Today, as I churned my small list of people I follow on Twitter (where my “Rule of Forty” remains a guideline), I mused about what makes me decide if I should keep following someone.
I came up with some interesting conclusions:

I follow people on Twitter to connect. Not just so I can brag about how […]

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Credit for this tip goes to Ed Dale - join his ‘30 Day Challenge’, it’s free!

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If you’ve used Twitter, the micro-blogging platform that radically altered the way a lot of online communication takes place today, you’ll know that right at the top of the page, you get asked the question:
What are you doing?
The idea being that you answer it in the box - and publish your ‘tweet’.
Well, with the frequent […]

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Recently, I wrote a short article called ‘17 POWER Tips For StumbleUpon Beginners’. It was a hit with many readers, some of whom have started using Stumble Upon more actively after going through it.
In 48 hours, this article was read by 749 people. It was ’stumbled’ by 43 fans. 7 people reviewed […]

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It’s the almost universal response when people first hear about Twitter, the micro-blogging social network that’s the taking the Net by storm.
Even as the service nears signing up its 1 millionth user, many web surfers aren’t sure what exactly is the nature of the beast called Twitter.
Twitter is a CONNECTOR

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Where else can you […]

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Here’s one way to integrate your activities across various social media properties and networks, so that each leverages another and gets you incremental value from whatever you do in this space.
I use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon and blogging as my primary social networking activities at this moment - and here’s how I’ve set them up […]

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Over the last 10 days, I’ve set up a profile on Facebook and grown it to include 347 ‘Friends. And also done it on LinkedIn, where I now have 47 ‘Connections’. I have posted close to two hundred times on Twitter and grown my ‘Following’ from 470 to 548.
So was I existing entirely […]

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I’m exploring a new browser called FLOCK
And I’m posting this note from within my Flock browser - which automatically integrates with this blog!
It even taps into my Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Yahoo Mail accounts, conveniently presenting information from across each of these services in one integrated browser window.
This sure sounds exciting, and I’ll post a […]

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Over dinner, I had a flash of insight.
I understood what my ‘problem’ was.
I lose interest in things - BEFORE they become mainstream.
And so, I don’t profit from trends I notice and explore far ahead of a crowd.
I first started blogging in 2001. By 2003, I was convinced this trend was catching fire. […]

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Yes, I do.

The overall sentiment on ‘drmani’ at Twitter is great
How’s yours?  Take a look and see.

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