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Finding Your Voice: Post Workshop Materials

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Vine of cardsorting exercise courtesy E.Louis Larson What a lot of good discussion and hands-on work we had at the Finding Your Voice: A Social Media Content Development Workshop, hosted by HandsOn Tech, part of Pittsburgh Cares, and Google Pittsburgh. I hope you found the presentation and the card sorting exercise helpful, and I hope […]

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Blog Syndication Refresher

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With the impending demise of Google Reader, I decided it was time to check my personal blog syndication setup to make sure my posts were being pushed to my favorite social media outlets.

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How To Use Google Analytics Content Experiments to Optimize Your Sales Funnel

Is Facebook suppressing views of status updates that haven’t been paid/promoted?

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Is Facebook suppressing views of free posts? I recently tried a little experiment. I paid Facebook $7 to promote my column to my friends using the company’s sponsored advertising tool. To my surprise, I saw a 1,000 percent increase in the interaction on a link I posted, which had 130 likes and 30 reshares in […]

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Cynthia on Awesomecast tonight

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UPDATE: Watch the 2/26/2013 episode of Awesomecast on YouTube. Tonight I have the distinct pleasure of being a guest on the nerdy/techy/funny podcast Awesomecast. You can watch Awesomecast live starting at 7pm, and then watch or listen to replay after replay to your heart’s content on the Awesomecast website.

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Dear Facebook friend: Don’t expect me to manage your online privacy for you

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There’s nothing like waking up in the morning to Facebook notifying you that a friend has tagged you in a photo with your ex- from three relationships ago with the caption “True love 4evah!”  Or perhaps you’ve been tagged in the comments of a post that’s become uncomfortably political.  Or maybe your friend’s recent post […]

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