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Empire Avenue – The Thinking Person’s Farmville?

by TheSourceress on June 8, 2011

{EAV_BLOG_VER:b864c0af18ce0675} This code should let me add this blog to my Empire Avenue profile.

What’s Empire Avenue then?
Empire Avenue is the Social Media Exchange: When you sign up you are given some Eaves (the virtual currency of Empire Avenue) in order to invest in the “social worth” of others and grow your own.
Your stock price is [...]

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FollowerRate - Giving Relevance to Klout

by TheSourceress on May 15, 2011

I do not hold much store in Klout as a measure of influence, but it can be an interesting stat for statistics sake. FollowerRate looks at your Twitter followers and ranks them in order of their Klout score, but then it goes on to do something much more interesting…
FolowerRate weights your followers’ Klout scores according [...]

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Twitter and Foursquare - Time For A Rule

by TheSourceress on April 23, 2011

I have vague guidelines that help me decide who to connect with on various Social platforms. I make these guidelines visible here on my blog in the Contact and Connect section so that anyone looking to interact with me knows what I am and am not comfortable with. These guidelines are great, because I [...]

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Twitter and LinkedIn – The Other Problem

by TheSourceress on April 11, 2011

I have seen a lot written about publishing ALL your Twitter updates to LinkedIn and how much it gets on everybody’s nerves. All those hashtags and retweets on the LinkedIn homepage must be really confusing to a non-Twitter user.
What about the other side of the coin, do ALL your Twitter updates come via LinkedIn?
If you [...]

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It can be tough to get your point across on Twitter in just 140 characters. Services like twitlonger and deck.ly seem to be proving unpopular. People don’t want to click a link just to read the last three words of your tweet, no matter how insightful it is.

So it is very important that you fit [...]

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Twestival Local 2011

by TheSourceress on March 6, 2011

If you are on Twitter as much as I am you cannot have missed the fact that it is Twestival season.

What is a Twestival?
If you joined Twitter in the last twelve months though, you might not know what a Twestival is.
A Twestival is a charity event organised by the Twitter community. There are two different [...]

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I think what I was really trying to say at SourceCon last week was that when you stop thinking of online and offline activity as separate, magical things can happen.
Real World Sourcing
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When you meet the people you have known online for a while in real life, it is so much easier than [...]

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