Posted on Wednesday, 17th December 2008 by Bill Bean

C.S. Lewis said, “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one” Nicki asked me, via Twitter, what I considered to be the criteria for a site or an application to be social networking.  Unfortunately, that question came too late in the [...]

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Posted on Sunday, 14th December 2008 by Bill Bean

How To Build Your Twitter Community and How NOT To Build Your Twitter Community from Masheable. Very helpful.  I shall dutifully comply.

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Posted on Sunday, 7th December 2008 by Bill Bean

Update on my use of Tweetdeck.  I like some of its features but apparently do not have the aptitude to get all the settings right. After clearing all read tweets, REPLIES for instance, they return whenever I close and reopen Tweetdeck.  Why do they not stay cleared? I do like being able to create groups [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 3rd December 2008 by Bill Bean

The Wall Street Journal has published a great overview of Twitter.  I’ve included the whole article without images. Birds of a Feather Twitter Together Social-Networking Service Connects Followers, Not Friends, on PCs and Mobile Phones By KATHERINE BOEHRET If you’ve heard of Twitter but don’t exactly know what it is or how it works, you’re [...]

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Posted on Sunday, 30th November 2008 by Bill Bean

I found this fascinating quote today: Twitter should be about crafting your own experience. Not unlike a real, live social situation, conversations ebb and flow on Twitter. Sometimes you’ll find yourself at the party, drifting in and out of smaller groups. Some you go back to with frequency, others you don’t. It’s purely a matter [...]

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