared items within your FriendFeed network? Personalized recommendations is an expansion on that same concept. So, instead of seeing what the most popular shared […]
Read moreMoney Should Never Motivate You
One of my friends posed a question today: Does money motivate you to blog? Everyone’s different. Some people have to pay the bills. I don’t really have that kind of financial responsibility. I’m single, with no kids, and I don’t spend money getting my hair and nails done every two weeks. So money isn’t really […]
Read moreSocial Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used
To Sarah Perez: You’re right, real people don’t have time for social media. In fact, real people, especially the ones that work at my university, don’t have time for the web period. My University Is Not Into Social Media nor the Web Itself Yesterday, I received a hard and shocking slap back to reality. I’m […]
Read moreComments: Are They For The Author Or The Audience?
Everyday we crank out posts for readers to respond. We try to contribute to the conversation. We aim to solve a problem or have a problem solved for us by our readers. Everyday. The overall point is to receive feedback among other things. Can we all agree with that?Yet, there’s a huge stir about conversation […]
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