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It’s pretty rare for business objectives to not have anything to do with socialness. I mean, influencing other humans seems to be a pretty big part of human interaction. These articles are about tools and techniques involving online social behavior influencing stuff.

How to delete tags in Gist (some of the time)

I’m making this tutorial because I’m in the process of removing everything from my Gist account. Not because I’m leaving Gist–not by a long shot. But because I had tried to make Gist do a lot more than it was good at. Since Gist doesn’t have a category feature, I tried to make the tagging [...]

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Following channels is like chasing shadows.

How do I keep up with all the changes in social media sites and channels?

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Notes on Mitch Joel presentation in Burlington, VT: Doom on agencies that just start with pretty websites.

What does Mitch Joel have to say about getting started in social media? Or what about companies that don’t consider analytics early in their process?

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New Thoughtfaucet homepage: 30% discount?!?

The Thoughtfaucet home page looks funny? Have you been hacked?

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The difference between social media and collaboration

Image by Trypode via Flickr We’ve been reading and creating a lot of chatter about “social media” for the past few years. And for the past year it’s been incessant non-stop cacophony about Twitter and Facebook and gurus and is-blogging-relevant-anymore and Foursquare and so on. Non-stop. In all that chatter it’s been easy to miss [...]

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Adding the Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress site.

How do I install the Facebook Like button on Wordpress?

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Follow Friday: Sarah Faye Cohen

Librarians have been solving information-related problems since 300 B.C. Perhaps it’s time to follow one.

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Gahlord Dewald speaking at BuzzRE Orange County

Gahlord Dewald heads to the OC for a few days.

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Organizational Readiness in Social Media: 4 Core Tasks

What four things result in 80% of an organization’s success in social media?

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Observing Satisfaction on Twitter

Image by gahlord via Flickr For those of you who have reviewed my slide presentation on using web analytics with social media, you’ll notice that I have a minor addition to the usual Reach-Acquisition-Conversion consumer behavior model. That addition is Satisfaction. With social media, the customer’s ability to express satisfaction is significantly increased and also [...]

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